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APNIC Document identity

Title:    APNIC Non-Member Fee Schedule

Short title:                    non-member-fees
Document ref:                   APNIC-122
Version:                        003
Date of original publication:   18 June 2009 
Date of this version:           5 November 2012
Review scheduled:               n/a 
Obsoletes:                      APNIC-122-v002
Status:                         Active
Comments:                       APNIC-118-v002 was superseded by this
                                document on 1 January 2010.
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Non-Members and Non-Member Fees

APNIC recognizes that some organizations wish to have access to 
resources from APNIC without becoming full APNIC Members. These 
organizations can apply for resources and access certain APNIC services 
as APNIC Non-Member account holders.

APNIC Non-Member account holders must pay the associated Non-Member 
service fee before APNIC can provide services to the Non-Member account 
holder. The fees associated with services are detailed below. 


1.    Annual Address Fee
------------------------

Annual address fees paid by Non-Members of APNIC are based on the 
address holdings of the Non-Member. The address holdings of the 
Non-Member are those address resources described in registration records 
maintained by APNIC that are registered as being held by the Non-Member 
at the time of the anniversary of the Non-Member services agreement with 
APNIC. These address holdings include all APNIC-allocated address space 
listed in the APNIC address registry, including all historically 
allocated address space. All Non-Member fees are assessed, and are 
payable, using Australian Dollars (AUD).

The IPv4 and IPv6 components of the Non-Member address fee are 
calculated separately, according to the total address holdings of the 
Non-Member within each protocol set. The annual address fee is then 
charged as the greater of these two components.

Non-Members from Least Developed Countries will pay a discounted address 
fee, as described in section 1.1.3 of this schedule.

Failure to pay the annual address fee will result in the registration 
record being removed from the APNIC registry and removal from the public 
whois database. The address space will then be returned to the APNIC 
free address pool to be reallocated.

   
1.1    IPv4 Component

       If a Non-Member holds IPv4 addresses that have been allocated by 
       APNIC, then the Non-Member's total IPv4 address holdings, 
       including all historical and APNIC-allocated address space, will 
       be used to assess the IPv4 component of the annual address fee as 
       follows:

       Fee(v4) = 1357 x 1.3 (log2(Addresses)-8)

       Notes:
    
       - The minimum annual fee is AUD 1,357
       - In this formula, address holdings are expressed as the total  
         count of individual IPv4 addresses (/32) so that, for example, 
         a holding of a /16 and a /18 would constitute 81,920 IPv4 
         addresses
       - Experimental allocations of IPv4 addresses are not included in 
         this assessment of total address holdings


1.2    IPv6 Component

       If a Non-Member holds IPv6 addresses that have been allocated by 
       APNIC, then the Non-Member's total IPv6 address holdings of 
       APNIC-allocated address IPv6 space, will be used to assess the 
       IPv6 address fee as follows:

       Fee(v6) = 1357(log2(Addresses)-22)
    
       Notes:
    
       - The minimum annual fee is AUD 1,357
       - In this formula, address holdings are expressed as the total of 
         IPv6 end site addresses (/56), so that, for example, a holding 
         of a /32 and a /31 would constitute 50,331,648 /56 site 
         addresses
       - Experimental allocations of IPv6 addresses are not included in 
         this assessment of total address holdings
      
      
1.3    Non-Members from Least Developed Countries

       The address fees payable by Non-Members from Least Developed 
       Countries (LDCs) are discounted by 50%. 

       The list of LDCs used for the purposes of this fee discount is 
       defined and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division 
       (currently available as 
       http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm#least). 

       The discount will be applied in accordance with the LDC status of 
       the Non-Member's economy on the date of non-membership renewal.


1.4    Historical Address Holders

        Non-Members who hold only historical address allocations and who 
        currently subscribe to the Non-Member registry database 
        maintenance service may continue to do so, and not pay the 
        address fee. If the Non-Member receives a further address 
        allocation from APNIC, or is the recipient of a transfer of 
        address space, then the Non-Member address fee will be payable, 
        and will be assessed on the total address holdings of the 
        Non-Member, including both current and historical addresses.


2.     IPv4 Transfer Fee
------------------------

All regional and inter-RIR IPv4 address transfers are subject to a 
transfer fee. This fee does not apply to transfers that are a result of 
a merger, acquisition, takeover, or membership change to or from an NIR. 
The fee will also not apply to transfers under the historical resource 
transfer policy.

The transfer fee is charged according to the size of the block that is 
being transferred. The fee is calculated as 20% of the annual membership 
fee for a Member holding a block of IPv4 addresses equal to that of the 
size of the block that is being transferred.

This fee is charged when the transfer occurs and must be paid before the 
transfer is processed.


3.     Address Application Fee
------------------------------

A Non-Member's first address allocation request is subject to an address 
application fee of AUD 4,000.

Subsequent allocations are free of application fee charges.

The following services are exempt from the address application fee:

    - Critical infrastructure assignments
    - Experimental allocations
    - IXP assignments

Non-Members of LDCs will receive a 50% discount on this fee.


4.    Autonomous System Number Fee
----------------------------------

The fee for the assignment of an Autonomous System Number (ASN) is AUD 
1,000 per AS number.

The annual fee for the registration record is AUD 100 per ASN. Failure 
to pay the annual maintenance fee will result in the registration record 
being removed from the APNIC Whois Database. The ASN will then be  
returned to the APNIC free pool to be reassigned.

Non-Members of LDCs will receive a 50% discount on this fee.


5.    Annual Acount Fee for Registry Database Maintenance
---------------------------------------------------------

There is an annual AUD 200 account fee for Non-Member account holders 
with historical resource holdings (holders of resources that were 
allocated to the holder before the movement of their allocation's 
registration records to APNIC's registry) wishing to have authorization 
to update these database registration records and create assignment 
records within historical resource ranges.

Failure to pay the annual database resource maintenance fee will result 
in the Non-Member organization's maintainer being removed from the 
'mnt-lower' field of your historical Internet resource records.

Non-Members of LDCs will receive a 50% discount on this fee.


6.    Service Reactivation Fee
------------------------------

When APNIC services have been terminated for non-payment of Non-Members 
fees, the Non-Member may be returned to good standing by payment of a 
'membership reactivation fee' of AUD 3,000, in addition to payment of
all outstanding unpaid fees. This option is available for a limited 
period of three months after termination of the services agreement, 
after which time all previously allocated and assigned resources are 
subject to reallocation.

Members of LDCs will receive a 50% discount on this fee.

An organization that does not opt for reactivation of their services 
agreement by this means, but wishes to continue using APNIC resources, 
will need to open a new services agreement and reapply for all resources
required. In this case network renumbering will be necessary.


7.    Non-Member Fee Schedule Summary
-------------------------------------

________________________________________________________________________
                    |                 |                 |              |
      Resource      |      Unit       |      Fee        |    Annual    |
      Service       |                 |                 |     Fee      |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |                 |              |
   Address          |    Account      |   AUD 4,000     |     N/A      |
   application      |     Name        |                 |              |
                    |                 |                 |              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |                 |1357x1.3 (log2|                
                    |                 |                 |(addresses)-8)|
   IPv4 addresses   |    /32          |                 |*1,2,3        |
                    |                 |                 |              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |                 |1357x1.3 (log2|
   IPv6 Addresses   |   /56 End Site  |                 |(addresses)   |
                    |     Prefix      |                 | -22)         |
                    |                 |                 |*1,2,3        |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |                 |              |
 Autonomous System  |    AS Number    | AUD 1,000       | AUD 100      |
     assignment     |                 |                 |              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |                 |              |
    Registry        |                 |                 |              |
    database        |  Account Name   |                 | AUD 200 *3   |  
    maintenance     |                 |                 |              |       
                    |                 |                 |              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |                 |              |
   Reactivation     |  Account Name   | AUD 3,000.00(3) |      N/A     |
                    |                 |                 |              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |                 |              |
   LDC discount     |  Account Name   |                 |     -50%     |
                    |                 |                 |              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------                   
        

*Notes: 

    1 Minimum fee is AUD 1,357
    2 The annual address fee is assessed as the greater of the IPv4 and 
      IPv6 address fees.
    3 Plus payment of all outstanding unpaid fees. 
    4 Non-Members who hold only historical address allocations and who 
      currently subscribe to the registry database maintenance service 
      may continue to do so, and not pay the address fee. If the 
      Non-Member receives a further address allocation from APNIC, or 
      is the recipient of a transfer of address space, then the address 
      fee will be payable, and will be assessed on the total address 
      holdings of the Non-Member, including both current and 
      historical addresses.
    5 The reverse DNS Delegation fee has been removed from this    
      Non-Member fee schedule.