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APNIC Document identity

Title:    APNIC Non-Member Fee Schedule

Short title:                    non-member-fees
Document ref:                   APNIC-122
Version:                        007
Date of original publication:   18 June 2009 
Date of this version:           1 January 2015
Review scheduled:               n/a 
Obsoletes:                      APNIC-122-v006
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Comments:                       APNIC-118-v002 was superseded by this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. Address holdings of a Non-Member are
those address resources registered as held by the Non-Member in 
registration records maintained by APNIC 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. 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 1.3 of this schedule.


   
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) = 1,200 x 1.308^(log2(Addresses)-8)

       Notes:
    
       - 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
       - The minimum annual fee is AUD 1,200
       - 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) = 1,200 x 1.308^(log2(Addresses)-22)
    
       Notes:
    
       - 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
       - The minimum annual fee is AUD 1,200
       - 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    Autonomous System Number Fee

       New Non-Members requesting only ASNs will pay the Basic Non-
       Member Fee of AUD 575 and a sign-up fee of AUD 575.

       The fees for existing Non-Members requesting additional ASNs will
       be assessed on an annual basis as part of the total address 
       holdings of the Non-Member.
       
       Non-Members of LDCs will receive a 50% discount on this fee.
 

3.     Sign-Up Fee
------------------

New Non-Member accounts are subject to sign-up fee of AUD 575. This fee
is non-refundable.

New Non-Members receiving the following services are exempt from the 
sign-up fee:

    - Critical infrastructure assignments
    - IXP assignments
    - Registration updates for Historical addresses (Section 4 of 
      APNIC-116 (http://www.apnic.net/policy/historical-resource-policies#4)

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


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

All regional and Inter-RIR IPv4 address transfers made by existing 
account holders are subject to a transfer fee. This fee does not apply
to:

    - Transfers that are to new Non-Member accounts established to 
      receive IPv4 addresses
    - Transfers that are a result of a merger, acquisition, or takeover 
    - Transfers under the historical resource transfer policy

The transfer fee is charged according to the size of the block being 
transferred. The fee is calculated as 20% of the annual membership fee 
for a Non-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.


4.    Registry Database Maintenance Fee
---------------------------------------

Historical address account holdings (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 must pay an annual AUD 200 account fee. 

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

4.1    Historical Address Holders

       Non-Member accounts who hold only Historical addresses and who 
       pay the Registry database maintenance fee of AUD 200 may continue
       to do so.

       These accounts requesting ASNs are subject to an application fee 
       of AUD 1,000 per ASN and the annual fee for the registration 
       record, which is AUD 100 per ASN. 

       If these accounts receive a further address delegation from 
       APNIC, or receive a transfer of address space, the Annual address
       fee will apply, including both current and Historical addresses.


5.    Service Reactivation Fee
------------------------------

A non-refundable fee of AUD $1,200 will be applied to requests to 
reactivate a terminated Non-Member account. 

The reactivation fee and any outstanding fees must be paid in full to 
reactivate the account. This option is available for a period of three 
months only after membership termination. After three months all 
previously allocated and assigned resources are subject to reallocation.

Non-Members of LDCs will receive a 50% discount on this fee, as per 
section 1.3. 



6.    Non-Member Fee Schedule Summary
-------------------------------------

________________________________________________________________________
                    |                 |            |              |
      Resource      |      Unit       |Once-off Fee|    Annual    |Notes
      Service       |                 |            |     Fee      |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |            |              |
   Sign-Up          |    Account      |   AUD 575  |     N/A      |
                    |     Name        |            |              |
                    |                 |            |              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |    Account      |     N/A    |     AUD 575  |
                    |      Name       |            |              |
   Basic Non-Member |                 |            |              |
   Fee              |                 |            |              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |            |1200x1.308^   |
                    |                 |            | (log2        | 1, 
                    |                 |            |              | 2, 3               
                    |                 |            |(addresses)-8)|
   IPv4 addresses   |    /32          |            |              |
                    |                 |            |              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |            |1200x1.308^   |
                    |                 |            |     (log2    |1, 2,
                    |                 |            |              |3
   IPv6 Addresses   |   /56 End Site  |            |(addresses)   |
                    |     Prefix      |            | -22)         |
                    |                 |            |*1,2,3        |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |            |              |
 Autonomous System  |    AS Number    | AUD 1,000  | AUD 100      |
  Number assignment |                 |            |              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |            |              |
    Registry        |                 |            |              |
    database        |  Account Name   |    N/A     | AUD 200      |  4
    maintenance     |                 |            |              |       
                    |                 |            |              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |            |              |
   Reactivation     |  Account Name   | AUD 1,200  |      N/A     | 3 
                    |                 |            |              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    |                 |            |              |
   LDC discount     |  Account Name   |            |     -50%     |
                    |                 |            |              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------                   
        

Notes: 

    1 The minimum annual address fee is AUD 1,200
    2 The annual address fee is assessed as the greater of the IPv4 and 
      IPv6 address fees
    3 Reactivation also requires the 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


7.    Taxes and Other Charges
-----------------------------


All fees made under the Non-Member Fee Schedule must be made in cleared 
funds, without any deduction or set-off, and clear of any taxes, levies, 
imports, duties, charges, fees, and withholdings of any nature imposed 
by any bank, financial institution, Governmental, or other body.

If such deductions are made, then the relevant fee is increased by such 
additional amounts as are necessary to ensure that APNIC receives the 
full amount which APNIC would have received but for the deduction.


8.    Adoption of this Fee Schedule
-----------------------------------

This fee schedule will be applied for each Non-Member on the first 
anniversary date of the annual membership fee on or after 1 January 
2015.