[prop-040] Proposal for APNIC non-member annual service fee

1. [prop-040] Proposal for APNIC non-member annual service fee Annual Member Meeting 8 Sep 2006 APNIC 22, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Save Vocea

2. Motivation • Clearer service fee interpretations for future requests • Reduce secretariat staff workload administering non-member accounts

3. Definition • Non-member account • Have allocation from APNIC but not wanting to join as member • Justify historical resource holding, sign statutory declaration and non-member agreement • Historical resource • IPv4 space, ASN’s originally obtained from registries such as InterNIC, AUNIC, etc. • Registration of these resources now transferred and managed by APNIC • Resource distributed by APNIC before agreement was in place (before 1997)

4. Problem • Inconsistent fees charged to non-member account holders • Increased staff time administering billing of 500+ accounts (and increasing!!) • Varied interpretations • Fee collection • Insufficient penalties to deter defaulters • Time consuming process • Variable bank fees • No reward for early payers

5. Existing framework * Never applied

6. Proposal: Introduce consistent fees

7. Proposal - cont’d • Revoke and reclaim resources from defaulters (currently done for members)

8. Effect on APNIC • No direct effect to existing APNIC members

9. Implementation • As soon as practically possible after endorsement by the Executive Council • Modify fee level specified in current ‘policy for historical Internet resources’

10. Summary • The secretariat seeks community support and endorsement to • Introduce this consistent fee structure incorporating account keeping and per-resource fees for all resources • Revoke and reclaim resources from defaulters who do not pay annual service fee

11. Thanks! save@apnic.net