公開議題 資料 5-3 ----------------- APNIC総会でのvoteについて 2000年2月21日 IP-WG 来る3月3日にAPNICの総会にひらかれ、3件の議題が用意されている。 JPNICとしての投票のやりかたについて決定しておきたい。 ＜議題１＞　会費の改定について 提案内容： 現在の会費はself-determined、すなわち会員が自分の会費を自分で決める 仕組みとなっている。この方式を「保有しているアドレスの総量」 に従って、自動的に会費を決めるという方式に変えるという提案である。 APNICの１会員あたりのコストがSmall会員よりも大きいにもかかわらず、 最近Small会員ばかり増えているという事情がこの提案の背景にある。 なお、Tierごとの会費額や投票数については変化はない。 考察： APNICの健全な運営のために必要な改定と考えられる。また、他のRIRでも 同様の会費方式をとっており、方式的にはreasonableと考えられる。 JPNICへの影響については、会費額については変化がない。ただ、 全体の投票数が増えることによるJPNICの相対的な投票数が下がることに ついての懸念があるが、さほど大きな影響がないと考える。 投票案： 賛成とする。 ＜議題２＞　IPv6のconfederation向け割り振りについて 提案内容： confederationがその会員のためにIPv6の割り振りを受ける際の APNICから請求される費用についての提案である。 v4の1アドレス＝v6の/48　を同等とみなし、v4のconfederation課金の 方式をそのまま利用しようという方式である。 ただし、/29以上の割り当てについてはこの金額でキャップされる。 これは従来の提案にはなかったが、一連のJPNICとの意見交換に従い 追加されたものである。 JPNICのようなVery Large会員の場合は、 /48 addresses Total per-site fee (USD) /35 8192 245.76 /32 65536 1966.08 /29 524288 15728.64 のような課金額となる。 投票案： 賛成とする。しかし現在のところv6をv4の延長(代替品)として考えて 良いかどうかの判断がついていない。もし全く別の応用を考えることに なった場合、この値段づけが足枷にならないか心配している。そういっ た意味でも将来見直しが必要になる可能性があると考えている。 ＜議題３＞　APNIC ECの投票について 合計７名のECのうち、今回、３名が改選になる。３名とは日本、 オーストラリア、香港の３国である。 投票案：JPNICからの立候補者に対し、投票を行う。 ＜その他＞ その他、緊急議案やその他の案件が現場で起こってくることがありうる。 上記の決定事項も含め、最終的な判断はIP-WG/Intl-WGの参加者に一任願いたい。 以上 ----- Proposal: Revised APNIC Fee Structure Status: APNIC Proposal Date: 15 February 1999 1.Background Under the current APNIC Fee Structure, APNIC members are able to select their APNIC membershipcategory voluntarily. This structure has been in place since APNIC membership fees were first introduced, at the end of the APNIC Pilot Phase in June 1996. The current membership categories are Small, Medium, Large and Very Large. The following table indicates for each of these categories, the current Annual Fee, the current number of APNIC members, and the total Annual Fee revenue* within that category (as of 1 February 1999). Category Annual Fee Current Members Total Annual Fees*(USD) Funding (USD) (USD) Share (%) Small 2,500.00 326 815,000.00 55 Medium 5,000.00 59 295,000.00 20 Large 10,000.00 20 200,000.00 14 Very Large 20,000.00 8 160,000.00 11 Total 413 1,470,000.00 100 (*) Note that the Total Annual Fee figures shown here are based on the number of APNIC members in each category, on 1 December 1999. Because memberships are renewed throughout the year, and because APNIC will continue to gain and lose members during the coming year, total revenue from this source will never exactly equal the above figures. 2.Current Situation The following chart illustrates the trend in APNIC membership over 42 months, from the introduction of the membership structure, to 31 December 1999. From this chart is can been seen that: 1.The numbers of APNIC members in the Medium, Large, and Very Large categories have remained relatively static, in spite of continual growth in membership. (It is notable that while new members have joined APNIC in all categories, members in higher categories have at the same time "drifted" to smaller categories). 2.The number of members in the Small category continues to grow, even while many of those members can be shown to have increased their address space holdings substantially, and continue to impose a substantial burden on APNIC services. (At the same time, a number of members have nominated larger categories than they may need to, without these extra contributions being recognised). The primary concern with the current APNIC fee structure is that it cannot ensure that the cost of resources consumed by an individual APNIC member is proportional to the fees paid by that member to APNIC. The burden of funding APNIC is therefore unfairly distributed, with some members contributing more, and some less, than their appropriate share. In addition, the future funding of APNIC may be threatened, by the possibility of more members choosing to make smaller contributions. An environmental factor which is also relevant here is the increasing number of ISP mergers and acquisitions in the region. Many of these result in the closure of the APNIC membership of one party, and as this trend continues, APNIC members may actually reduce in number, while APNIC's total IP allocation and management responsibilities continue to increase. 3.Proposal: Category determination by IP Allocations Because of the problems described in the previous section, it is now proposed to modify the APNIC Membership Fee structure, in order to ensure fair sharing of funding responsibilities, and sustainable operations into the future. It is proposed that an APNIC member's minimum membership category be determined by the amount of IP address space held by that member. Both IPv4 and IPv6 address space holdings would be used to determine membership categories, however only address space originating from within APNIC's officially delegated blocks (currently 202/7, 210/7 and 61/8 for IPv4; and 2001:0200::/23 for IPv6) would currently be considered. For both IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space holdings, specific "brackets" are proposed for each membership category (illustrated below). These have been chosen to ensure the following: a.APNIC?s income is maintained at current levels; b.Members holding the minimum current allocation (/19 for IPv4 or /35 under IPv6) are given a "small member" category; c.A relatively small percentage of APNIC members are affected by an increase in fees. It is proposed to retain a mechanism whereby members may voluntarily select a larger size category than their minimum. 1.IPv4 Allocations For members holding IPv4 address space only, the membership category would be assessed according to the following table (which also shows the number of members in each category, and the resulting total membership fee revenue). Note that the Total IPv4 Allocation would be calculated as the single prefix representing the aggregate of all IPv4 address blocks held. Total IPv4 Category Fee (USD) Members Total Fee Funding Allocation Revenue(USD) Share (%) (aggregated) Up to and Small 2,500.00 314 785,000.00 53 including /19 More than /19, Medium 5,000.00 70 350,000.00 23 up to /16 More than /16, Large 10,000.00 22 220,000.00 15 up to /13 More than /13 Very 20,000.00 7 140,000.00 9 Large Total 413 1,495,000.00 100 2.IPv6 Allocations For members holding IPv6 address space only, the membership category would be assessed as follows (no member or fee totals are shown for IPv6, as IPv6 services have only recently been launched, and very few allocations have been made). Total IPv6 Allocation Category Fee (USD) Up to and including /35 Small 2,500.00 More than /35, up to /32 Medium 5,000.00 More than /32, up to /29 Large 10,000.00 More than /29 Very Large 20,000.00 3.Combined IPv4 and IPv6 For members holding both IPv4 and IPv6 address space, the membership category could be assessed separately for IPv4 and IPv6 as above. If the categories for IPv4 and IPv6 are different, then the member's category would be assessed as the larger of the two; while if the categories are identical, then the member's category could be assessed as the next larger category. 4.Combined IPv4 and IPv6 (alternative proposal) As an alternative, separate APNIC memberships may be required for management of IPv4 and IPv6 address space holdings, with each membership assessed separately, as described above. Separate membership fee payment would be required (and separate voting entitlements would accrue) for each membership. This structure would ensure equity of funding obligations by those organisations that require both IPv4 and IPv6 services from APNIC. 4.Outcome The intent of this Proposal is to secure APNIC's future against current trends which may eventually threaten our sustainability. The Proposal leaves intact the basic APNIC Fee and membership structure, which has proven effective over a number of years; and makes a well-defined change to only one aspect of that structure, namely the method of determining APNIC membership categories. The financial outcome of the proposed fee structure change is that APNIC's total member income is increased by 1.7%, from USD1,470,000.00 to USD1,495,000.00. This again is a theoretical figure, for the reasons explained earlier. In terms of specific impact on individual APNIC members, analysis has been performed as follows, on the basis of current membership and allocation figures. Of 413 APNIC members, 103 would be affected by fee changes (that is some 25% of members), and of these members, 44 have a fee reduction (a total reduction of USD 175,000), while 59 have a fee increase (a total increase of USD 200,000). The following table summarises these findings. Annual Fee Change Members with Members with (Increase or Decrease) Annual Fee Decrease Annual Fee Increase 2,500.00 30 44 5,000.00 6 9 7,500.00 7 6 17,500.00 1 0 Total Members Affected 44 59 Total Annual Fees 175,000 200,000 (Increase or Decrease) 5.Implementation Timetable This document has been published as an APNIC Draft, and member feedback sought. In early February 2000, all APNIC members were advised of their address allocation status, so that they could confirm the effect of the proposal on their APNIC membership category and annual membership fee. After this period of review, the document has been finalised as a formal proposal, to be put to a vote of the APNIC membership at the APNIC members meeting on 3 March 2000. It is proposed that once approved, the new fee structure should take effect immediately for new APNIC members. For existing members, it is proposed that the fee structure should take effect from 1 July 2000, after which all memberships would be assessed under the new structure, at the time of renewal (whenever that may occur after 1 July 2000). END ----------- Proposal: IPv6 Allocation Fees for APNIC Confederation Members Status: APNIC Proposal Date: 15 February 2000 1.Motivation With the introduction of IPv6 allocation services on a provisional basis in 1999, APNIC must ensure that cost-recovery mechanisms are consistent with its other services, particularly IPv4. For normal APNIC members, address space allocations have never been subject to direct fees, and it is intended that this policy should continue for both IPv4 and IPv6 services. For APNIC's confederation members however, address allocations have been subject to a "per-address" fee since early 1998 (applied to IPv4 allocations since that time). It is now proposed to apply this mechanism as a "per-site" fee for IPv6 allocations to confederation members. 2.Background APNIC introduced a per-address fee structure for confederations in response to concerns that the existing membership and fee structure was problematic and did not properly account for the APNIC resources consumed by confederation members. The relevant discussion is available within the minutes of the Feb 1998 AGM (Manila) at http://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/meetings/Feb98/minutes.txt The resulting fee structure was subsequently documented in APNIC-074, "Confederation Requirements, Fees and Policies" (available at http://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/archive/apnic-075.txt), as follows: 3. Confederation Fees In order to insure regular APNIC members do not subsidize confederation members and that confederations provide sufficient funding to cover the cost of providing services to the confederations and regular members alike, fees must be charged for the operation of confederations. As of February 22, 1998, the fees associated with the operation of confederations are based on the resources allocated to the confederation. The current fee structure is dependent on the self- determined size of the confederation and the amount of Internet address space allocated to the confederation: Member Tier Per-Address Fee ----------- --------------- Very Large US $0.03 Large US $0.06 Medium US $0.11 Small US $0.16 This fee structure policy refers to Internet address space in general, and it is reasonable to assume that IPv6 allocations should be chargeable according to the same basic policy, for the same reasons. 3.Current Status For the 1999 calendar year, the following table summarises total membership fees, per-address fees, and IP address allocations for confederation members, and for APNIC members as a whole, including confederations. All figures are in 1000's. APNIC Confed Confed Total Members Share% Membership fees* (USD) 1173 143 12% Per address fees* (USD) 249 249 100% Total fees* (USD) 1422 392 28% (1) IP Allocations (addrs) 9688 7429 77% (2) This table enables a comparison between the share of APNIC revenues contributed by confederations (1), and the share of resources consumed by confederations (2). According to these figures, it seems clear that the per-address fee structure is still an appropriate mechanism for cost-recovery from confederation members. (*) note that figures provided here are based on actual APNIC invoicing, and will not match APNIC's financial statements for 1999, which are calculated on an accrual basis. 4.Discussion Although the per-address structure is applicable to IPv4 address space allocations, it is not directly applicable to IPv6 allocations, due to the far larger assignments that are made at the site level. Each end-site assignment under IPv6, referred to as an SLA or /48 assignment, provides 16 bits of subnet address space. With each assignment, 65,536 addresses are available for subnetting and addressing individual LAN segments (each containing many hosts). Because the minimum end-site assignment is so large, it is certainly not reasonable to impose a per-address fee for IPv6 at the /64 level. It should be recognised that while the minimum site assignment under IPv6 is a /48, the effective maximum end-site assignment is also /48. If IPv6 allocations to confederations are charged on a per-site basis rather than a per-address basis, then the total costs recovered per end-site customer will be substantially lower, because a customer will rarely (if ever) be assigned more than one site address. In spite of the lower per customer cost recovery, the per-site charge is still proposed as the simplest structure, and the one which is closest to the intent of the original per-address policy. On the basis of the proposed per-site fee, the following table gives the total charges which would apply for various IPv6 allocations to a confederation member in the "Very Large" Membership category (at the rate of USD0.03 per site address): /48 addresses Total per-site fee (USD) /35 8192 245.76 /32 65536 1966.08 /29 524288 15728.64 It should be noted that as in the case of IPv4 allocations, these fees would be charged differentially, taking into account the size of the existing allocation held by the confederation member, and any fees already paid for that allocation. For allocations of more than a /29 prefix, a fee structure is not proposed, as there is insufficient information available on the likely costs to APNIC for provision of services supporting such a large allocation. However a fee cap is proposed (below) to ensure that such allocations are charged at a limited maximum rate. 5.Recommendation APNIC proposes to apply the current per-address charge to each IPv6 site address (/48 or SLA address) for all allocations to confederation members, up to the level of a /29 or Sub-TLA allocation. For larger allocations, charges should be capped at the level of a /29 charge for any individual allocation which is larger than /29. In addition to the risk noted above of reduced fee collections, another risk is that database operation costs may rise substantially, because IPv6 assignment policies require a database registration for each /48 address assigned. In spite of these risks however, APNIC recognises that such impacts will appear gradually, and can be reassessed at a later time in light of experience. ----------- APNIC Annual Member Meeting 2000 Executive Council Elections Call for Nominations to Executive Council Three positions on the APNIC Executive Council will be opened for election at the APNIC Members' Meeting on 3 March 2000, in Seoul, Korea. APNIC is pleased to call for nominations for these positions. The three members whose positions are up for re-election are Che-Hoo Cheng, Toru Takahashi, and Geoff Huston. Nominees do not have to be representatives of APNIC members; however, only APNIC members may make nominations. Members are welcome to nominate a representative of their own organisation. Nominations must be made using the online nomination form. The closing date for nominations is Friday 18 February 2000. Details of all nominees will be posted on the web site and will be distributed at the meeting. Nominees should note that positions on the APNIC Executive Council are currently voluntary and that APNIC may not be able to reimburse EC members all expenses associated with EC meetings. Where possible, however, APNIC will reimburse actual expenses for attendance to APNIC meetings, providing that these fall within budget and cashflow constraints. Nominees should also make themselves familiar with the responsibilities of EC membership before nominating. If you have any questions, please free to contact APNIC Business Manager, Kyoko Day at secretariat@apnic.net.