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Document update ________________________________________________________________

APNIC seeks final editorial comments on the following draft document:

* APNIC Fee Schedule: Membership Tiers, Fees, and Descriptions

The document has been updated to reflect the decision made by the APNIC EC (Executive Council) on 15 April to implement the following fee changes:

- A 90% discount will be applied to the per address fees for allocations of IPv6 address space to NIR members with existing IPv4 infrastructure. This is in recognition that such networks have already received address space from APNIC, for which per-address fees have previously been paid.

- Per address fees for allocations of IPv6 address space to confederation members will be waived, on the understanding and condition that all such members will maintain a single pool of IPv6 address space.

The EC believes these policy changes are a progressive step which equalise allocation conditions among APNIC members, and hopes this will facilitate IPv6 deployment.

The draft document is available at:

http://www.apnic.net/docs/drafts/draft-member-fee-schedule-v004.html

Minutes of the EC meeting documenting this decision are at:

http://www.apnic.net/ec/minutes/20050415.html

Nature of the document review ----------------------------- This is an editorial review only. Consensus has already been reached on the policy issues which are to implemented.

Therefore, during the comment period, interested parties may:

- object to the draft document on the grounds that it does not properly reflect the consensus decision reached in the Policy Review Process; - suggest improvements of any aspect of the document; - request that an additional call for comment be made to allow more consideration of substantial revisions.

Deadline for comments ------------------- Your comments are requested by 8 August 2005. Please send your comments to the sig-policy mailing list. Details at:

http://www.apnic.net/community/lists

Regards ______________________________________________________________________ APNIC Secretariat secretariat@apnic.net Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61-7-3858-3100 PO Box 2131 Milton, QLD 4064 Australia Fax: +61-7-3858-3199 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See you at APNIC 20 Hanoi, Vietnam, 6-9 September 2005 www.apnic.net/meetings ______________________________________________________________________