In message <3D230C80-E7CC-4B73-9E47-780DF5FA33AC@delong.com>, Owen DeLong write s:
On Oct 21, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:10 +1100, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
Where does the 6K come from?
AUD$4,175 is the amount - It consists of the "Associate Member Fee" (AUD 675) and the IP Resource Application Fee (AUD 3,500)
Then AUD1180 for a /48 each year.
Er - apologies. Yes, the initial fee covers the first year's annual fee, so it's $4175 in the first year ans $1100 in subsequent years.
The point still stands though - that's WAY too much for home users.
While for Owen such costs might be doable, for the vast majority of home users in the AP region the only viable alternatives for internal addressing will be PA or ULA.
This is NANOG. To the best of my knowledge, no part of the NA in NANOG is in the APNIC service area.
ARIN pricing is significantly better at US$100/year for ALL end-user resources, so, only the $1250 up-front fee would apply and apparently the partial fee-waiver for that is still in effect if your previous posting was correct.
Which is still too expensive for the home user.
Even with the lower costs that ARIN users pay, the prices are still IMHO too high for home users to be using PI in any significant numbers.
Really? $100/year is too much? Really? I guess that depends on whether you think addresses are worth more than coffee. ;-)
$100/year for a address block that nobody will route and requires someone to setup the address selection rules compared to a ULA at $0 that the OS vendors will make work well by default.
Owen -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org