[6bone] proposal for transfer of 6bone address management responsibilities to RIRs

[Bob Fink]

Joao,

At 05:56 PM 8/23/2002 +0200, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
>At 9:27 +0200 23/8/02, Gert Doering wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 07:18:50PM -0400, John Fraizer wrote:
>>>  >From the ARIN website:
>>>
>>>  "Organizations approved for receiving the standard /35 initial IPv6
>>>  allocation will be charged an annual fee of $2,500 (US). For larger
>>>  amounts of addresses, a fee of $20,000 (US) will be assessed.
>>
>>So go and tell ARIN that you don't like that.
>>
>>In RIPE land, this is not the case. You pay annual fees for all services
>>altogether (which go up a bit if you have very much IPv4 space, which
>>*does* create extra work) and - right now - no extra costs for IPv6.
>
>True, and the membership fees are purely based on cost recovery for the 
>services as the RIPE NCC is non-profit organisation. One of the things 
>that troubles me in Bob proposal is the mention of "minimal cost", unless 
>that means the usual membership fee of course.

It means keeping the cost low to reflect actual cost of the service 
provided, which for the 6bone would be less than normal IPv4 allocation 
activity. However, the fee would have to be specific to the RIR as all the 
RIRs have their different rules/policies/procedures/culture/...


Bob