<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2012-06-29, at 13:09 PM, Douglas Onyango wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">------------------------------------------<br>End Users which will request IP address assignments from AFRINIC will<br>pay an Assignment fee of USD 2,500 for the minimum allocation size and<br>an annual flat USD 100 for maintenance/membership fee. Subsequent<br>membership/maintenance fees will be collected in advance every 3<br>(three) years.<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>However lower, we see an "allocation:-) schedule" that suggests<br>requests above /48 have different fee levied on them.<br><br>I hope that AfriNIC will clarify as the policy above is very clear on this.<br></span></span></blockquote><br></div><div>There are several aspects to this.</div><div><br></div><div>A. Till now IPv6 assignments/Allocations to already existing member has </div><div> no additional fee associated to it.</div><div><br></div><div>B. The wording in the IPv6 fee table on that page need a bit of cleanup </div><div> for clarity: </div><div> the PI (EU) should only reefer to Assignment (not Allocation). </div><div> The way I will interpret IPv6 only EU member fees here is that the </div><div> setup fee will follow the same scheme as for IPv6 only LIR and the </div><div> same recurring fee as for IPv4 E-U (i.e USD 100).</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/index.php/en/library/membership-documents/273-membership-fees">http://www.afrinic.net/index.php/en/library/membership-documents/273-membership-fees</a></div><br><div>So:</div><div><br></div><div>1. if you are an existing LIR or EU, you will get whichever size you justify </div><div>at no additional cost.</div><div><br></div><div>2. If you are a new member requesting only IPv6 address you will be bound to </div><div>pay the setup fee as described in the document with the same recurring fee</div><div>as an IPv4/ASN End-User.</div><div><br></div><div>I must admit that our IPv6 fee structure is something we need to review. We </div><div>have already started exploring few options. It won't take long anymore before </div><div>we have a complete and clear fee structure for IPv6.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that help.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>- a. </div><div><br></div></body></html>