[AusNOG] APNIC Slashes Costs for New Members

[Joel Nath]

If its going to be this easy for new members how about taking care of existing members that "really" need more ip's

That's the downfall I see in apnic's policy

It's abit like screw existing members , we only care for new members that will end up wasting ip space but hey we will
make $$$, Jared's classic example

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On 01/03/2013, at 6:04 PM, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 05:47:26PM +1100, Jared Hirst wrote:
> 
>> Sorry I mean people that have <128 IP's used can now apply for a /22
> 
> The exhaustion of IPv4 address space counts as a massive barrier
> to entry for any industry or organization which requires portable
> IPv4 address space.
> 
> I don't see why it's a bad thing to minimize that pain to the extent
> possible.
> 
> The last /8 has enough /22's for 16384 new allocations.  Anyone 
> with enough cash to be an APNIC member has been able to take a /22
> from that pool ever since the "last /8" policy came into effect.
> The only thing that has changed now is that the amount of money
> has decreased.
> 
> If APNIC gets 16000-odd new members at A$1750 each, that's $28m
> in additional annual revenue.  Buy up, Geoff deserves that Ferrari.
> :)
> 
>  - mark
> 
>  - mark
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