Hi again,
ISI are prepared to allocate us an unencumbered class C network for WIX,
which should be sufficient for ISP-peering-over-CNH purposes.
There are some costs involved (below). Basically the options are:
1. ISI perform allocation of IP addresses to individual ISPs, maintain
contact information, etc, etc. This costs US$1200 per year (details
below).
2. ISI delegate the address block and let us sort that kind of thing out
amongst ourselves. That costs US$500 per year.
What do people think?
Given that the use of CityLink specifically for ISP peering purposes seems
to be beyond CNH's mandate, I presume that if we were to go for this the
fees should be paid by someone other than CNH.
Is this a candidate for a proposal to ISOCNZ or Domainz (or even Uniforum)
for funding? Or should we just have a whip-round?
Yes, you may well ask what I am doing messing about with this at 3:30am on
a Saturday morning. That is a very good question :)
Joe
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Joe Abley
Looks good so far. Now we come to the cost issue. Currently we are asking for a registration fee of US$100/month for maintaining the delegation and registering each connecting participant. This is a fee of US$1200.00 per year for the whole exchange and all its participants.
Is this acceptable?
Could you clarify exactly what the fee covers, and exactly what registration fuction ISI performs?
The fee covers the cost of keeping up with the delegation as a /24 and for each /32 underneath it. This involves regular checkups with each site to ensure that the contact information is correct. This works out to be about 8 hours a month, average for a clerk to perform the contacts and followups.
What we are really looking for is a 24-bit block of globally-unique addresses, in-addr.arpa delegations for the block, and that's about it. We have good cooperation between all ISPs involved, and do not anticipate needing a third party to allocate individual addresses.
If you are willing to take on the whole task, then the cost is an annual registration fee of US$500.00 This is to ensure that the exchange is still functioning and meets the use criteria.
Does the monthly charge still apply in this situation?
I broke out the fee as a monthly cost. Generally the invoices are annual, with some on a quarterly basis and two are on multiyear agreements. --bill --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog