now break for lunch and the afternoon session will resume at 2 pm, starting with Craig's report. Thank you very much. AMM (APNIC Member Meeting) Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:00 (UTC +9) Maemura Akinori: Welcome back, everyone. The afternoon session of the APNIC Member Meeting is starting.  We will have Craig Ng, who is the General Counsel, who was recently appointed. Craig Ng: Thanks, Akinori. Good afternoon, my name is Craig Ng, I'm the newly appointed general counsel for APNIC.  For those of you who are not familiar with the term, the term General Counsel normally refers to the head of legal in an organization. Thank you very much for this opportunity for me to tell you a little bit about myself and to let you know what I'll be doing at APNIC. First, just a little bit about me.  Although I'm new to the APNIC world, I'm not new to the world of Internet addressing. I come from the dark side of domain names regulation and the world of CCNSO and GNSO and I'm getting very excited following the progress within the ASO world. Until recently and for about 15 years I was a partner in a large law firm called Maddocks.  I'm a corporate lawyer and I've been admitted to practice in both Australia and in the High Court of Malaysia. For the past 12 years or so I've been the principal lawyer acting on behalf of AuDA.  As you might know, AuDA is a ccTLD manager for