taken on very deliberately and actively. That brings me to global coordination and the idea that we are working in a global area, in a global field these days, both in v4 and v6.  For different reasons, there are serious global factors involved and global coordination is required in order for us to do our work and we do a lot of that through the NRO, the Number Resource Organization, which unites all of the RIRs, but we also do it through numerous other, these days, quite varied technical, research and liaison activities. The research and development area, which is led by Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist, is something that has been really active and has achieved a huge amount of profile just in the last six months with some groundbreaking work on IPv6 -- the monitoring, the reporting of practical IPv6 deployment at the very end points of the network. My plan is to work with Geoff and George and the others who contribute to our R&D activities and re-cast it as APNIC Labs.  It's a nice name.  It's a name that's been creeping out into our reporting so far, but in the next year, you'll hear more from APNIC Labs and I hope the benefits of what has been done there will become much more visible to you.  I think we'll be also very open to understanding what you, the community as a whole, members and others, need and expect and how we can help through this activity in