for their NIR in India. The third and last approach that we undertook in public affairs activities is coordination.  Most of the activities with this approach had to do with NRO, the Number Resource Organization.  This is the mechanism in which the five RIRs coordinate. Just recently, in a retreat for the five CEOs, they agreed to create a public affairs coordination group. I look forward to working with staff from other RIRs on this group. IPv6 is a topic of much consideration lately and there has been a strong outreach from APNIC on this subject.  APNIC has received multiple requests also from governments and inter-governmental organizations to provide content and technical expertise. Many of the activities that are listed in this report, you can see them on the slide, the APT, APEC TEL and the joint collaboration that we have started with the ITU, in particular the ITU regional office for the Asia Pacific, they have been working together with Miwa Fujii who currently manages the APNIC IPv6 program. I have been very fortunate and privileged to be able to work with Miwa and to bring along some parts of the IPv6 program into public affairs related issues. Outreach activities and the IPv6 program are part of a communications area led by German and also I have worked a lot with different areas of APNIC.  The coms area has provided resources, human and financial and a lot of support to execute many of these activities. I said before, the