to this week for the most recent six months.  All the EC meetings minutes can be found on the EC website, which is very easy to remember, www.apnic.net/ec. Once the meeting minutes are approved, they are published on the EC website. We have taken considerable time for our discussions for the strategic planning.  Strategic planning was first reported to you in the Hong Kong meeting, which was identifying the strategic issues and challenges and preparing potential responses and positions. We also had a strategic planning session at the APNIC Meeting this week, and we have three points which are our major concern.  Number 1 is the NIR structure. Right now we are in the process of the recognition of the Indian NIR and we had some possible candidates for the National Internet Registry. Having a National Internet Registry has quite a significant influence for the APNIC operations.  That's why we are keen to consider that. The second thing we are concerned about is the medium-term financial outlook for APNIC.  We have already run out of IPv4 space and the influence has already been there, but we will have a lot of other influences from now on.  We need to have a careful look at the financial thing for the near future, to secure the stable operation of APNIC. As I said, IPv4 addresses are already exhausted, and as you see this week, we have IPv6 full day plenary. IPv6 deployment in this region and moreover globally is one of our