the first one on the table was global policy prop-069.  For people who have been at meetings for a long time, they will think, we dealt with this a long time ago.  Actually, you did, and this was a proposal which has been pending approval at each of the remaining stages of the policy development process. It is about the global policy for the allocation of IPv4 blocks to Regional Internet Registries from IANA. This policy is one that has got orphaned.  We passed this policy, it came through this process, it went to the final call on the mailing list and eventually went to the EC, who then endorsed that policy.  Unfortunately it can't proceed because all the other RIRs didn't agree to the same wording.  We are now in the position where this is on the books but it doesn't make any sense, because prop-097 that we passed at the last meeting supersedes it. So I asked the meeting to recognize that and we put the motion to them that the membership of the Policy SIG recognize this and that we think that prop-069 should be abandoned. The process we decided to follow was that it would come to the group, we would ask for consensus, we would ask you for consensus and then we will push it up through the EC and actually take it out of the business in the same way as we put it into action. At this stage, I ask you all can