even after change this may not bring in a shift in the balance of regions. It has also been referred that the counterparts like ARIN, RIPE NCC follow the proposed method, so that is what the proposer has proposed.  Not all RIRs follow this, but some RIRs are following this voting structure. It is viewed that the voting be restricted only through online methods.  Some current members of the committee have proposed that it be completely online, so that there may not be cartelization of votes. Over and above the debates and discussions which happened through this forum, there are three more proposals which were placed.  One is to recommend to maintain the status quo.  There was a proposal, an official proposal in the format as recommended by APNIC that was placed to continue with the current model of voting tiers.  There was one more proposal which was placed, which is about a nomination committee being created to put forward suitably qualified candidates, for the various EC positions, each APNIC member be provided with at most two votes in each election, one vote if they are an APNIC member and one additional vote if they hold APNIC or NIR resources, and a proposal to change voting strengths from 1 to 64 to 1 to 4.  Instead of having the gap between 1 and 64, it was proposed that we continue with the tier system but have the tier between 1 and 4. We found that there is general agreement that