for forming this working group. Currently, APNIC follows a proportional voting system and the proportional voting system is as follows: we have seven tiers and each tier has a different number of votes based on the number of IP addresses that they have been allocated, and that's the practice that has been practised in our community.  Even though there is a change in the number of tiers, this practice has been there almost from the day APNIC was formed. The proposal was placed by Mr Pavan Duggal on the Gold Coast at APNIC 30.  The problem cited by the proposer was that a large section of the membership community is being run down due to the proportional voting system.  The opinion placed by the proposer was that many of the members are not able to be part of these -- because they have been run down, as some of the sections of the people have a lot more votes than other sections of the people.  It's an opinion of the proposer, and the proposal was placed to introduce equal voting rights for all members in APNIC. That means it is a one member one vote system. Generally, instead of having the variations in the number of votes per peer, the proposer has proposed that we will have only one vote per member.  That means that if the number of vacancies for EC is more than one, the member will have vote one each, depending on the vacancies of the EC.