absolutely as a top priority. That includes also the development of the registry through new mechanisms, global integration, the certification of registry records through the resource PKI system and so on and so forth. But I think what the EC has recognized and stated quite clearly is that APNIC as a registry really has a critical ongoing function and one that does still have some challenges for us to meet. Across the board and consistently in the member and stakeholder surveys, we have seen training, education outreach, development of the human resource capacity of the region, as a very important thing.  It's a theme that repeats and it's something that I personally am quite dedicated to. I'm dedicated also to increasing the reach of APNIC's training activities and the effect of our training activities through better collaboration and cooperation.  We're not going to become a training institute as such, with a huge amount of activities across this vast region, but there's much that we can do in collaboration to gain some leverage and to cooperate more effectively with bodies around the region with whom we can work more effectively. In terms of our meetings, the meetings are also a really important part of what we do and I welcome the large crowd that we have in the room today.  I also, by the way, welcome the online participation that is currently going on.  But in both cases we want to go on increasing the value and paying more attention to