Yes, thank you.
For some years now we've been leading the effort to develop new international standards for passports. You may have heard of e-passports, passports with an embedded chip. It's the new international standard for passports. It was adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization in 2004. E-passports are now being rolled out by many countries around the world, and we've been a part of that. Actually, we've been a major part of developing those standards.
So yes, we work very closely with our colleagues in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.K. We meet regularly. We exchange information regularly with those colleagues on practices, not just security practices, but service practices as well. If you heard us talking, I think you would be surprised--or perhaps not--at the degree to which we all face the same challenges and the same issues when it comes to confirming individuals' identities, in great part because we come from societies that share similar values and have similar government infrastructures when it comes to the identity issue.
So perhaps it's a long answer to your question, but yes, absolutely, we do. I would say that we are among the world leaders when it comes to developing new technologies and developing particularly the standards around those technologies.
