not have authority to make that decision, and really will view itself as a convener, first and mothforemos. we along with this the process i described we think can make a lot of progress but is it a voluntary process, no one's compelled to participate in that process. no company is going to -- can be legally compelled to actually take on these additional privacy commitments. in our look at the privacy landscape, the legal landscape for privacy in the united states, what we found over last two years was that while we have very strong privacy protection laws, as many of you know in a number of different sectors, whether it's consumer credit or heal information or financial privacy we have an outstanding privacy protection enforcement authority, but we have a pretty significant gap where there is actually no statutory privacy protection for consumers in the realm of general consumer -- general commercial interactions. this is more or less everything that falls within the scope of the federal trade commission act, section 5 authority. if the ftc finds that a company has broken its promise in t