It seemed like a distant hope in early 2009 that the government could revive peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The Philippine's version of the draft agreement would draw on the constitution and existing laws in its formula for granting Mindanao's Muslims' more meaningful autonomy under a new governance structure, but it likely would not expand the proposed territory beyond the current boundaries of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).