bill over time before he passed away, and i remember that i had come and gone to mci left to join bonb kahn. in around 2003 it was clear that charging people for e-mail wasn't exactly a great business model anymore so we shut down the mci mail service, and i got a whole bunch of angry e-mails from reporters who said i have had my mci mail dressaddress since 1983, how can you do that? but the honest answer was it was time for that service to go. so i have two themes that i would like to address this afternoon. the first one has to do with technology, and i will drop into geek a bit. i apologize but it's the only way to be precise. and then i want to talk a little bit about policy. so i have eight points or so on the tech side and four or five points on the policy side. so let me start on the technology side. i'm really proud of the fact that the internet continues to evolve. this is not a design which was fixed in time 40 years ago but rather it's one which has adapted to new technology. it has swept in new communications capability. it has become an important element of the smartphone both