. >> host: and also joining us, david mccabe of the hill, thank you for joining us. >> pleasure to be here. >> host: there's an effort in congress about who controls the internet, internet dominance, and you have a piece of legislation that deals specifically with this. could you set up our audience and let them know what the issue is and what your bill addresses? >> guest: well, it's called the dill -- the bill was originally called the dot.com act, and it was about icann's transition of the eye january that functions, who is the keeper of the addresses, how the internet operates. and there is kind of an international struggle, and the u.n. and some people saying, you know, the united states should not be the keeper of the final vestiges of a contract, and we should have a multi-stakeholder approach. the tech community has gathered support for that, and we got involved when the congress, especially the house, have gone on record saying we support a multi-stakeholder approach. i got involved when i said who are this multi-stakeholder, who is this group? let's define this group. at fir