mr. bladel, vice president of policy at godaddy. doctor rosalind layton, american enterprise institute in washington dc, miss zheng, vice president for policy at the business roundtable in washington and r.mister christopher peter, global commission on the stability of cyberspace washington dc. let's take five minutes easily divided between our witnesses for opening statements and secretary chertoff, we will begin with you. welcome's thank you mister chairman and ranking member and members of the committee for holding this hearing which is very timely. i submitted a written statement which i submitted as part of the record. and i should just point out that i served with chris paynter on the global commission on cyberspace so we interact on this issue . let me try to make a few brief points. as both the chairman and ranking member indicated, obviously the value proposition of the internet in many respects rests on its global nature. in fact, it connects networks all around the world and therefore when you have such fragmentation or l

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