mr. strickling, if you start by telling us what it is you do and where you are in the organizational chart. >> guest: sure, peter. and thank you for having me back. i think it's our third or fourth visit to "the communicators," and we always enjoy our opportunity to sit down with you and your guests to talk about telecommunications policy. ntia is the principal adviser to the president on telecommunications and information policy issues. we're not a regulatory agency, that's the province of the federal communications commission. but we do work on internet policy, broadband spectrum, now public safety is a big part of our portfolio. so we cover a wide variety of telecommunications, internet information topics. >> host: well, and i know you're contained within the commerce department, correct? >> guest: that's correct. >> host: let's start with the internet domain, the icann issue. something that you're working on right now is who should control, who should organize the internet domain names. and there seems to be some disagreement between congress and the administration on this. >> guest: w

. >> and we'd like to welcome back to "the communicators," lawrence strickling. mr. strikeling, if you'd start by telling us what it is you do and when -- where you are in the organizational start? >> sure, peter. and thank you for having me back. i think it's our third or fourth visit here and we always enjoy sitting down with you and your guests. ftia is the principal visor to the president on communication issues. we're not a regulatory agency but we do work on internet policy, broad band spectrum, and part blic safety is a big of our portfolio. we cover a variety of telecommunication topics. >> let's start with the internet do main. the i-can issue. something you're working on right now is who should control, who should-o the internet domain names and there seems to be some disagreement between congress and the administration on this >> well, it's a little different from the way you described it. the responsibility for overseeing the domain name system has been ican's responsibilities going back to 199 . at that time the clinton administration determined that the

. >> and we'd like to welcome back to "the communicators," lawrence strickling. mr. strikeling, if you'd start by telling us what it is you do and when -- where you are in the organizational start? >> sure, peter. and thank you for having me back. i think it's our third or fourth visit here and we always enjoy sitting down with you and your guests. ftia is the principal visor to the president on communication issues. we're not a regulatory agency but we do work on internet policy, broad band sru