>> guest: well, icann is really run, they are not a government organization, but -- or ntia, which is a government agency under the department of commerce, has kind of the last oversight of icann. icann, basically s all on its own. corporate headquarters are here. there is a contractual agreement between ntia and icann for them to be doing this job of assigning names and numbers in the domain space, but what some people in the international community, some -- there's a fear on both sides. see, what's interesting about this bill is there's the same fear on both sides. there's a fear from those that say, shimkus, don't do this, because you're going to empower the government to say, well, we don't trust the united states, and we're going to take it over for ourselves, or we want it. or there's going to be people like me who say, well, if we're not careful and we don't get a definition of who these multistakeholders are, who's to say they're not going to be able to in this process exert more control or allow some concern? so the bill is really simple, and i think that it's -- all it asks

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