Pulling down panelists throughout the year talking about what is the most important issues facing the state of the the net. I hope to speak with with as much of you as possible and sit on all of the panels as you know we have some fascinating topics some incredible speakers in the state of the net has never been more important than it is right now. With that in mind, i would like to welcome to the stage, the assistant secretary of communication and informations at the department of commerce. The administrator of the mtia david rettle. Thank you. [applause] well thanks for that introduction, and it is great to be here again at the state of the net, and special thanks to tim for invite megaand congratulations on the Exciting Program youve put together again this year. I would like to take this opportunity to talk about two items on the agenda quick that stand out for me prnlly first is excellent Cybersecurity Panel that is featuring mtia later today evelyn as well as the discussion betwe
Changes that have happened to us and our policy the last year and also kind of scope out what we think this year is going to look like and thats kind of the point. State of the net in january. My name is tim lorden and im part of organization sponsored by jerry who founded this organization, youll hear from at lunch and founded the concept much the state of the net and i want to thank jerry. [applause] jerry is a giant in the space and were happy to have him back. Hell be introducing the congressman later in the program and youll hear from him. Normally it snows before state of the net and were expecting snow tomorrow and ill thrilled about that and the people that can organize the state of the union can deal with that, but today, we have good weather and were thrilled to have a great lineup of speakers. Just really quickly, i want to thank our sponsors. You can see some of them on the screens around you. They include comcast nbc universal, we also have facebook, we have verizon and th
Maybe you have a weapon or Something Like that. But this is a warrant to do whatever. It is a littleknown fact. That they have a reference to keep them uptodate on the technology. [inaudible] [laughter] that violent do violent videogames thatcher remember when she was expecting concerned about the breath of the ban in the statute she made a comment about the clerks back up the chain so they can get educated. And Justice Sotomayor mentioned shes a fan of technology and has more than one device and i think just having that degree of diversity on the bench and technological experience diversity for ones is important. Disney hd or whatever its called. Okay lets go to this gentleman right here. We will ask all of you if you could just introduce yourself and tell us if you have any affiliation and then ask your question. I am an adjunct professor at Georgetown University law center and i would like to ask professor kenrick can you please tell us what is the procedural history of that case .
Working journalists who are club members. If you hear applause in our audience, i note that members of the general public are attending. So its not necessarily evidence of a lack of journalism objectivity. I would like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. Follow the action on twitter. After our speech concludes, we will have a question and answer period. I will ask as many questions as time permits. Its time to introduce our head table guests. Stand briefly as your name is anounlsed. John doeman from your right. Reporter for wnew. Jill lawrence, syndicated columnist. Eleanor clift, washington correspondent. James r. Webb. Mark shields. Hong lee webb, wife of the speaker. Jerry zeremski, chairman of the npc Speakers Committee and former president of the National Press club. Angela king, White House Correspondent for Bloomberg News and former president of the National Press club. Amy webb. Rachel smoker. John failes, known throughout the country at sergeant shaft. Mike deigel
Them harder. I think we would welcome legislation to reform that area. But if we come in a blunt instrument, suddenly recreating the fda authorities or mandating things on the fda or looking for the department of health and Human Services to do things that theyre not equipped to do and then, of course, we dont fund them to do it, i think we have to be cautious about some of the legislation that may be proposed. More than anything we want government to be there to work collaboratively but we still have to recognize the safety and efficacy that American People and most people here would certainly think is necessary for a new product. We want those products out as quickly as possible. I remember the days when we had the first evidence of the aids epidemic and the people that brought home the reform and fda to get some of these therapies out quickly were the act up groups of the gay community. They studied the law of fda and argued you dont need to take so long. You dont have to wait till