Welcome, everybody. Welcome to today's event. I am Tim Lordan. And I'm with a relatively new organization called the Decentralized Future Council. It's a project of ours at the Internet Education Foundation to kind of put a sharper pencil on some of the policy issues around the emerging decentralized web. And we're just relatively new been around for like less than a year. The council Decentralized Future Council focuses on policy and the decentralized web space. Basically, beyond Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. cryptocurrencies are really not our focus. Our focus is the larger ecosystem of decentralized technologies, like for instance, you won't see it's doing your briefing in the future on FTX and Binance. That's probably not why we're doing it all. And we do this with the help of the decentralized Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. They're great partners of ours. And today's event is we're looking at decentralized domain names, what did the DNS look like in web3, for the type of work that we do, and this is very similar to work that we did in the 1990s, with the Congressional Internet Caucus, and the State Of The Net Conference, is trying to help to explain a little bit about what these new technologies are. And so and you web3, now, you know, you have to explain why, you know, the internet packet switching is different from broadcast and cable televisions. And we have to do a little bit the same thing here. So there's some foundational things that we have to put down. So just Just bear with us a little bit. Most people either on this call are on this webinar, are very knowledgeable that the DNS and some are very knowledgeable about the decentralized web and domain addressing there. So we've had a different disciplines here. But we have a great panel of experts that know a lot about both. So let me just kind of start by explaining like what we think the decentralized web or sometimes people call it web3, what we think it is, and we kind of think of it as a larger ecosystem of decentralized technologies that include blockchains tokens, smart contracts, and we're really interested in like building, the way that developers are building new services and things like that, that really will, you know, make make the internet a better place. And that's kind of our hope. And we're not an advocacy organization, we're not a think tank or anything like that. But we try to kind of have conversations about these issues. So just to start off with, obviously, the domain name system has existed for a very long time. It used to be run literally by people. Sometimes people refer to him as the "God of the Internet," the famous John Postel, who passed away some time ago. And he kind of ran what we know is the domain name system, and ultimately, the Department of Commerce kind of moved that function over to ICANN, which is called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Its governance, it's complicated. It's a multi stakeholder organization. And everybody has a say. It's allowed for a kind of scale of the Internet as we know it when it comes to registering domain names and making those name friendly, and the stability of it. So but I'm not going to go into a long conversation, but ICANN is and we're fortunate to have a representative from I can hear when it comes to kind of addressing when it comes to blockchains and decentralized technology. The same way with the DNS were like xerox.com is actually the human readable, friendly version of a list of IP addresses that go to a particular server. It's kind of the same way when it comes to decentralized web technologies. The content that is stored on the decentralized web often has a long, long string of numbers that are even less friendly in from a human readable perspective than domain names. And it's the same with crypto, crypto wallets where you have keys are long strings of numbers, not very human friendly, readable. So people obviously want to make more human readable versions of that, right. So that's what we're starting to see a lot of what we call domain or alternative addressing themes coming out when it comes to cryptocurrency, decentralized web technologies, there's a lot of them, and not not the least of which are our ENS, Handshake, Unstoppable Domains. And even to a certain extent, the Interplanetary File System. IPFS, from Filecoin or Protocol Labs is kind of addressing literally. Everybody's starting to do a lot of registrations for these domains. And, as it was the early days of the Internet, there's a lot of there's some burgeoning controversy. Last spring, a member of the Internet Law & Policy Foundry mentioned to me that the principal technologist of ICANN had wrote a document just laying some of the challenges out when it comes to all of these different addressing schemes. And you may have seen them on your Twitter feed like some people will put in their their twitter handle .ETF .ETH which is Ethereum. You'll you'll see other things like there's there were there was a couple of .COINs they were and then now there's a couple of .wallets and there's just a lot of different addressing schemes and what we wanted to talk today about like, how what happens, like who runs this? How do these things get registered? What is the, is there an ICANN version of this in the decentralized web? Or is this the responsibility of ICANN and government officials to bring some order here? I don't know. And how does it interact with existing law like trademark and copyright and how do you deal with some of those things? So the past several months has been some crazy things since I read that paper back in April. There's a lot of developments in the space. Giovanna just mentioned to me that at the Web Summit back in Lisbon a few weeks ago, even last week, there was a Domain Alliance announced and I don't even know much about that. So all of this stuff is really new, really exciting. And we have a great panel of speakers to kind of talk to us today about that. So let me just see if I can introduce them and not screw it up. The speakers that we have today are the through our first speaker is Alain Durand. He's great. He is the principal technologist for ICANN. And his name was the inspiration for his last name was the inspiration for the Mega Rock 80s Rock Band Duran Duran. I don't know if anybody knows that. But it's absolutely absolutely true. We also have Chjango Unchained. She's the Executive Director of the DWeb Foundation and Head of Ecosystem at Cosmos Network. And we're super excited to have Chjango with us today, because one of the things that we didn't do very well as an organization in the 1990s, was getting people actually developing technologies on the Internet to actually come to Washington and speak with policymakers. So I'm super grateful for that. And considering it's very early in the morning, where Chjango I am super appreciative. And we also have Giovanna Fessenden, who's counsel at Hamilton, Brock, Smith, and Reynolds. She's a IP attorney in the Massachusetts area, and Tom Barrett, who's president of enCirca and Tom has a lot of different other titles. Chjango has a lot of different titles. But they're, they're real experts in this area. So let me just like you know, start you know, with Alain, I read your paper, which is called "Challenges With Alternative Addressing" it is fascinating. And we'll we'll share this on Twitter, at our Twitter handle, which is down in the left handed corner. Can you just kind of like start us off by just talking about what are the challenges when it comes to alternative addressing in the decentralized web as we know it?