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Featured Article, December 20, 2021

Harald Alvestrand is a Norwegian computer scientist, who is very active in the IETF, acting as its chair from 2001 until 2005, the chair of the Areas for Applications from 1995 until 1997 and Operations and Management in 1998, and most recently the IETF liaison to the ICANN Board of Directors since 2018. He has long been active in ICANN as well, serving on the ICANN Board from 2007 to 2010.

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The Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP Global) endorsed S.3399, the "Domain Reform for Unlawful druG Sellers Act" (DRUGS Act). This bipartisan legislation was co-sponsored by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) last week. The DRUGS Act would give the FDA the authority to “suspend websites run by criminal networks that traffic” illegal drugs.
The Digital Cooperation and Development Forum is taking place December 13-23, featuring Arab IGF sessions, ICANN presentations, and other topics.
The dates of the last fully virtual ICANN meeting, ICANN 73, have changed. The event will now run from March 7 to 10, 2022. ICANN 74 in the Hague is currently planned as a hybrid-format meeting. ICANN 72 featured community discussions on how to implement an improved hybrid meeting model.

On December 15, 2021, ICANN's NomCom opened its application period for several top positions. The committee seeks to fill the following roles:

Three ICANN Board of Directors seats
One PTI Board of Director seat
Two regional representatives to ALAC, one for Europe and one for North America
One GNSO Council seat (non-voting)
One ccNSO Council seat

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