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<h2 style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:
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Community Representatives Approach to DNSSEC Root Key Management</span></h2>
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April 2010</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ICANN, as the IANA functions
operator, seeks to improve confidence and acceptance in the DNSSEC security
mechanism among the wider Internet community by inviting recognized members of
the DNS technical community to be part of the key generation, key backup and
key signing process for the root.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">As part of the joint effort
to secure the domain name system (DNS) and the Root DNSSEC key management
process currently under consideration, a number of persons acting as trusted
representatives of the Internet community will be sought to participate in the
root key generation and signing ceremonies. These persons are called Trusted
Community Representatives (TCRs).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ICANN will select 21 TCRs and
a number of candidate TCRs. Initially, this will be done on a provisional basis
to determine the approach's viability based on the success of the first
Hardware Security Module (HSM) initialization and key generation that is
scheduled for June 2010. The selection will be based on Statements of Interest,
solicited from the Internet community at <a href="http://www.root-dnssec.org/tcr/">http://www.root-dnssec.org/tcr/</a>.
Persons considered affiliated with ICANN, VeriSign or the U.S. Department of
Commerce may not become a Trusted Community Representative.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For more information: <a href="http://www.root-dnssec.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ICANN-TCR-Proposal-20100408.pdf">http://www.root-dnssec.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ICANN-TCR-Proposal-20100408.pdf</a></span></p>
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