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<h2><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">News
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-07jun10-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-07jun10-en.htm</a></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN's First
DNSSEC Key Ceremony for the Root Zone</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">7
June 2010</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The global deployment of
Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) will achieve an important
milestone on June 16, 2010 as ICANN hosts the first production DNSSEC key
ceremony in a high security data centre in Culpeper, VA, outside of Washington,
DC.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Secure
data center in Culpeper, VA - location of first DNSSEC key signing ceremony</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">During the key ceremony the
first cryptographic digital key used to secure the Internet root zone will be
generated and securely stored.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Each key ceremony consists of
a series of detailed procedures designed to allow the private key material for
the root zone to be managed in a transparent yet secure manner. The goal is for
the whole Internet community to be able to trust that the procedures involved
were executed correctly, and that the private key materials are stored
securely.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Security of the private key
is important because it ensures that any signature made by that key is known to
originate from a legitimate key ceremony, and not by an untrusted third party.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Each key ceremony will
involve ICANN staff together with 14 volunteers known as Trusted Community
Representatives (TCRs). Each TCR is a respected member of the technical Domain
Name System (DNS) community in their home country. They are also unaffiliated
to ICANN, VeriSign or the US Department of Commerce, and have been assigned a
separate key management role within the ceremony. The involvement of these
independent participants provides transparency of process -- a successful key
ceremony is only possible if the TCRs involved are satisfied that all steps
were executed accurately and correctly. The ceremony and its associated systems
and processes will also be subject to a SysTrust audit.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The deployment of DNSSEC in
the root zone of the DNS provides benefits for those who publish information in
the DNS, and for those who retrieve it. Top-Level Domain (TLD) managers and
end-users alike will benefit from being able to publish and locate cryptographic
key material ("trust anchors") in the root zone. The root zone
provides a consistent and convenient entry point to the security of the whole
system.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A second key ceremony will
take place in a second secure facility in Los Angeles in early July. By having
two complete and independent facilities available, ICANN is able to ensure that
key ceremonies can continue to occur in the event of an unexpected disaster in
one location. Scheduled key ceremonies will take place four times annually,
with two occurring in each location. Full deployment of DNSSEC in the root
zone, using the key first generated in Culpeper, is scheduled to take place on
July 15, 2010. Extensive documentation and related information about the
project can be found at <a href="http://www.root-dnssec.org/">http://www.root-dnssec.org/</a>.</span></p>
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