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This document has been prepared by ARI Registry Services in consultation with Neustar, Verisign and Demand Media. This document has also been reviewed by the TMCH-Tech working group and is now offered to the broader community for review and comment. Should you have any questions or comments about this document please send an email to: ? Chris Wright, Chief Technology Officer at ARI Registry Services - chris.wright@, or ? Post to the ICANN TMCH-Tech working group - to post a message to all the list members, send email to tmch-tech@. 1 Proposed model for sunrise The following proposed model is offered for sunrise, improving the proposed ICANN model while meeting all requirements set forth in the Applicant Guidebook. This proposed model simplifies the ICANN model by decreasing the coupling between the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) and registries. The model is as follows: 1. The TMCH generates and maintains a global public-private key pair and provides the public key to the registrars and registries. This can be done simply by publishing the public key on the TMCH website. This website should be provided over HTTPs using a digital certificate from a reputable certificate authority. The DNS records associated with this website should be protected using DNSSEC. We believe that there are no issues with security of the public key and anyone in the world can have access to it. 2. Once the TMCH has authenticated the trademark information provided by the trademark holder, and validated the use requirements for eligibility to participate in sunrise, the TMCH signs the sunrise (trademark) data with its private key. The digitally signed information is referred to as the ‘Signed Mark Data’ (SMD) and is provided to the mark holder. Typically, this would be in the form of a file downl