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In October, 2012 a coalition of the world's most prominent registries, Neustar, [[ARI Registry Services]], [[Verisign]] and [[Demand Media]] jointly proposed two models for the mandatory new gTLD Sunrise period and Trademark Claims service involved in the [[Trademark Clearinghouse]] that differ from ICANN’s. To excerpt their letter:

In October, 2012 a coalition of the world's most prominent registries, Neustar, [[ARI Registry Services]], [[Verisign]] and [[Demand Media]] jointly proposed two models for the mandatory new gTLD Sunrise period and Trademark Claims service involved in the [[Trademark Clearinghouse]] that differ from ICANN’s. To excerpt their letter:

"This proposed model simplifies the ICANN model by decreasing the coupling between the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) and registries. The model is as follows:

"This proposed model simplifies the ICANN model by decreasing the coupling between the [[Trademark Clearinghouse]] (TMCH) and registries. The model is as follows:

# 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.

# 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.

# 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 download from the TMCH website. The SMD includes all of the domain labels (domain names) possible to be used in registrations for the validated trademark (IDN variants excluded).

# 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 download from the TMCH website. The SMD includes all of the domain labels (domain names) possible to be used in registrations for the validated trademark (IDN variants excluded).