Trusted Community Representative
TCR or Trusted Community Representative is a term given by ICANN to those who hold the keys to DNSSEC of Internet. Every TCR has been given a part of the master key. The first key signing ceremony took place on 16th June 2010. ICANN has taken this decision to avoid any terrorist attack or any other catastrophic event on the Internet. If it ever happened, the TCRs will meet at one place, generate a master key and will reboot the DNS. There are twenty-one TCRs selected by ICANN around the globe.[1] The key holders are mainly selected from the following seven territories:
- Britain
- US
- Burkina Faso
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Canada
- China
- Czech Republic.
Current Representatives
The seven main recovery key share holders are:
- Bevil Wooding, TT
- Dan Kaminsky, US
- Jiankang Yao, CN
- Moussa Guebre, BF
- Norm Ritchie, CA
- Ondřej Surý, CZ
- Paul Kane, UK
Other members for backup selected by ICANN are:
Crypto Officers for the US East Coast Facility
- Alain Aina, BJ
- Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder, SE
- Federico Neves, BR
- Gaurab Upadhaya, NP
- Olaf Kolkman, NL
- Robert Seastrom, US
- Vinton Cerf, US
Crypto Officers for the US West Coast Facility
- Andy Linton, NZ
- Carlos Martinez, UY
- Dmitry Burkov, RU
- Edward Lewis, US
- João Luis Silva Damas, PT
- Masato Minda, JP
- Subramanian Moonesamy, MU
Backup Crypto Officers
- Christopher Griffiths, US
- Fabian Arbogast, TZ
- John Curran, US
- Nicolas Antoniello, UY
- Rudolph Daniel, UK
- Sarmad Hussain, PK
- Ólafur Guðmundsson, IS
- David Lawrence, US
- Dileepa Lathsara, LK
- Jorge Etges, BR
- Kristian Ørmen, DK
- Ralf Weber, DE
- Warren Kumari, US