Routing Security Training Course

With this training course, you will become familiar with the Internet Routing Registry and the RIPE NCC's routing-related services and tools.

After this course you will:

• Understand how to make Internet routing more secure and reliable with the information available in the Routing Registry and Resource Certification (RPKI) system
• Document your routing policy in the RIPE Database with RPSL
• Set up resource certificates
• Use resource certificates to create route origin authorisations (ROAs)
• Use ROAs in the BGP decision-making process

Who should attend:

You should attend this training course if you are part of the technical staff at a Local Internet Registry (LIR) in the RIPE NCC service region (such as network operator, engineer, etc.)

This course is not intended for administrative or management staff (such as hostmasters).

Course contents:

1. Introduction to the Routing Registry
2. The RIPE Database
3. Hierarchical Authorisation
4. Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL)
5. RPSL in Practice
6. Tools and Automation
7. Resource Certification (RPKI)
8. Route Origination Authorisations (ROAs)
9. RPKI Validation
10. Router Integration
11. Running Your Own Certificate Authority
12. Comparison Between RPSL and RPKI, and Between route Objects and ROAs

This course doesn’t cover:

• The basics of routing, or any technical routing topics
• The basics of RIPE Database operations
• How to receive IP addresses from the RIPE NCC
• How to operate a Local Internet Registry (LIR)

Pre-requisites:

• Basic knowledge of the I