RIPE 43 Meeting

Tutorials

There will be several tutorials during this RIPE Meeting.

• IP request tutorial
• Secure Dynamic Update (SDU) DNS tutorial
• DNS Workshop Saturday 14 September
• IPv6 Tutorial
• RPSL, Practical Tool for ISP's? tutorial   PDF

IP request tutorial

This tutorial is aimed at Local Internet Registries. The goal of the "IP Request Tutorial" is to explain address space assignment and allocation procedures in the RIPE NCC region . It contains selected parts from the LIR course that the RIPE NCC provides to its members.

The topics include:

• How to Interact with the RIPE Whois Database;
• How to Request Address Space;
• Completing the Request Form;
• Evaluation;
• Assignment Window;
• PI Assignments.

It is not necessary to register. All RIPE meeting participants are more than welcome to attend this tutorial.

The tutorial is available as HTML, Powerpoint and as a zip file that includes all the handouts and examples which are used during the tutorial.

More information about the LIR Training course that the RIPE NCC offers to its members is available from: http://www.ripe.net/training/.

Secure Dynamic Update (SDU) DNS tutorial

The Secure Dynamic Update (SDU) DNS tutorial will be held on Tuesday, 10 September 2002 from 09.00 - 12.30.
Location: Nafsica room.
Presentation: Edward Lewis (ARIN)

A tutorial that covers the issues concerning dynamic update, the advantages and the risks. Setting up dynamic update, securing it, creating and managing keys for updates, and authorization configuration will be covered.

The tutorial will progress from setting up an unsecured dynamic update zone, securing the zone via TSIG and SIG(0), and using the two different authorization policy statements. Tools to be used are BIND 9.3 (snapshot) servers, rndc, dig, and nsupdate.

The tutorial is available as a powerpoint with an accompanying tar file (Unix Tape Archive) of examples.

IPv6 Tutorial

The IPv6 Tutorial will be held on Monday, 9 September 2002 from 14:00 - 17:30.
Location: Nafsica Room.
Presentation:

Bernard Tuy (Renater - G6, France)
Mohsen Souissi (AFNIC - G6, France) a.o.

The success of the Internet has lead to an increased usage and requirement of IP addresses. IPv6 is the new generation of the Internet Protocol. It was introduced to help overcome the limitations of the current version (IPv4). The tutorial will introduce IPv6 and the transition mechanisms that can be used to ease the migration towards IPv6.

Apart from the address space extension (IPv6 address is 128 bit long compared to the 32 bit long addresses in IPv4), IPv6 makes equipment autoconfiguration possible. Moreover, thanks to the very large space of global IPv6 addresses, usage of palliatives such as NATs will decrease and end-to-end communication, which is one of the basic principles of IP, will become again possible. There will be no D day to migrate from IPv4 to IPv6. IPv6 deployment started years ago and several transition mechanisms have been proposed by the IETF ngtrans working group to help networkers choose the appropriate migration strategies.

The tutorial is avaiable as a PDF file.