Local Internet Registries Training Course Material Updates

Updates made to the LIR Training Course Material in 2002

Dec/Nov 2002

• New RIPE NCC courses: Routing Registry and DNSSec
• New slide on "when is an assignment valid?"
• New slide on difference between whois DB syntax and LIR policy
• Mailing lists maintained by 'mailman'
• Diagram: Multihoming with PA Addresses
• CIDR table added to appendix in Reference Book

October 2002

• Less text in slides
• Added reference to RIPE document "RIPE DB User Manual: Getting Started".
• Two extra appendices in the IR Reference Booklet:
  • CIDR Table
  • Example of a Whois IP query
• New LIR procedures overview diagrams

September 2002

• Splitting/Merging inetnum objects slide moved to Course Reference Booklet.
• Authentication for Creating More Specific Routes (diagram) removed from slides booklet
• Reverse Delegation section edited
• Colour Diagram IPv6 Address Format
• New example IPv6 inet6num object
• More new IPv6 policy documents (status attribute, IXP, root servers)

August 2002

• The Initial Administration section (How to set up an LIR, First Allocation and Assignment) was moved from the slides to the Course Reference Booklet.
• The Reverse Delegation section was rewritten (parts moved to the Course Reference Booklet)
• IPv6 section updated with new policy and documents.
• Three new Overview Diagrams (LIR procedures, Database) as handouts

July 2002

• Updated the Slides and Reference Booklet with new set of policy documents:
  • IPv4 policy document (ripe-234)
  • First Allocation Request Form (ripe-235) & support notes (ripe-236)
  • Additional Allocation Request Form (ripe-240)
  • AS Number Policy document (ripe-245)
  • Mergers document (ripe-241)
  • LIR PARTITIONED document (ripe-239)
  • Smallest Allocations document(ripe-242)
• In the Reference Booklet:
  • "First Allocation Section and First Assignment Requests" section updated
  • "Requesting New Allocation" section rewritten
  • Chapter on IPv6 rewritten

May / June 2002

• Four new slides about RIPE Whois DB authentication methods:
  • CRYPT-PW
  • MD5-PW
  • PGPKEY
  • key-cert object
• MAIL-FROM authentication deprecation phases clarified
• New inetnum object status LIR-PARTITIONED PA/PI illustrated
• Several new slides on Provider Independent (PI) space:
  • Possible Reasons for Requesting PI
  • Three Ways of Multihoming
  • Responsibilities of LIRs Towards PI Customers
• Six new slides on IPv6, others heavily modified -- to illustrate the new global policy

April 2002

• New slide on Mergers, Take-Overs, Closures
• In Appendix: Three new pages showing the animation steps of Three slides in the slides booklet:
  • AS example
  • Multihoming with PA Addresses
  • Authentication for more Specific RoutesCreation/Multi-homing PA
• ENUM in "Latest News"

March 2002

• New animated slide: Multi-homing with PA Addresses
• Modified animated slide: Authentication for More Specific Routes Creation/Multi-homing PA (see also the slides notes)
• Modified: How to Chose a Netname
• In Reference Booklet: additional information about criteria for "Procedural Steps for Reverse Delegating a /24"
• In Reference Booklet: new IRT object. Also new "mnt-irt" attribute in inetnum objects

January / February 2002

• Updated procedures for setting up an LIR and obtaining initial address space allocation
• Explained "AW for Infrastructure" implementation
• Introduced new type of inetnum object: "status: LIR-PARTITIONED PA/PI"