Local Internet Registries Training Course Material Updates

Updates made to the LIR Training Course Material in 2005

The LIR Training Course material is updated monthly. New policies and modifications to processes or software are included to keep the information presented in the Training Courses as up-to-date as possible. Please find below the most important modifications:

October / November / December 2005

• Added information about new service: E-learning
• Added one slide on "Budget & Charging Scheme"
• Modified slides about AS number request
• Added "Flash" animations to the training material
  

July / August / September 2005

LIR Handbook:

• Assigment Window Quiz in Appendices
• RIPE NCC Glossary in Appendices
• Policy Development Process section rewritten

Handouts:

• asused explanation

June 2005

In June 2005, we have entirely re-written the "The LIR Training Course" slides. The reason for the changes were:

• a new educational approach:
  active learning by course participants;
  using dynamic examples that offer more chance for interaction;
  emphasizing on the "big picture", leaving the details for the documentation;
• an emphasis on the responsibilities of the LIRs in the processes of Internet Resources distribution, and in the Policy Development Process;
• a move towards making the LIRs more independent in their decision-making;
• an improvement of the RIPE NCC procedures and communication (transition from e-mail to web-forms, and wide acceptance of the LIR Portal);
• an improvement in the training hosting facilities (Internet connectivity available for on-line demos and examples).

The main differences are that:

• there is more supplementary material: exercises, handouts, examples, and on-line demos;
• there are less presentation slides, and less details in the slides;
• there is more emphasis on the usage of web-forms for RIPE Whois Database updates, and LIR Portal request forms, and less emphasis on the e-mail communication options;
• the order of topics has changed;
• information about the RIPE Whois Database and information about IPv6 has been incorporated in other sections;
• Two new topics have been added: "Being an LIR" and "Policy Development Process".

Besides these changes, we still cover the main topics like:

• clarification of terminology,
• explanation of how to obtain resources,
• efficient communication with the RIPE NCC.

Both new and old presentation slides are available for download.

Spring 2005

• New RIR: AfriNIC
• New world map of RIRs
• Policy development process flow diagram in Appendix
• new IP Resource Analyst title
• "ASN Object" animated diagram redone
• New RIPE document: IPv6 Address Space Management
• List of objects with mandatory org attribute
• PKI: automatic creation of key-cert objects