Local Internet Registries Training Course Material Updates

Updates made to the LIR Training Course Material in 2006

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:

December 2006

• Updated material with the new E-Learning Portal web page (user interface)
• New organisation chart of the RIPE NCC
• New slide about 32 bit AS Numbers
• Layout and style changed
• Added learning points and summaries for all sections

November 2006

• New slide on deprecation of CRYPT-PW authentication
• Changed all examples with CRYPT-PW authentication to other form of authentication

October 2006

Slides

• Changes in slides layout and order of slides
• Updated material with the new E-Learning Portal web page
• Swapped PI Address Space and Managing Allocations sections
• Updated RIPE and Policy Development section with the new name for the RIPE NCC Services Centre at the RIPE Meetings
• Added information about free tokens to RIPE Meetings for new LIRs
• IPv4 and Global Routing Table statistics moved to the end of RIPE and Policy Development Process section
• New updated data for global IPv4 usage statistics

• Updated with new RIPE documents
• Included Charging Scheme 2007
• Deprecation of CRYPT-PW authentication for maintainers \

September 2006

Slides

• New slide on hosting RIPE NCC Training Courses
• Removed final summary slide on responsibilities of LIRs

August 2006

Slides

• New slide about new ranges for PI space
• Moved hierarchical authorisation to the RIPE Database section
• Shortened slides in the Making Assignment section
• Incorporated First Allocation section into the Being an LIR section
• Moved contact person/role slides to the RIPE DB section
• Updated Global IPv4 usage slide

July 2006

• Policy Development Officer
• new ncc-announce mailing list
• new PI ranges from 91.192/10
• updated billing procedures with 2006 data
• only in the LIR Handbook: New section on E-Learning
• only RIPE NCC Quiz: new 2006 data

June 2006

Slides

• Removed all mention of the AW from the slides that are before the AW section.
  (Two exceptions: Terminology Slide and Assignment Process Diagram slide)
• new slide : Multiple protection
• Assignment Process Diagram: left branch (describing assignments within the AW)has been removed
• New slide: Hierarchical Authorisation
• Slides in AW section rearranged in a more logical sequence.

AW Quiz

• Rewritten: Now only *one* answer is correct for each question.

May 2006

The flow of the slides has changed.
Sections 4 to 9 have been rearranged/rewritten.

New sections and new order of sections:

• In section 5 Making Assignments, the whole assignment process is explained assuming AW=0. This will be the case for new LIRs.

• In section 6 Assignment Window, first the AW concept is explained.
  Then it is explained how the assignment process is different if the LIR has an AW. Only the differences to the procedure in the previous chapter are explained.
  a) If the assignment is above the AW.
  b) If the AW is within the AW.
  c) How are assignments made to the the LIR's own infrastructure.

• New section: "IPv6 Address space". In this chapter, the first allocation, assignments and new allocations are discussed.

• Terminology (allocation, assignment, assignment window) are explained now in greater detail.

April 2006

• Diagrams Improved
• Minor corrections and updates
• Reference documents updated.
• AW Quiz updated
• Example domain names changed