Routing Registry Training Course Outline

Course Objectives

The main objective of the Routing Registry Training Course is to familiarise the LIRs with the features of the Routing Registry and the related tools, introduce relevant services of the RIPE NCC, and explain basics of the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL). This is done through presentation, demonstration of tools, and interactive practical exercises.

Scope

• Routing Registry as a part of the RIPE Whois Database and the Internet Routing Registry (IRR)
• Specifying routing policies using RPSL and the RtConfig
• IRRToolSet
• Routing Information Service (RIS)

• basics of routing, nor any technical routing topics
• basics of the RIPE Database operations
• how to receive Internet resources from the RIPE NCC
• how to operate a Local Internet Registry (LIR)

Target Audience

The target audience of the Routing Registry Training courses is the technical staff of Local Internet Registries, e.g. network operators, engineers etc. This course is not intended for administrative or management staff (e.g. hostmasters).

It is assumed that all attendees will be familiar with BGP routing and with the basics of the RIPE whois Database operations (creating/modifying objects).

Registration

(Upcoming courses Online Registration)

In order to register for a Routing Registry Training Course one must be an employee of an LIR and either:

• be an LIR contact
• be confirmed by an LIR contact.

LIR contacts are those employees of an LIR who are registered with RIPE NCC as authoritative contact persons.

It is expected that most of those interested in the "Routing Registry Training Course" will not be an authorative contact persons for their LIR, therfore will be refused by the course registration "robot". In order to be admited to the course, confirmation email need to be send in the reply, signed by one of the authorative contact persons, to training@ripe.net. Please approach the LIR contacts from your organisation personally, since the identity of LIR contacts is confidential, and the RIPE NCC is unable to divulge contact persons for any given LIR.

Please note that we accept no more than *two*people from the same LIR per each training course. If more then two persons from one LIR apply, they will be placed on the waiting list and only admitted on the course in case of possible free places.

More details on the training course policies are available in the RIPE NCC Local IR Training Policies document.

Logistics

We would like to ask everyone to be present at 09:00 for coffee. Introduction will start promptly at 9:30. The day will finish officially at 17.00

This course is based on interactive exercises in a local network set-up.

Please bring your laptops equipped with:

• Working Ethernet card
• 3 meters of Ethernet cable
• Secure connection (SSH) client
• X server installed (if you want to run graphical tools from Linux server)
• Web browser

Please be prepared to share your laptop (or at least allow another attendee to "look over your shoulder") if necessary.

The cost of the course is covered by the sign-up fee which every LIR pays when first setting up as a LIR. The course itself will include lunch, however it does not include your expenses to and from the course nor the accommodation during your stay in the city of the course location.

All RIPE NCC training courses are conducted in the English language.

Material

During the Training Course, PowerPoint slides are presented to attendees.
Printouts of slides are given as a handout booklet (together with supplementary materials and examples).

The reference booklet accompanies slides; it contains relevant RFC documents, "man" and help pages, and diagrams.

You can download slides, booklets and all the additional material at: http://www.ripe.net/training/rr/material

The important part of the course are hands-on exercises; the examples, questions and solutions are also available for download.