Invitation: informal DNSSEC workshop.

Hi!

First the important thing:

   *REGISTER* BY SENDING A PRIVATE NOTE TO ME ON WEDNESDAY
   FEBRUARY 16, AT THE LATEST!

Now, register for what?

At the last RIPE meeting, I asked if there was any interest in holding
a DNSSEC workshop at the upcoming RIPE meeting, and there was some, so
here goes:

I hereby invite you (primarily the DNS-wg, others if there is room) to
participate in an informal workshop around secure DNS. The intended
schedule is that I (or Ed Lewis, if I can persuade him that this is a
chance in a lifetime ... :-) give a brief presentation on the new
record types and how they work and also a quick overview over the
tools that are part of the BIND distribution. Then we try to obtain
some hands-on experience in the terminal room, by setting up a number
of zones, and trying to make them work. _If_we_are_lucky_, ISC might
let us use the new BIND version 9, which is _supposed_ to be available
in beta at the time of the event.

I have coerced RIPE NCC into providing 10 Unix machines for the event,
and we have to limit the number of participants to 15 due to space
limitations. If you have your own laptop with some Unix implementation
(according to your religious conviction :-) on it, please bring it.

The schedule will be something like ...

When:  Tuesday February 22
Where: Hotel Krasnapolsky, Damsquare 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
       RIPE meeting terminal room

09.00 Welcome and administrativa
09.15 Introduction to DNSSEC (by L-J Liman, or, if Lady Fortune
      smiles, Ed Lewis from Network Associates).
12.00 Lunch (not included)
13.30 Hands-on installation and setup.
      Compilation, installation, key generation,
      zone creation and signing, delegation.
(Coffee under ways - or short break.)
16.30 Exchange of experiences.
17.00 End of day.

There will be opportunity for coffee brakes in the morning and in the
afternoon if you register for the RIPE meeting, as we then can
participate in their coffee arrangements.

Now, this an _INFORMAL_ event of the type "let's get together and see
how it works" rather than an official training course, so please don't
expect me to describe how to run "vi" or "make", or what an "NS
record" means.

Also - please *REGISTER* by sending a private note to me on Wednesday
February 16, at the latest. The workshop will be free of cost for the
participants.

                                Best regards,
                                  /Lars-Johan Liman
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