Invitation: informal DNSSEC workshop.

Sorry I cannot make it because of unavoidable family commitments.
I would have liked to be there!

Daniel


  At 11:16 4-2-00 , Lars-Johan Liman wrote:
>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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