ccTLD Workshop Outline
Location: Georgetown, Guyana, University of Guyana Centre for Information Technology
Organizers: Internet Society (ISOC) and
The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)
Instructors: Hervey Allen, NSRC
John Crain, ICANN
Mirjam Kuehne, ISOC
Jacob Malthouse, ICANN
Phil Regnauld, catpipe ApS
Daily Time Schedule Instructor Key
Note: Bus leaves for workshop at 8:30 AM sharp
Breakfast Lunch HA: Hervey Allen
0800-0830 1230-1330 JC: John Crain
MK: Mirjam Kuehne
Session I Session III JM: Jacob Malthouse
0900-1030 1330-1445 PR: Phil Regnauld
Break Break
1030-1045 1445-1500
Session II SESSION IV
1045-1230 1500-1630
Wednesday
Morning
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* Welcome to the workshop [OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint] (MK)
* Registry implementation and functions top-down model
[OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint] (JC)
* Atendees describe their current ccTLD operations (MK)
- Guyana (GY) [PowerPoint | OpenOffice 2 | PDF]
- Bahamas (BS) [PowerPoint | OpenOffice 2 | PDF]
- Bermuda (BM) [PowerPoint | OpenOffice 2 | PDF]
- Grenada (GD) [MS Word | OpenOffice 2 | PDF]
- Haiti (HT) [PowerPoint | OpenOffice 2 | PDF]
- Jamaica (JM) [PowerPoint | OpenOffice 2 | PDF]
- Montserrat (MS) [PowerPoint | OpenOffice 2 | PDF]
- Trinidad and Tobago (TT) [PDF]
Afternoon
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* FreeBSD Materials (HA / PR)
* Why we are using FreeBSD
* A FreeBSD Overview
- Note some differences from Linux
- System admin core topics
- FreeBSD Command Reference:
* Install FreeBSD (HA)
* Post-Install Exercises
- Include install of Gnome/KDE
- Additional exercises for those who want practice
Thursday
Morning
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* DNS presentation: [OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint] (PR / HA)
* DNS session 1: Fundamentals
- Exercises: [text]
+ dig
+ Testing your installation
+ rndc
* DNS session 2: DNS cache operation and DNS debugging
+ Recursion vs. authoritative vs. caching
+ Disabling recursion
Afternoon
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* DNS session 3: Configuration of authoritative nameservice
- Exercises: [text]
+ Create a new domain
+ Set up a master and slave nameservice
+ Obtain delegation from the domain above
+ Test it
* DNS session 4: Delegation
- Exercises: [text]
+ Delegating a subdomain
Friday
Morning
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* Finish DNS Exercises from Thursday
* Reverse DNS [PDF] (PR) - discussed but not covered in depth
Afternoon
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* Global Partnerships (ICANN) [OpenDocument | PowerPoint | PDF] (JM)
* Current policies and procedures for working with IANA and ICANN [OpenDocument | PowerPoint | PDF] (JC / JM)
- Requirements and procedures to make changes to admin and technical
points of contact
- Re-delegations
* Registry Management Best Practices [OpenDocument | PowerPoint | PDF] (JC / JM)
- (DRAFT only) ccTLD Best Current Practices
* Open question and answer session on ccTLD management and registry
policies
* Discussion of infrastructure and separation of services
[OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint] (HA, PR, JC, JM)
- boxes
- OSes
- connectivity
- redundancy
- security
Saturday
Morning
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* Security:
- Turning off recursion on your nameserver - don't forget this!
- Security & Cryptographic Methods [OpenDocument | PowerPoint | PDF]
- Security with SSH [OpenDocument | PowerPoint | PDF] (HA)
+ SSH lab [HTML | PDF]
- Sample SSH Config [text]
* Pointers to resources [html] (MK/HA)
* Discuss Zonecheck [PDF | LaTeX source ]
* Zonecheck for each ccTLD (PR, JC,)
* Practical lab with each ccTLD to resolve issues (JC, JM, PR)
Afternoon
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* Practical lab cont.
* Workshop wrap-up
* Evaluations
* Handout of certificates [Sample PDF | File listing]
Not Done in Class
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* Apache Security with SSL Using FreeBSD [OpenDocument | PowerPoint | PDF] (HA)
- Apache/SSL lab [HTML | PDF]
* PGP Key Management: Basic Principles [OpenDocument | PowerPoint | PDF] (HA)
- PGP lab [HTML | PDF]
Last modified: Thu Feb 22 11:09:23 CLST 2007