[db-wg] ANNOUNCEMENT: ROUTING REGISTRY TRAINING COURSES

Dear colleagues,

[apologies for duplicate postings]

As a new service to its members the RIPE NCC offers the 
"Routing Registry Training Courses".

The main objective of the "Routing Registry Training Course" is to
familiarise the LIRs with the features of the Routing Registry, while
introducing the relevant  tools and services of the RIPE NCC. The course
also offers practical exercises.

OVERVIEW OF TOPICS COVERED IN THE COURSE:
- Routing Registry as a part of the RIPE Whois Database
and the Internet Routing Registry (IRR)
- Specifying routing policies using RPSL
(Routing Policy Specification Language) and the RtConfig tool
- IRRToolSet
- Routing Information Service (RIS)
- Routing Registry Consistency Check Project

Please note that this is an advanced course, it will:
- NOT teach the basics of routing.
- NOT describe how to receive Internet resources from the RIPE NCC,
nor how to operate a Local Internet Registry (LIR)

The target audience of the course are  technical staff of LIRs: 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 RIPE DB  (creating/modifying objects).

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 client,
- Web browser.

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

The Routing Registry Training Course is conducted in the English language
and is free of charge, since it is covered by the membership contribution.

More information about the  Routing Registry Training Courses can be found
at:  http://www.ripe.net/training/rr/   

REGISTRATION:

You can register for a course at the following URL:
http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/trainingform.pl.cgi

Or by completing the registration form at the end of this email and
replying to <training at ripe.net> . 
In order to register for a Routing Registry Training Course you 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 authoritative contact persons for their LIR,
therefore will be refused by the course registration "robot". 
In order to be admitted to the course, confirmation email need to be send 
to <training at 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.

Kind Regards,
The RIPE NCC Training Team

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COURSE DATES AND VENUES
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             Date:      Friday 24th Janaury 2003
             Time:      0900 - 1700     
             Location:  Amsterdam, Netherlands

AND:
             Date:      Wednesday 12th March 2003
             Time:      0900 - 1700
             Location:  London, United Kingdom

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REGISTRATION FORM
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PART 1 - Registration
1) Your name
        Enter First name, Last name in full
        e.g. John Doe
             Mary-Beth Walton


        # NAME   [   ]

2) Your Registry ID (format: country-code.<name of registry>)

        # REG    [   ]

3) Your e-mail address

        # EMAIL  [   ]

4) Your NIC handle (optional)
	
	# NICHANDLE  [   ]

5) The Course you plan to attend (date and location)

       # COURSE [   ]

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