[lir-wg] DNSSEC training WHY?

At 01:28 PM 15-08-02 +0200, Pim van Pelt wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:08:34PM +0100, Stephen Burley wrote:
>| Hi
>|     Could someone please tell me WHY we are running free training courses
>| for DNS? Training how to interact with the NCC and DB i understand, but dns
>| i do not. Who made the descision to implement this training and what grounds
>| are there for doing this?
>
>As a former student in one of the DNSSEC courses (actually, I have also
>given one with Olaf Kolkman) I very much welcome the active role of the
>RIPE folk educating the community with new technological features which
>might be otherwise implemented/deployed in a wrong way.
>
>I think it is a goal of RIPE to enhance the exchange of expertise and
>see them in an educating role for their service region.

Then why not give free courses on multicast, MPLS, or XML?


>I must add though, that this course is not a DNS course. It aims
>specifically at deploying DNSSec, rolling over keys, signing zones and
>what you can expect with the (until so far) not so well documented
>software available on the marketplace today.
>
>May I ask what exactly is your problem with this type of education ?

By giving free courses, RIPE is using its member fees to subsidize 
functions that are not in its main charter of business.

-Hank


>Perhaps it is tie that RIPE takes part in more training/education
>aspects such as IPv6 deployment.
>
>groet
>Pim
>
>
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