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ccTLD Workshop Outline
Location: Maluafou, Samoa, SamoaTel headquarters Building

Organizers: Internet Society (ISOC) and
            The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)

Instructors:           Hervey Allen, NSRC
                       Kim Davies, ICANN
                       Mirjam Kuehne, ISOC
                       Andy Linton, CityLink
                       Champika Wijayatunga, APNIC
 


Daily Time Schedule                Instructor Key

Breakfast       Lunch              HA: Hervey Allen
0800-0830       1200-1330          KD: Kim Davies
                                   MK: Mirjam Kuehne
Session I       Session III        AL: Andy Linton
0900-1015       1330-1545          CW: Champika Wijayatunga

Break           Break
1015-1030       1545-1600

Session II      SESSION IV
1030-1200       1600-1730


Tuesday

Morning
-------
* Welcome to the workshop [OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint] (MK)
* Registry implementation and functions top-down model
  [OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint] (AL)
* Atendees describe their current ccTLD operations (MK)
     - American Samoa (AM) [PowerPoint]
     - Cook Islands (CK) [List of Files]
     - Kiribati (KI) [PowerPoint]
     - Marshall Islands (MH) [PowerPoint]
     - Samoa (WS)
     - Solomon Islands (SB) [PowerPoint]
     - Tonga (TO)
     - Tuvalu (TV) [PowerPoint]
     - Vanuatu (VU)

Afternoon
---------
* FreeBSD Materials (HA)
* 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


Wednesday

Morning
-------
* DNS presentation: [OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint]  (CW / AL)
* DNS session 1: Fundamentals
    - Exercises: [text]
        + dig
        + Retrieving BIND
        + Building, installing BIND
        + Testing your installation
        + rndc
* DNS session 2: DNS cache operation and DNS debugging


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


Thursday

Morning
-------
* Discuss Zonecheck and reverse DNS [PDF] (CW)
* Current policies and procedures for working with IANA and ICANN [PDF] (KD)
    - Requirements and procedures to make changes to admin and technical 
      points of contact
    - Re-delegations

Afternoon
---------
* Registry Management Best Practices [PDF] (KD)
     - (DRAFT only) ccTLD Best Current Practices
* Open question and answer session on ccTLD management and registry 
  policies
* Registration process: registry vs. registrar vs. registrant [PowerPoint] (AL)
     - Management of the .nz domain name space [File listing]
* Discussion of infrastructure and separation of services
  [OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint] (HA, KD, AL, CW) 
     - boxes
     - OSes
     - connectivity
     - redundancy
     - security

Friday

Morning
-------
* Tools:
    - RCS [PDF | Keynote (Mac)] (AL)
    - NTP exercises [text] (AL)
* Security:
    - Turning off recursion on your nameserver (CW)
    - Security Basics (Longer) [OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint]  (HA)
    - Security Intro (Shorter) [OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint]
    - Cryptography overview  [OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint]
    - Security with SSH  [OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint]  (HA)
         + SSH lab [ OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint]
    - Network scanning with Nessus: [html | PDF] (HA)
         + [Sample Nessus report]
* Public databases [PDF] (not always done) (HA)

Afternoon
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* Pointers to resources [html] (MK)
* Zonecheck for each ccTLD (AL, CW)
* Practical lab with each ccTLD to resolve issues (AL, CW, KD)
* Workshop wrap-up
* Handout of certificates [Sample PDF | File listing]
* Evaluations 

 
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