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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