Internet Number Resource Management Essentials

Session description:

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe the issues surrounding IPv4 depletion and the risks they pose for the continued evolution of the Internet.
• Make a good case for why NAT is bad and not a sustainable solution to the problem of IPv4 depletion.
• Plan their IP addressing needs and apply for resources from AFRINIC.
• Describe the policy development process, its importance and how to take part in it.
• Describe the structure of the Whois database and its importance.
• Identify the key objects of the Whois database and their attributes.
• Create and manipulate objects in the Whois database.
• Effect Whois database changes for allocations to customers.
• Test their new IP address allocations

Target audience:

Network engineers, IT managers

Presented by:

Mukom Akong Tamon - Head of Capacity Building: AFRINIC Ltd

Prerequisites:

None