International Training Workshop on IPv6 and DNSSEC Concluded Successfully

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in collaboration with Asia Pacific Network info Center (APNIC) organized a world coaching workshop on net Resource Management (IRM), DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and net Protocol version half-dozen (IPv6) at a neighborhood hotel in Islamabad from 18-20 July.

The coaching was attended by forty participants across the country representing technical community, public officers, academia and businesses. Over the span of 3 days, the coaching workshop presented the structures,
processes, procedures, and policies concerned in requesting, allocating, and managing net addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) and Autonomous System (AS) numbers from APNIC. The course conjointly included aspects of the APNIC Whois Database, Reverse DNS delegations, and MyAPNIC address management tool.

The coaching conjointly lined ideas of DNS, its security mechanisms at the side of the deployment of DNSSEC with demonstrations.

The course conjointly provided an understanding and hands-on exposure to IPv6, its structure, operation, and technical options. IPv6 addressing and design was mentioned well, and therefore the problems associated with the deployment, transition and coexistence with IPv4 were examined. This course conjointly included hands-on IPv6 configurations on host computers in addition as IPv6 network building and configuration eventualities. Participants got the chance to figure on lab exercises associated with deploying IPv6 in dual-stack operational IXP/ISP environments in addition as native IPv6 transit.

This core objective behind this coaching workshop was to produce a capability building chance to area people members. it's noteworthy that this was initial such workshop hosted in Islamabad and facilitated by APNIC.

Participants of the coaching workshop demonstrated nice participation spirit whereas acknowledging the coaching as a worthy supply of learning and enhancing their technical ideas. They were of the read that such coaching workshops ought to be organized in future in addition to market and address capability building needs among the area people.

During the closing ceremony, APNIC trainers appreciated the participants for his or her active participation. Trainers conjointly presented their gratitude to PTA for his or her mutual collaboration in arranging the coaching workshop. They conjointly showed their interest to rearrange such coaching events in future in addition.

This coaching workshop was a results of mutual collaboration dole out by PTA’s ICT Directorate and APNIC over the past half-dozen months. Such events will certainly assist in promoting technical capability building among community members whereas conjointly encouraging International institutes to deliver such capability building events in Pakistan.