Welcome to the ccTLD Workshop 14 - 17 February 2007 Georgetown, Guyana Georgetown, February 2007

Local Hosts Center of Information Technology, University of Guyana Special thanks to Rayman Khan and his team for their support It has been 1 year to the day that .GY has been running here at the University managed by Rayman and his team Georgetown, February 2007

Instructors Hervey Allen NSRC John Crain ICANN Jacob Malthouse ICANN Phil Regnauld catpipe Mirjam Kühne ISOC Georgetown, February 2007

Participants (1) Carla Glinton Bahamas .bs Rudyard Burton Bahamas .bs Marlene Christopher Bermuda .bm Aubrey Pennyman Bermuda .bm Noel Taylor Bermuda .bm Aldwyn Ferguson Grenada .gr Rayman Khan Guyana .gy Khemraj Narine Guyana .gy Shivase Singh Guyana .gy Georgetown, February 2007

Participants (2) Andrew Mancey Guyana .gy Max Larson Henry Haiti .ht Andrew Saunders Jamaica .jm Walter Rodney Jamaica .jm Denzil West Montserrat .ms Dave S. Williams Montserrat .ms Dr. Patrick Hosein Trinidad & Tobago .tt Georgetown, February 2007

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Housekeeping issues Bus leaves Bransville Apartments at 8:30 Flight re-confirmations Lunch preparations Washrooms Georgetown, February 2007

Schedule 09:00 - 10:30 morning session I 10:30 - 10:45 break 10:45 - 12:30 morning session II 12:30 - 13:30 lunch 13:30 - 14:45 afternoon session I 14:45 - 15:00 break 15:00 - 16:30 afternoon session II Georgetown, February 2007

Agenda - Day 1 (Wednesday) Welcome and introduction Presentation of the Registry Model Participant’s Presentations FreeBSD Overview, installation, exercises Georgetown, February 2007

Agenda - Day 2 (Thursday) Overview of DNS BIND DNS exercises Authoritative, Secondary, Zone transfers, etc. Evening: Dinner sponsored by Guyana Telecom Georgetown, February 2007

Agenda - Day3 (Friday) Policy issues Registry - Registrar - Registrants IANA procedures Re-delegations, communications with IANA Best Common Practices Secondary servers, registry responsibilities Georgetown, February 2007

Agenda - Day 4 (Saturday) Best Practices Continuation Security ccTLD Clinic Georgetown, February 2007

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Activities Support for Standards (IETF) Transfer of technical knowledge Education in technologically emerging countries Education of policy & decision makers Manage subsidiary to run .org Building active global community of knowledgeable members & chapters Georgetown, February 2007

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