Announcement
The Internet Society
1996 Workshop on Network Technology
for Countries in the Early Stages of Internetworking
The Internet Society
1996 Workshop on Network Technology
for Countries in the Early Stages of Internetworking
Attendance at the workshop includes attendance at the Internet Society's annual conference, INET '96, which will be held in Montreal during June 25-28, 1996 following the workshop.
This workshop is an outgrowth of and builds upon the experiences of three similar workshops held during 1993-1995 at Stanford University, U.S.A., Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, and the University of Hawaii, U.S.A.
Participants attend only one of the four tracks, since the tracks run concurrently (with the exception of the pre-workshop UNIX track).
All participants (except the National Network Management track) will engage in extensive hands-on training, either setting up a prototype network or using actual Internet resources or both, as appropriate, using facilities at McGill University.
The course descriptions below include for each instructional track:
Prerequisites: UNIX use and maybe some Unix system administration (*); some BBS or other modem-based experience, as user or provider.
What you will learn: Providing mostly TCP/IP based services on Unix; providing TCP/IP services to end users running DOS/Windows, including offline mail and news readers; gatewaying to the international internet; transitioning a network from older technologies to TCP/IP based services.
Goals: Design, setup, and operation of a local TCP/IP network of one or more UNIX hosts to support a regional network of mostly TCP/IP-based services to end users (who are likely DOS/Mac/... based). The national network may initially be connected to the international internet by store and forward technology such as UUCP or intermittent dial-up IP; end users may be mostly accessing locally cached internet information.
(* If you do not have basic UNIX experience, which is a prerequisite for tracks one and two, a three day UNIX startup course will be offered prior to the main workshop on Thursday, 13 June through Saturday, 15 June. You cannot apply for this startup course; attendance will be determined by the workshop instructors on the basis of apparent need for and benefit from your participation.)
Prerequisites: UNIX use and maybe some system administration *; some use of networking, preferably TCP/IP-based *
What you will learn: Techniques for design, setup, and operation of a metropolitan, regional, or national TCP/IP dedicated backbone network. Detailed knowledge of routing, network troubleshooting, routing protocols, domain name system, NIC name and address coordination.
Goals: Design, setup, and operation of a metropolitan, regional, or national TCP/IP dedicated backbone network, with a permanent connection to the international Internet.
(* If you do not have basic UNIX experience, which is a prerequisite for tracks one and two, a three day UNIX startup course will be offered prior to the main workshop on Thursday, 13 June through Saturday, 15 June. You cannot apply for this startup course; attendance will be determined by the workshop instructors on the basis of apparent need for and benefit from your participation.)
Prerequisites: A good user-level knowledge of the various Internet services such as email and the World Wide Web.
What you will learn: How to set up and design quality Internet Information services. Topics covered will include Web servers and clients, search services, security issues, legal and ethical issues, National infrastucture issues, setting up and maintaining quality information services, special problems with servers at the end of slow links, caching strategies and mirroring, communication services and HTML authoring. As an important reason for your attendance will be to enable you to pass on your knowledge to others, there will be sessions on how to support and train users and providers of information.
Goals: Ability to set up and design quality Internet Information services; ability to support and train users and providers of information.
Prerequisites: Rudimentary familiarity with the Internet, and familiariity with management of information technology.
What you will learn: Exposure to the aspects of management of a public Internet network on a national scale, including areas of operational and policy management commonly found with Internet development. No technical or hands-on component is included.
Goals: Capability to manage the development of a national public Internet, guiding its development into the role of a cost effective and useful communications resource.
Workshop attendees who will be attending the preliminary UNIX courses will be expected to arrive on or before 1800 hours on Wednesday, 12 June. Notification of UNIX course attendance will be distributed with admission decisions.
INET '96 begins at 1800 hours, Tuesday 25 June and ends at 1200 hours on Friday 28 June.
Staff members of international and bilateral technical co-operation agencies, as well as professionals having substantial involvement in international technical assistance activities, are also eligible for admission as space allows.
Participants who have attended one or more previous Developing Countries Workshop will be considered eligible to attend the 1996 workshop; however, these former participants must apply for a course of study other than subjects studied previously. Their request must be consistent with their responsibilities in a national and/or regional context, and a convincing argument for repeated attendance must accompany the application.
Applicants will be notified of their acceptance to the program and the amount of financial aid available to them by March 15 at the latest.
Please note that in this context, the workshop activity includes attendance at the INET '96 Conference. If you are admitted to the workshop, you should NOT register for the Conference; that will be done automatically for you.
NOTE: Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit some form of electronic mail address (a reliable telex or FAX number is acceptable) in order to expedite notification of their acceptance as well as any further correspondence.
Please be sure that all of the contact information you submit is legible and accurate, or we will not be able to contact you.
Financial assistance to cover a part or all of each participant's overall expenditures is expected be available to deserving candidates. If you request financial aid for the workshop, please be certain to provide the financial information that will be requested in the application for admission. Financial aid will take the form of either pre-paid airline tickets for travel to and from Montreal, partial or total coverage of the workshop fee, or both.
The overall amount of aid expected to be available will be limited. Please make all possible efforts to secure whatever funding is possible from sources known to you. If you are requesting financial aid, please tell us why it is necessary, how you expect to fund part of your expenses, and what efforts you have made and are making to obtain additional aid. Aid from ISOC may be contingent upon your ability to obtain partial financial support from other sources.
Recipients of financial aid will be expected to participate in both the entire workshop and the entire INET '96 Conference as a condition for receiving such aid.
or sent by mail to the address at the bottom of the application form below.
APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION
A. Personal data
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FAMILY NAME (LAST NAME, SURNAME) ONLY:
Full Name:
Home Address:
Home Telephone:
Employer:
Designation/Title:
Business Address:
Business Telephone:
Fax (if any):
Telex (if any):
E-mail address (if any):
Age:
Nationality:
Passport number:
Country issuing passport:
Knowledge of English:
Knowledge of French:
Please indicate with an asterisk (*) the most reliable addresses and
telephone/fax numbers above which can be used to reach you.
B. Technical Skills (only for applicants to attend Tracks 1 and 2)
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1. Are you a UNIX user? How much have you used it?
2. Have you been a UNIX system administrator? Describe your experience
(length of time, versions, etc.).
3 Have you used/administered TCP/IP networks? Describe.
4. Have you used a BBS? Describe.
5. Have you run a BBS? Describe (length of time,.versions, etc.)
6. Have you set up UUCP? How many times? Describe.
7. Have you set up modem initialization strings? In what circumstances?
How many times?
8. What other operating systems are you familiar with (e.g. MacOS,
Appletalk, MS-DOS, Novell Netware, Banyan Vines, VMS, DECNET, etc.), and
for how long have you been a user or administrator of each?
C. Course of Instruction
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Instructional track applied for (Please select one track; the tracks will
run concurrently):
[ ] Track 1
[ ] Track 2
[ ] Track 3
[ ] Track 4
[ ] Track 5 .... enseigne en FRANCAIS
Please indicate any specific interests within the area you have chosen:
D. Description of Role in National Networking Activities
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Please provide in the format of your choice the following information about
yourself:
1. A summary of your educational and professional background.
2. A description of your current employer, your position, your duties and
responsibilities, and how they relate to current and future data networking
activities in your country.
3. A brief description of the computer systems and networks with which you
work, including:
a. Operating systems.
b. Networking software.
c. Modems and leased line termination equipment you use.
d. Volume of data per month transferred via long-distance and
international lines.
e. Number of users served.
4. How your training and current work prepare and qualify you for the track
you wish to attend.
5. How you expect to implement the knowledge you gain through attendance at
the workshop and the INET '96 conference after you return to your country.
6. If you have previously attended Internet Society Workshops for
Developing Countries, a precise description of how you have used the
training you have received in the past, and what significant advances in
networking have occurred in your country specifically because of your
knowledge and effort.
This information will be used to determine whether to admit you to the
workshop. Please be sure that it is sufficiently clear, well organized and
adequate for this purpose.
E. Financial Information
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If you are requesting financial aid from INET '96 for attending the workshop
and conference, please also provide a complete, structured itemized income
and expenditure budgets for your travel and expenses in the following form.
The income budget should contain all sources of funds that are available to
you for attending:
Expenditures
1. Workshop Fee U.S.$3,000
2. Airfare $
_______
TOTAL Expenses $
Income
1. Your Institution U.S.$
2. Your Government $
3. From international organizations $
4. Your personal contribution $
5. Amount you ask from ISOC $
_______
TOTAL Income $
NOTE: Total income _MUST_ equal total expenses. You must submit a budget
that balances or your application will be rejected.
If you are requesting assistance for air travel expense, include a good
estimate of probable round trip, lowest economy excursion air fare cost next
June between your place of residence and Montreal, Canada, with supporting
detail (airline, type of fare and city of departure), as well as the source
of your estimate.
Signature: ____________________________ Date: ___________________
For a copy of this announcement, including a blank application, send e-mail to:
Completed applications may be submitted electronically by sending them in electronic mail form to:
Please send your application by electronic mail if it is at all possible to do so.
If you are not able to send your application by electronic mail, please return this application by fax or air mail to:
Internet Society Network Technology Workshop
Voice: +1.415.322.0342 or +1.415.322.6728
Facsimile: +1.415.322.0342 or +1.415.325.5834
Completed applications are due no later than 15 February 1996.
Participants will be notified of admissions and financial aid decisions no later than 15 March 1996. Participant confirmation is required on or before 15 April 1996.
Updated 9 January 1996