[Sican] Fwd: CIRA IT Workshop Victoria

[Garth Graham]

Please forward as appropriate.


> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Sarah Brimacombe <Sarah.Brimacombe at cira.ca>
> Subject: RE: CIRA IT Workshop Victoria 
> Date: February 12, 2016 at 10:55:07 AM PST
> To: "garth.graham at telus.net" <garth.graham at telus.net>
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> CIRA is hosting a short workshop for IT managers and DNS administrators at the  <>Canoe Brew Pub <http://canoebrewpub.com/> in Victoria BC, on February 22nd from 2:30-4:30 pm.
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> This educational opportunity will be followed by a .CA Networking Event that brings together peers on the Canadian Internet. While in attendance, you can sample some of the best hand-crafted brews on the island.
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> Take me to the registration page <https://www.regonline.ca/vicFY16prod>
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> The workshop is organized into short technical sessions that focus on pragmatic solutions that can be implemented today.
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> As a manager of a .CA domain name, or any domain name that has customers and users in Canada, you are part of an exclusive club. We would love to have you in attendance and hear your voice as together we shape Canada’s Internet.
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> How peering at an IXP can reduce your Internet costs and improve your VPN performance
> Ron Grant, Internet architect
> VAXIX – The Vancouver Internet Exchange
> 
> Many organizations are paying too much for their pipe to the Internet and investments in Canada’s Internet have been made to help IT teams improve and secure their connectivity. This presentation will review the current state of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in Canada and talk about how you can get employees and customers closer to the information they need. It will also talk about VANIX and why and how you should peer.
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> The external DNS is under attack; learn how to configure and protect it
> Mark Gaudet, product manager
> The Canadian Internet Registration Authority
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> 90% of organizations managing their DNS in Canada have critical, customer-impacting problems with their configuration. Almost 30,000 authoritative DNS servers didn’t respond once in six months to our query attempts. Canadian user query response times are fully 102% slower than they could be. This presentation will provide details on this research into the DNS in Canada and present a way to analyze and optimize your own authoritative name servers. It will also discuss a Canada-first DNS network, deployed by CIRA that is designed to optimize and secure traffic and protect Canadian organizations from DDoS attacks. Whether you manage your own DNS or rely on a supplier, this presentation will show you how to ensure it is among the best in the world. After all, without the DNS everything online ceases to exist. 
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> IPv6 and DNSSEC - why you need to look again
> Steven Barry, director of information technology
> The Canadian Internet Registration Authority
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> IPv6 adoption in Canada sits at about 10%, but the world is running out of IPv4 addresses and the change to IPv6 is coming like a freight train. Canadian ISPs haven’t made it any easier, while organizations like Apple have stated that iOS will support IPv6-only network services. This presentation will cover the advantages of IPv6 and walk through addressing, configuration, security and managing dual stacks. We will draw on the real world problems CIRA faced in deploying IPv6 on our network.
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> DNSSEC is another technology with growing adoption within Canada. It helps protect web users and has become part of the conversation in other working groups, including groups that support PCI compliance and DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE). The former matters for secure payments and the latter is fundamental to securing email in the future. This presentation will talk about the current state of these standards the positive impacts they can have for IT managers today and in the future.
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> Sarah Brimacombe
> Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)
> 979 Bank Street, Suite 400, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5K5
> Office: 613.237.5335  x302
> Mobile: 613.218.7581
> www.cira.ca/d-zone <http://www.cira.ca/d-zone>
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> This email and any attachments are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the named addressee(s).  If you received this email in error then please contact the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. Thank you for your co-operation.
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> From: Sarah Brimacombe 
> Sent: February-12-16 1:52 PM
> To: 'garth.graham at telus.net <mailto:garth.graham at telus.net>'
> Subject: CIRA IT Workshop Victoria 
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> CIRA IT Workshop: 
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> https://www.regonline.ca/register/login.aspx?eventID=1806512&MethodId=0&EventsessionId <https://www.regonline.ca/register/login.aspx?eventID=1806512&MethodId=0&EventsessionId>=
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> Sarah Brimacombe
> Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)
> 979 Bank Street, Suite 400, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5K5
> Office: 613.237.5335  x302
> Mobile: 613.218.7581
> www.cira.ca/d-zone <http://www.cira.ca/d-zone>
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> This email and any attachments are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the named addressee(s).  If you received this email in error then please contact the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. Thank you for your co-operation.

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