we have organized twin workshops on DNS/DNSSEC by ICANN and IXP-BGP by APNIC from 7th to 9th March 2017. The DNS/DNSEC workshop was taken by Champika Wijayatunga, ICANN and Anand Raje, VP-ISOC Chapter as co-trainer. The BGP-IXP Workshop was taken by Nurul ISLAM Roman of APNIC and Anurag Bhatia, Hurricane Electric as co-trainer. Around 40 participants practiced hands-on advanced topics of Internet Engineering. Find workshop pics on Flickr –https://www.flickr.com/photos/isockolkata/albums/72157679469748221
The idea was to develop volunteer workforce and equip technical manpower of members to understand the concept of peering and DNS/DNSSEC. We have given ISOC Chapter fellowship to the budding young engineers under 25 to participate in these workshops. The participants came from across country. We had participants from Guwahati, New Delhi etc.
One of the major success of these workshop is signing of MoU with Catla IT & Engineering Company Private Limited to set up an Internet Exchange Point in Guwahati, Assam. Dr. Monowar Bhuian our IICB IETF fellow was also present during the signing of MoU and shown his willingness to support the initiative from Kaziranga University, Jorhat, Assam.
I have been working with CATLA Broadband services for long and they have taken great steps in Internet growth and providing high speed bandwidth to the people in Guwahati. Moreover their business ethics are clear for any laymen to understand and partner with. Never knew they had signed an MoU with ISOC. Its a great thing.