The course on Internet Resource Management Essentials (IRME) was conducted on 10^th June 2008 for over 200 SIT and SEG students, alongside over 20 professionals from Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and technical staff from various System Integrators and Institutes of Higher Learning.  The course gave students an insight into how Internet resources are managed, from the regional and country level and how policies affecting the future of the Internet in the country are formed. Other topics such the future growth paths of the Internet as well as examples of IP addressing plans were also discussed.

The students expressed that the course provided an insight beyond classroom knowledge as to how such organisations are involved in the management of the Internet as well as how local service providers are able to manage resources such as IP addresses and issues pertaining to domain names.

The second 2-day IPv6 workshop conducted on 11-12 June involved technical level and supervisory staff from local ISPs. The deployment of IPv6 was also discussed in detail. Hands on workshops were conducted in addition to the materials discussed. In these workshops attendees were able to simulate a large ISP deployment of IPv6 addresses. Staff from the Republic Polytechnic were able to work alongside technical staff from ISPs and topics such as migration strategy and IPv6 sub-netting were mapped out together.

Republic Polytechnic would like to convey its special thanks to the 2 trainers from APNIC , Cecil Goldstein and John Tan, for conducting the workshops.