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Hackathon @ AIS
ISOC and AFRINIC are organising a Hackathon to bring together engineers who are interested in learning about the IETF and how IETF standards can be applied to code. The hackathon looks to encourage developers to discuss, collaborate and develop utilities, ideas, sample code and solutions that show practical implementations of IETF standards.
When: Saturday May 27th and Sunday May 28th, 2017
Where: Boma Inn Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
Room: KIFARU Room (Upstairs in the conference room)
Contact person Kevin Chege (chege@isoc.org)
The Hackathon is free to attend to successful applicants
Hackathon Topics
DNS - Domain Name System
Topic Lead: Joe Abley
The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the key infrastructures of the Internet allowing humans to remember names rather than numbers (IP addresses) when looking for devices/content on the Internet. A proposed topic aims to work on how DNS traffic is captured and stored. In particular, we will explore CBOR, a standard, binary format for structured data, and the proposal to use CBOR to store DNS (request, response) pairs, C-DNS, draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-capture-format-02.
Presentation: cbordns_jabley.pdf
Further reading:
Challenge
Day 1
Establish a good team dynamic
Identify resources needed (
DNS, coding, management, documentation)
Explore and test CBOR libraries in Java and Python
Day 2
Build on success of Day 1!
IP Version 6 (IPv6)
Topic Lead: Fernando Gont (https://www.si6networks.com/)
IPv6 Challenge - fgont-ais2017-hackathon.pdf
Introduction to the IETF (Gont)
RFCs to be tested/implemented (Gont)
HOW-TO for testing compliances with the RFCs (Gont)
[a little time for testing, and documenting the tests]
Tutorial for kernel/network code hacking: RFC4213 (Codarren Velvindron)
Day #2
Tutorial about draft/
RFC edition process (Gont)
Time for publishing the tests as an ietf-draft]
Discussion of some current drafts, so that participants can review them and send comments in the mailing-list (Gont)
RFC Documents for review
IPv6 Lab test
Hackathon 101 and Kernel Hacking
Agenda
Saturday, May 27th
08:00: Room opens
09:00: Introduction and Opening
09:30: DNS refresher
09:45: IPv6 refresher
10:00: Open Chat and Goal Setting
10.30: Break
12:30: Lunch provided
15:30: Afternoon break - Snacks provided
17:00: End of Day 1
Sunday, May 28th
09:00: Room opens - Pastries and coffee provided
12:30: Lunch provided
13:30: Hacking stops, prepare brief presentation of project
14:00: Project presentation to other participants and judges
15:00: Recap and suggestions for improvements
15:30: Awards presented, prizes given
16:00: Hackathon ends
17:00: Tear down complete - End of Day 2
Photos from the Event
Venue Requirements
Projector
Internet connectivity
Virtual Box (on trainees laptops)
Server for virtualization - used an Intel NUC
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LibreOffice - useful for editing all document versions (especially PDFs!!)
Participant Skill Requirements
Must be comfortable programming in C (other languages are also a bonus)
Must have experience working with the UNIX/Linux Shell
Knowledge of the
DNS Protocol is a must
Experience with managing any
DNS server
Familiarity with IPv4 and IPv6
Understanding of Networking and Client - Server architecture
Prior experience with UNIX and Linux system administration would be a bonus
What you will need to participate
Bring a laptop on which you are comfortable developing software
You may be required to install additional software
Anything else that is required will be provided, such as Virtual Machines if needed
Installing and becoming familiar with VirtualBox or something similar will help
Wireless access to the Internet will be provided
Team ethic (working as a team to solve a problem)
Preparation
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Familiarity with GitHub prior to the event would be useful to have (
http://github.com)
Online course on
DNS and Networking will be made available to participants prior to the event
Post Hackathon Activities
Further engagement regarding the IETF (more on this at the event)
Invitation to attend or organize an IETF Hub for the IETF 99
Guidance on how to organize similar hackathons