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List:       pgp-keyserver-folk
Subject:    *** Invitation: 1st Keyserver Manager Symposium ***
From:       "teun, Tilburg University" <Teun.Nijssen () kub ! nl>
Date:       2000-02-17 14:23:10
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Hello PGP Keyserver Managers,

on behalf of SURFnet you are invited to join

       the first PGP Keyserver Manager Symposium,
22-23 May 2000, Surfnet Office room 8, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

As people may note, this Symposium is adjacent to the SANE conference
in Maastricht http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2000/CfP/CfP.html
so you can join both with one trip to The Netherlands, if you wish.

Program
-------

Monday 22 May

08:45 pick up in lobby of guests staying in Smits Hotel Utrecht
      others please proceed to SURFnet directly

09:00 welcome          inevitably with coffee       
09:15 agenda

09:30 Marc Horowitz    Horowitz Keyserver internals
10:15 discussion       Scripts that help run a server. Bring your own!

10:45 break            (coffee)

11:15 Highware         Highware's Open Keyserver
12:00 confusion        Keysigning party (volunteer for organising?)

12:30 lunch break

13:30 Teun Nijssen     Experiences with the NAI Certificate Server
14:15 discussion       Public Key packets: how to handle new types
                       (CS 3.0 and/or PGP 7.0 imminent)

15:00 break            (yeah, coffee...)

15:30 discussion       Retireing out-of-date keys?
16:30 (open slot)      (if no-one offers a subject we will have to
                       find a beer on Oude Gracht)
17:00 end              (and/or another beer)

18:30 Sponsored Symposium Dinner

Tuesday 23 May

09:00 coffee
09:15 Phil Zimmermann  PGP and Certificate Authorities
10:00 discussion       ask Phil

10:30 break

11:15 Marcel Waldvogel Java-based Synchronized Keyserver
12:00 (open slot)       

12:30 lunch break

13:30 Peter Gietz      An LDAP/X.500 based distributed PGP Keyserver
14:30 Teun Nijssen     The SURFnet PKI: PGP and X.509

15:00 break

15:30 Werner Koch      The GnuPG project and keyservers
16:15 discussion       the future
17:00 end

Registering
-----------

Please register in February or March, by a PGP signed e-mail to
Teun.Nijssen@kub.nl with a CC to Admin@SURFnet.nl mentioning
"joining Keyserver Manager Symposium" on the subject line.

Please send the mail even if you are known to give a presentation
at the Symposium, so we have a count that we can match to the meeting
room capacity.

Every person that registers will receive a confirmation e-mail, however
Teun is in Costa Rica between 22 Feb and 13 March so in that period
confirmations may be delayed.

The symposium room can cope with about 25 participants, which should
be enough. If more people wish to join the priority of acceptance is
in the order: speakers, people actually running a keyserver,
interested others.

Costs
-----

There are no registration costs.

SURFnet offers the venue and organisation costs for free, and they will
fund the travel and hotel costs of Marc Horowitz and Phil Zimmermann in
recognition of the great contributions of these people. All other
attendees pay their own travel, hotel and meals.

The Symposium Dinner on Monday evening however will be sponsored.

Venue
-----

The symposium will be held at the offices of SURFnet. SURFnet is the
Internet provider for the higher education (all universities, most
colleges) and many research organisations in the Netherlands. SURFnet
is one of the most innovative networking organisations in the world.
The current "SURFnet 5" project will connect universities at 2 Gb/s
in 2001 and at 20 or 80 Gb/s in 2002. SURFnet fully funds the SURFnet
PKI and the SURFnet PGP keyservers.

The SURFnet Offices are located centrally in the Netherlands in Utrecht.
Utrecht is a major railroad hub, with many international train connections.
Amsterdam and "Schiphol" (Amsterdam Airport) are at 30 to 40 minutes.
You can find train schedules at http://www.ns.nl/reisplan2.asp
Parking a car in central Utrecht is possible, but very expensive.

SURFnet offices themselves are above a huge shopping complex called
Hoog Catharijne. The Utrecht Central railway station is part of this
complex. A map "how to get to SURFnet" is required and clickable from
http://www.surfnet.nl/en/surfnet-organisation/ Note that the map is
at the first floor (not ground level), where all the shops are too.
Enter the Radboudburcht and go to SURFnet at the fifth floor.

Note also the following URL, which has another perhaps better map, and
more info on Utrecht and hotels (with possibly outdated prices) :
http://www.surfnet.nl/surfnet/persons/egon/utrecht.html

Hotel
-----

There are many hotels in Utrecht and Amsterdam, in a lot of price classes.

The symposium reserved a block of 20 single rooms in Hotel Smits
http://www.smits.nl/index/smits/index.html for Sunday night 21 May and
Monday night 22 May. Price info is on the web reservation page.

Hotel Smits is a recently renovated European style middle class hotel;
clean and comfortable. It is situated very close to the SURFnet offices
(5 minutes walk through the shopping mall) and on the border of the old town
centre. The hotel is situated 300 meters from the beautiful "oude Gracht"
(old canal) which forms the picturesque heart of Utrecht, and which has
numerous reasonable restaurants and pubs along it's lower wharf.

Please make your own reservations at the hotel, either via their WWW page
or via a FAX (+31 30 232 8451) and mention "SURFnet" and the dates of
your stay.

Questions?
----------
Ask Teun.Nijssen@kub.nl but beware of my work in Costa Rica in weeks
8 to 10.

You will all be most welcome. I hope that after May many of you will
be persons instead of just email-addresses...

cheers,

teun
http://cwis.kub.nl/~drc/users/teun/

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