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Training at MAAWG 24th General Meeting, San Francisco, February 20-23, 2012

As listed below, MAAWG is offering professional training courses on Monday, February 20, 2012 during our upcoming general meeting.  Training is scheduled from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. with three courses taught simultaneously. Some courses are still being developed and updates will be posted as available. Participants can choose from any of the courses, as fits their needs and interests.
 
Monday, February 20, 2012
 

Session 1: Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) Part II - This Time It's Regulatory Moderated and led by Neil Schwartzman, CAUCE
12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
 
A continuation of the CASL training from the June 2011 MAAWG meeting in San Francisco, this session will focus on the freshly-published regulations – where the rubber hits the road for all senders of commercial electronic communications. Participants should review the legislative framework outlined in the MAAWG CASL Training Videos filmed during the original course and available on the MAAWG website at http://www.maawg.org/activities/training/casl-video-list or by selecting MAAWG Training Videos from the Activities menu tab.
 
Presenters will be Kelly-Anne Smith, Legal Counsel, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and André Leduc, Senior Policy Advisor (Spam, Cryptography and Cybercrime) at Industry Canada.
 
Session 2: Client Certs and S/MIME Signing and Encryption: An Introduction
Joe St Sauver, Ph.D., MAAWG Senior Technical Advisor
12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
 
You may be familiar with SSL server certificates (now used by every e-commerce site on the Internet), but you may not know that X.509 client certificates also exist. These can be readily used for generating S/MIME (RFC 5751) signed or encrypted email messages as an alternative to OpenPGP (RFC 4880).
 
Client certs are freely available for personal use and many popular mail user agents (MUAs) ship with integrated S/MIME capabilities out of the box ­– you just need to know how to use them. Client certs are now also widely used in private industry and by millions of federal government employees or government contractors for multifactor authentication, including in highly sensitive environments that require the highest level of assurance (e.g., NIST LOA-4).
 
During this session we will introduce client certs and discuss how they can be readily obtained and used with a number of popular MUAs and even Web email applications. We will also talk about how client certs are managed on desktops, laptops and mobile devices, and considerations associated with USB-format PKI hard tokens and credit-card format "smart cards."  We will also discuss the tension between non-repudiation and key escrow considerations, and public key management, including sharing a proof-of-concept public key server for times when signing keys and encryption keys may differ.
 
Session 3: Techniques for Maximizing Group Collaboration
Michael Goldman, Facilitation First
All afternoon, 12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (2 parts)
 
You have been asked to lead a group discussion to solicit input, brainstorm new concepts, define best practices or build consensus, among other purposes, AND you are expected to ensure everyone participates, the group generates recommendations and you build buy-in for the results – all within one hour! Sounds easy, right? NOT. This workshop is geared to train you on techniques for building quick, effective group collaboration that ultimately builds participant buy-in. It is targeted to MAAWG committee chairs, moderators, session leaders and anyone who needs to learn how to leverage and maximize group collaboration. 
 
Participants will walk out with:
  • Clarity as to what facilitators do
  • Tools on how to successfully prep, start, manage and close most collaborative discussions
  • Several processes to manage feedback, idea generation and decision-making sessions
  • Practice sessions with a chance to facilitate or observe someone facilitating and give or receive feedback
Session 4: Creation, Care and Feeding of a Trap Network
Kelly Molloy, Return Path
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
 
Want to know how to pick and maintain the addresses for your feeder network?  Come and learn from some very experienced folks who have been running feeder networks of addresses for a long time. Do not expect any "secret sauce," but bring your questions on how to get the things that you want out of your potential feeder network.  You will learn some of the do's and don'ts that our experts have learned along the way.
 
Session 5: OpenDKIM
Murray Kucherawy, Cloudmark and Technical Committee Co-Chair
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
 
DKIM is the latest buzzword in email sender authentication. MAAWG has held tutorials in the past about what DKIM is and what it is not, with a quick showing of how to set it up and use it. Now is your chance to dig deeper with hands-on training from an expert.
 
Murray Kucherawy is a Cloudmark principal engineer, incoming co-chair of the MAAWG Technical Committee and the lead developer on OpenDKIM, the leading open source implementation of DKIM now in production at Yahoo! and AOL, among others. In this session, he will walk you through setting up OpenDKIM – including compiling, installing and configuring for signing and verifying DKIM signatures – in a lab environment where you will  try it yourself. And once you have mastered that, we will explore some examples of how to make it go further with OpenDKIM’s powerful extensions. When you leave, you will be able to set up OpenDKIM in just about any kind of environment.
 
Please Note: The basic theory of DKIM and how it works will not be covered in depth. You are expected to be familiar with the content contained in the previous MAAWG DKIM video tutorials, which are available on the MAAWG website at http://www.maawg.org/activities/training/dkim-video-list or by selecting MAAWG Training Videos from the Activities menu tab.
 
You are invited to submit questions about OpenDKIM ahead of time to ensure specific topics of interest to you or your environment are covered. Please email your questions to opendkim-training@maawg.org by 13 February.  Do not expect email answers but look to have your questions covered in the session.