Technical Tutorials at LACNIC 45 – What’s New
April 22, 2026
LACNIC 45 will be coming to Panama with three technical tutorials on routing security, IPv6 deployment, and DNS, an initiative aimed at strengthening capabilities across the region. These activities will address topics that are key to building local and regional expertise, update participants’ knowledge, and promote infrastructure that is better prepared for today’s connectivity, security, and scalability challenges.
As Panama seeks to establish itself as a digital hub for Latin America, these training spaces take on special importance. They not only offer practical tools for operators, engineers, and decision-makers across the region, but also help close gaps in core areas of the Internet’s logical infrastructure, such as IPv6 adoption.
IPv6 adoption is no small matter. Continuing to rely on the IPv4 protocol can hold back the country’s technological growth, widen gaps, and limit access to technology. Without transitioning to IPv6, Panama risks losing competitiveness in a constantly evolving digital landscape, making innovation and economic development harder to sustain.
In this context, LACNIC 45 will offer a concrete response: intensive technical training on IPv6, routing security, and DNS. During the first day of the event, three specialized tutorials will tackle these challenges from different angles, combining theory, hands-on practice, and live labs.
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Routing Security: From RPKI to ASPA
This workshop will focus on the integrity of the routing system. It will address technologies such as RPKI, which enables route origin validation and helps mitigate traffic hijacks; route-leak classification and best practices to reduce them, including BGP Roles; as well as ASPA and other emerging proposals designed to strengthen not only origin validation but also end-to-end routing.
The goal is to encourage the adoption of best practices and reduce configuration errors that can have an impact well beyond the local level.
Towards the Age of IPv6-Only
The second tutorial will focus on one of the region’s major challenges: IPv6 deployment. Rather than taking a purely theoretical approach, participants will work on real-world scenarios under the notion of “IPv6 mostly” networks, i.e., networks where IPv6 is predominant yet coexists with IPv4. Guided by specialists such as José Cotúa and Alejandro Acosta, participants will be able to connect to a test network, test various configurations, and take home a practical guide for implementing this type of deployment in their own organizations.