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Keywords to understand development of Internet in Japan. January, 2005 Atsushi ENDO (5th APNG Camp Vice-Chair) endo@jprs.co.jp. (1) JUNET 、 INET Club 、 WIDE Project. JUNET
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Keywords to understand development of Internet in Japan January, 2005 Atsushi ENDO (5th APNG Camp Vice-Chair) endo@jprs.co.jp
(1) JUNET、INET Club、WIDE Project • JUNET • October 1984 : Connecting Keio University, Tokyo Institute of Technology and University of Tokyo by UUCP. Dissolution in 1994. Initially, JUNET administrated registration of JP Domain Names. • INET Club • With Strong Support of KDD R&D Laboratory, InetClub was established on May 1987. InetClub took a role until the end of 1994. • WIDE Project • Establishment on 1988 • Widely Integrated Distributed Environment • Leading Internet Community of Japan as a Research Group
(2) Internet Resource, Security (JPNIC,JPRS, JPCERT/CC, etc.) • Administration of JP Domain, Operation of JP DNS and Allocation of IP Address • 1991: JNIC • 1993: JPNIC (JaPan Network Information Center) • 1997: JPNIC became corporation aggregate • 2000: JPRS (JaPan Registry Service ) established • Private Sector(Commercial Company) manages “.jp” . • Computer Security Incident Responses • 1996: JPCERT/CC (JaPan Computer Emergency Response Center) established. • 2003: JPCERT/CC became an independent non-profit organization.
(3) Birth of Commercial ISP • 1993: IIJ, AT&T Jens(SPIN) • Mainly for Corporate Use • 1994: Rimnet, BekkoameINTERNET • Mainly for personal use • 1995: TOKYO Internet • popular price • 1997: NTT started “OCN” services all around the country. • Computer online service group: nifty(infoweb)、Biglobe, etc. • Manufacturer group : infoweb(nifty)、So-net、hi-ho、ODN, etc. • JAIPA (JaPan Internet Provider Association) • 1999 : established • 2000:became corporation aggregate
(4) Internet Exchange, Group of Network Operators (JANOG) • IX • Internet Exchange : Cross Connect point of ISP’s • NSPIXP:WIDE Project • 1994 : “NSPIXP-1”@Iwanami • 1997 : ”NSPIXP-2”@KDDI --> dix-ie • JPIX(1997), JPNAP(2001), etc. • JANOG(Japan Network Operators’ Group) • Establish on 1997 • Biannual face to face meeting
(5) Events (Networld + Interop) and Internet Association • Networld + Interop Tokyo • 1994 : First N+I Tokyo • Interoperability • Major international Internet Event held at Japan • INET92(Kobe)、INET2000(Yokohama)、ICANN Yokohama(2000)、54thIETF (Yokohama 2002), APRICOT2005(Kyoto) • Internet Association • 1993:Internet Association of Japan (IAJ) was established • 2001:Internet Association (IAjapan) established. • 2001:IAjapan became judicial foundation
(6) “INTERNET Magazine” , the Internet as a Media • “INTERNET Magazine” • First general magazine dealing with “Internet” • Published by Impress corporation. • Launched in September 1994. At First N+I Tokyo(held on July 2004), inaugural preparatory issue(with CD-ROM, charge free) pass out. • Major Newspapers started WWW sites • asahi.com (1995: http://www.asahi.com/ ) • NIKKEI NET(1996: http://www.nikkei.co.jp/) • Web and Mail Magazine as advertising media
(7) localizing into Japanese • The Internet • World of ASCII Character • Done : Using Japanese on body of E-Mail • ISO-2002-JP • Done :Using Japanese on Mail Subject • Done : Using Japanese on WWW • Done :Using Japanese on Web URI • Technology of IDN(Internationalized Domain Names --> Japanese Domain Name • Not yet : Using Japanese on Mail Address
(8) Expansion of Users • Yahoo Japan (1996) • MagMag (1997) • Simplified system of publishing Mail Magazine • Mail Magazine becomes very popular as a “Media” • i-mode (1999) • February 22, 1999 : NTT DoCoMo launched the service • In Japan, big impact occurred comparable to the birth of WWW browsers • Possibility of expanding “Internet”
(9) Future • “IPv6” “BroadBand” “RFID” ”VoIP” etc. • Boundary between “Telecommunication” and “Internet” • Generalization and Low-cost of constant connection • Increase of traffic • Abuse • spam • Internet Governance
(10) Community of Asia Pacific • Internet community of Japan carries out leading role • APNG (Asia Pacific Networking Group) • APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) • Pilot project of JPNIC+APNG • APIA (Asia & Pacific Internet Association) • APRICOT 2005 at Kyoto • APTLD (Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association) • AI3 (Asian Internet Interconnection Initiatives ) • APCERT (Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team)
Reference • WIDE Project http://www.wide.ad.jp/ • JPNIC http://www.nic.ad.jp/ • JPRS http://jprs.co.jp/ • JPCERT/CC http://www.jpcert.or.jp/ • JANOG http://www.janog.gr.jp/ • IAjapan http://www.iajapan.org/ • History of the Internet Japan http://history.sfc.wide.ad.jp/