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Keywords to understand development of Internet in Japan: 

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: 

(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.): 

(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: 

(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): 

(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: 

(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: 

(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 : 

(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: 

(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: 

(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: 

(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: 

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/