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An application for grant (research grant for promoting
public database) was forwarded to the Ministry of
Education for JPNIC database, and JPNIC received
3,280,000 yen as a grant for the year 1994.
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The following letter was composed during the steering
committee meeting and it was sent to
Koudo-Jouhou-Tsushin-Shakai-Honbu (National
government's special task force for promoting advanced
information network society)
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Japan Network Information Center
30th September, 1994
Dear Sir/Madam:
With the establishment of your foundation which has formed a
system for extracting the opinions of the citizen of this country,
Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC), which has worked in
the direction of wide-spreading the Internet, would like to show
its gratitude to your organization, and at the same time it is
self-awakened of the great responsibility for the future. This
is because the Center (JPNIC) is in solidarity with organizations
like IANA, InterNIC etc. which administrate the necessary number
resources related to Internet, and responsibility has been given
to JPNIC for maintaining and administrating the continental
Internet.
JPNIC is highly obliged for having this opportunity to express
its opinion about the true role of advanced information network
society, which it has experienced from the propelling force of
Internet.
As it was in the prime minister's speech, the advanced information
network society is to be realized by boosting the nations economic
frontier, which in turn would activate the economy. In addition to
that, through cultural exchange with other countries the advanced
network society is to contribute to international cooperation and
global peace.
In order to realize the ideal advanced information society, the
government feels that the following things should be taken care.
-Enrichment of fundamental researches
-Pilot projects on advanced and wide networks
-Activate the activities of
private networks by relaxing restrictions
-Support the continental networks without
discriminating the private networks from others
-Contribution and leadership to world,
especially to Asia Pacific regions
Internet is of great interest as the basis for advanced
information society. The service for Internet environment in
our country is on a steady progress, and the number of networks
presently connected to the Internet is next to America and second
in the world.
The Center (JPNIC), with in the framework of global cooperation,
and without discriminating the private networks from others, is
supporting the continental Internet with the following services.
-Allocation/Registration and administration of number resources
(IP address, Domain name, etc.)
-Operation server
( Address transfer server, information server, etc.)
-Global cooperation and generalization of the above.
Although the Center is supporting its activities through
volunteers and membership fees from the organizations that
administrate the networks, in response to your policy it would
like to put more efforts in the direction of advanced information
society.
Therefore, the Center, without any bias to fields like education,
electrical communication, information processing, medical science,
etc. and without discriminating public organization from others,
would like to exchange opinions on the true role of advanced
information society with your special task force.
Sincerely Yours
Jun Murai
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