1. Development of the National Registry System in Japan
Presentation for Pre-sessional consultations on registries
Development of the National Registry System in Japan
6/2/2003

2. Development of the National Registry System in Japan
Overview
Responsible Ministries：
Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI)
Ministry of the Environment (MOE)
Duration： Nov
Cost：90 million yen (US$770,000) (the 2002 fiscal year)
System Vendor：NTT Data Corporation

3. Summary of Functions in the National Registry(system development in the 2002 fiscal year)
Account Management
Opening/Closing accounts of each legal entity
Credit Management
Referring account information
Issuing credits in the registry
Transferring credits inside the registry
Information Disclosure
Disclosing information on the total amounts of credits and transactions inside the registry

4. System Architecture Internet Data Center Account holders Registry
administrators
Firewall
DMZ
METI
Communication line
Public
External
Web server
DB server
Internal
Web server
AP server
MOE
Internet
System administrator
DMZ: DeMilitarized Zone

5. Activities in the Development of the Interface Specification
Preparing possible scheme of the detailed functional specification of the interface
Arranging functions of the interface between registry systems under the Marrakech accord (application of UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology)
Specifying elements which each registry checks in advance so as for the entire registry system to stabilize
Introducing at the IETA workshop (Feb. 2003)

6. Future tasks in the system development
Domestic challenges
Reinforcement in security
Development of e-application functions
International challenges
Contribution to the development of the detailed technical interface specification
Development of functions in international transactions
Expansion of information disclosure (according to the Marrakech accord)
Development of function to check discrepancy in transactions
Development of function to terminate transactions in case a discrepancy was found