1. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.4th APNG Camp @ Busan1 IDN Services in.jp Aug. 24, 2003 4th APNG Camp Busan, Korea Atsushi ENDO JPRS (Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.) http:// 日本レジストリサービス.jp/ http://jprs.jp/

2. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.4th APNG Camp @ Busan2 1.Japanese JP Domain Names 2.Application and service for usage 3.History of IDN services in.jp 4.Reserved Japanese JP Domain Name 5.Preliminary registration 6.JP Domain Name Resolution Policy 7.Number of registration 8.Deployment Activities Contents

3. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.34th APNG Camp @ Busan 1. Japanese JP Domain Names Strings consisting of Chinese(Kanji) and Kana characters as well as ASCII characters –Based on JIS (Japanese Industry Standard) –No variants for kanji as general-use JP domain names up to 15 characters 日本レジストリサービス.jp Top Level DomainSecond Level Domain

4. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.44th APNG Camp @ Busan 2. Application and services for usage - 1/4 - Web Browsers –Internet Explorer + i-Nav Plug-in –Netscape –Opera –Mozilla Web-site redirection services idnkit(open source) –Software library & development kit for IDN-aware applications

5. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.54th APNG Camp @ Busan 2. Application and services for usage - 2/4 - Web Browsers –Internet Explorer + i-Nav Plug-in http://jprs.jp/i-Nav/

6. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.64th APNG Camp @ Busan 2. Application and services for usage - 3/4 - Web Browsers –Netscape 7.1

7. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.74th APNG Camp @ Busan 2. Application and services for usage - 4/4 - Web-site redirection services reditection Short Japanese domain names can be used in place of long ASCII domain names

8. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.84th APNG Camp @ Busan 3. History of IDN services in.jp -1/2- May, 1999 –JPNIC founded “iDNS-TF” to research IDN Februrary, 2000 –“iDNS-TF” changed the name to “IDN-TF” 22/Feb/2001 –General-use JP domain name space introduced ASCII Domain Names –example.jp, jprs.jp Japanese Domain Names – ドメイン名例.jp, 日本レジストリサービス.jp –No such restriction as “one domain name per organization” –Local presence required –Reserved Domain Names –Preliminary Registration –JP-DRP(JP Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy)

9. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.94th APNG Camp @ Busan 3. History of IDN Services in.jp -2/2- 21/Oct/2002 –JPRS starts i-Nav(TM) plug-in for Internet Explorer which enables web- browsing Japanese JP Domain Names 28/Oct/2002 –Web-site redirection services launched. (Japanese Domain Name=>pages with ASCII ) 7/Mar/2003 –Internationalized Domain Name(IDN) Standard Published as RFCs 20/Jun/2003 –ICANN released “Guidelines for the Implementation of Internationalized Domain Names” 30/Jun/2003 –ICANN authorized the Japanese JP Domain Name registration service 10/Jul/2003 - –IDN Standards-Compatible Japanese JP Domain Name registration service launched

10. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.104th APNG Camp @ Busan 4. Reserved Japanese JP Domain Names Prefectures; large cities designated by ordinance; prefectural capital cities Single characters in Hiragana, Katakana, numbers written in Chinese characters, prolonged sound symbols, and others. – あ、イ、五、ー、 … Names of primary and secondary educational organizations –Names ending with “ 小学校 (primary school),” “ 中学校 (junior high school)” and “ 高等学校 (high school).” Names of international inter-governmental organizations – United Nations,... Names related to administrative, judicial, and legislative agencies Japanese common nouns –Ex) service, station, sightseeing,... (that may appear in yellow pages) Names required for JP registry operations – ドメイン名例

11. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.114th APNG Camp @ Busan 5. Preliminary Registration To help avoid/reduce disputes and catastrophe In case of competition, registrants were determined by draw –Priority Registration(Sunrise Period) 22/Feb/2001 - 23/Mar/2001 –Trademarks, registered names, university names, personal names in full –Concurrent Registration 02/Apr/2001 - 23/Apr/2001 –All applications were regarded as arrived at same time –First-come-first-served basis registration 07/May/2001 -

12. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.124th APNG Camp @ Busan 6. JP Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy （ JP-DRP ） Established on October 19, 2000 Based on UDRP set force on gTLDs For both ASCII domain names and Japanese domain names 21 cases filed so far (All were for ASCII domain names)

13. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.134th APNG Camp @ Busan 7. Number of Registration (as of 1,August, 2003) Total : 526,710 General-Use JP : 224,886 –ASCII : 178,871 –Japanese : 46,015 Organizational Type : 297,604 Geographic Type : 4,220 Details --> http://jprs.jp/en/stat/ 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 As of Jan.1

14. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.144th APNG Camp @ Busan 8. Deployment Activities -1/2- A. Education on many sites 1.JDNA, JPNIC, JPRS,.... B. Plug-in (i-Nav) 1. Distribution from JPRS Registry 2. Distribution from JPRS Registrar(JPDirect) 3. Distribution through Other Channels (1)Publicity from mass media (2)Advertisement and link from famous software download websites (3)Link from related organizations C. Other applications & development tool kit 1. Introduction on JDNA Web-site (1)Introduction of IDN-aware applications (Netscape, Opera, …) (2)How to use them 2. idnkit (open source) software library & development kit for IDN-aware applications D. Web-site redirection (Japanese Domain Name=>pages with ASCII ) Service to Registrants through Resellers and JPDirect

15. Copyright © 2003 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd.154th APNG Camp @ Busan 8. Deployment Activities -2/2- JDNA(Japanese Domain Names Association) –Activities Information exchange Standardization of usage Development of a tool kit Support for development and testing –Members ISPs Application/Hardware vendors Domain name registries/registrars Universities –Working Groups Interface specification Web Mail http:// 日本語ドメイン名協会.jp/ http://www.jdna.jp/