Appendix 4.          Usage of JPNIC database

At present, the following 7 kinds of information are administrated
by JPNIC. These information can be retrieved with the help of whois,
and the address is whois.nic.ad.jp.

  1. Domain Information [DOM]
  Contains information on: the name of the organization, postal address,
  the name of the administrative contact/technical contact, DNS information,
  and the IP address of a particular domain.

  2. Network Information [NET]
  Contains information on: the name of the organization, postal address,
  the name of the administrative contact/technical contact, and DNS
  information of a particular assigned IP address.

  3. Personal Information [PERSON]
  Contains information on: the e-mail address, home address, phone
  number, fax number of the administrative contact/technical contact.

  4. Host Information [HOST]
  Contains information on: the IP address of the DNS server, technical
  contact, the types of CPU/OS used. 

  5. Project Information [PROJ]
  Contains information on: the name of administrative contact/technical
  contact, NOCs, domain name, IP address of the network organization.

  6. NOC Information [NOC]
  Contains information on: the name of the technical contact of a NOC,
  the IP networks connected to a NOC.

  7. Community Information [COM]
  Contains the community information necessary for operating networks. 
  (e-mail address, reference, administrative contact)

For further information about the usage of whois service, execute the
following command.

 % whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp help/e 

The following things will be displayed as as soon as the command is
executed.

[ JPNIC database provides information on network administration. Its use is   ]
[ restricted to network administration purposes. For further information, use ]
[ 'whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp help'. To suppress Japanese output, add '/e' at   ]
[ the end of command, e.g. 'whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp xxx/e'.                  ]

			<JPNIC WHOIS HELP>
							Sep. 1, 1993
							staff@whois.nic.ad.jp

1. JPNIC WHOIS database includes the following type of information in Japan:

	TYPE		Descritopn
	----------------------------------------------------------
	DOM		Domain Information (domain names)
	NET		Network Information (network numbers)
	HOST		Host Information (name servers)
	PERSON		Personal Information (contacts)
	PROJ		Project Infomation (network projects)
	NOC		NOC Information (network operation centers)
	COM		Community Information (mailling lists)

2. How to get the information:

	STRING		Broad search all over the types
	!STRING		Key search all over the types

To restrict the search to a certain type of information:

	TYPE STRING	TYPE is one of DOM, NET, etc. (see above)

To obtain detail or related information:

	*STRING		Expand the output even when multiple matches
	%STRING		Expand the contact fileds or known sub-domains
	^STRING		Display what refers to the information

When you don't know exactly:

	STRING...	Partial search starting with STRING
	...STRING	Partial search ending with STRING

if STRING contains an '@', search only E-Mail fields:

	name@		Find everyone with the name.
	@domain		Find everyone in the domain.
	name@domain	Find everyone with the name in the domain.

3. Use of the information you get from JPNIC WHOIS is limited to
   ONLY for network operations.