Jun. 22, 1997
					at APNIC meeting in Kuala Lumpur

			Overview of JPNIC

							N. Maruyama
							maruyama@nic.ad.jp
							JPNIC

1. History and organization. 

   JPNIC was founded as a Union of Internet service providers in Japan
in April of 1993. On March 31 1997, it was given a permission by the
government to register as a probono association. Until that time,
although it had been operating as a "quasi-association", it had
actually been doing activities similar to a registered association.
Since then, the officially acknowledged successor has taken over all
the rights, responsibilities, and undertakings of its predecessor,
including JP domain name assignment and IP address assignment in
Japan. In addition, it has added some new activities concerning
education and census in Japanese Internet. On a whole, the
registration is one of the memorable pages in JPNIC's history, and
will ensure the continuous evolution of the association.

Here is a figure indicating the number of members (transparency p.2).
It typically shows our growth in these four years.

A rough sketch of our organization is shown on the transparency
(transp. p.3). I have already explained this structure in the previous
APNIC meeting in Hong Kong, but here is one change in new JPNIC: the
number of Board member is now 15 while it was 7 in old JPNIC.

The Budget for fiscal year 1997 is about 4.7 million U.S. dollars
(transp. p.4); 41% of which is due to membership fees, 23% is
assignment charges, and the remaining part being the balance carried
over from the previous fiscal year. To avoid over-income, caused by
tremendous growth of the Japanese Internet, we have reduced the
membership fee and assignment charge as of Apr. 1 (transp. p.5,6).

2. JP domains

   Assignment of JP domain names is quite a large undertakings for
JPNIC. The structure and policy of JP domains are shown in
transparencies (transp. p.7,8). I have already explained about this in
Hong Kong, so I will omit here.

3. IP addresses

   Our IP address assignment procedure is now based on RFC 2050.
JPNIC allocates blocks of addresses to member ISPs, and they assign
necessary amount of address to users.  Member ISPs are obliged to
perform assignment of small chunk of addresses of prefixes longer than
24 in many cases to attain desired usage rate, and, also, to manage
"Degroot-type" DNS delegation. We made the current procedure effective
on March. 1, and currently more than 80% of the total applications are
resolved with address spaces smaller than one C class space
(transp. p.15).

4. Recent topics

Here are a summary of recent topics in JPNIC activities (transp. p.9).
I have explained above about 4.3, 4.5 and 4.6. For 4.1, 4.2 and 4.4
please refer to

ftp://ftp.nic.ad.jp/jpnic/publication/presentations/APNIC970131.speech

4.1 Introducing new functional type "ne" (Nov. 6,1996),
4.2 Removing the "third level uniqueness" restriction (Dec. 10,1996),
4.3 Revising documents for  IP address assignment to reflect rfc2050,
4.4 Discussion on trademark and domain names,
4.5 Incorporation of JPNIC as a government authorized probono association
							(Mar. 31, 1997),
4.6 Change membership fee and assignment charge (Apr. 1, 1997).

5. Statistics

   To sum up this speech, I would like to share with you some
statistics concerning  our activities (transp. p.10-16).