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MIC announces results of
Japan-India Ministerial Meeting and
Japan-India ICT
Forum | |
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| ASO Taro, Minister for Internal
Affairs and Communications, visited India on August 24,
2005, along with about 100 representatives from industry
including top executives of Japan's major
telecommunications carriers, manufacturers and research
institues in the ICT field. | |
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 During his visit, as outlined
below, Minister Aso held a meeting with Mr. Dayanidhi
MARAN, Indian Minister for Communications and
Information Technology, and subsequently participated in
first Japan-India ICT Forum which was attended by
industry, government and academia. Through these
opportunities both Japanese and Indian sides exchanged
views on topics such as promoting bilateral exchanges in
the ICT business and strengthening their approach
through cooperation between industry, government and
academia. These meetings were implemented based on the
agreements in the Japan-India Joint Statement of April
2005 signed by Japanese Prime Minister KOIZUMI Junichiro
and Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan SINGH.
In
addition, Minister ASO paid a courtesy visit to Indian
Prime Minister Mohan SINGH, and reported to him on the
Japan-India ICT Forum as well as outlining his
expectations of future ICT cooperation between Japan and
India. Prime Minister SINGH expressed his special thanks
for the visit which took place immediately before the
snap election in Japan, and was very complimentary on
the results of these meetings ( i.e. joint statement,
memorandum on cooperation in research and development,
and establishment of working groups).
Japan-India Ministerial
Meeting
The two ministers exchanged opinions
on the state of ICT policies in their respective
countries, and signed an ICT joint statement calling for
the establishment of working groups in specific fields
under the Japan-India ICT Forum. Memoranda were also
signed for cooperation in research between Japan's NICT
(National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology) and India's CDAC (Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing), CDOT (Centre for Development of
Telematics), and the Guwahati school of IIT (India
Institute of Technology).
Minister ASO stated
that building the ubiquitous network society that Japan
is promoting is the equivalent of the industrial
revolution of the past, and that by cooperating in
bringing out the best in their own areas of strength,
Japan and India could together become the driving force
of the global ICT industry.
The First Japan-India ICT
Forum
 The
forum was attended by approximately 250 top-level
representatives from Japan and India's major
telecommunications carriers, equipment manufacturers and
software developers in the ICT field, as well as
research institutes, and opinions were exchanged about
various companies' approaches and the outlook for the
future.
In his opening address, Minister ASO introduced
the "u-Japan Policy" as well as
spoke on the importance of ICT in the development
of economy and society. He emphasized that
the forum should be used as an opportunity
for Japan and India to fulfill a leading
role in the global ICT field.
As a result of the
meeting, it was agreed that the following working groups
should be set up, and that both sides would be work on
encouraging cooperation and promotion of the IT business
through the collaboration of industry, government and
academia. 1) Broadband, 2) Mobile communications, 3)
e-government, 4) R&D, 5) Information security and 6)
ubiquitous networks
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"IPv6
Transition Field Trial"
--towards a ubiquitous network society
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| In order to realize a ubiquitous
network society where everything and everyone will be
interconnected by enabling a smooth transition of the
entire Internet infrastructures from IPv4 to IPv6, MIC
will carry out model verification experiments including
verification of effectiveness of IPv6 in various
application environments and reliability of the IPv4 -
IPv6 transition models. | |
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Background
IPv6, which is the next-generation
specification, is a set of key technologies for
realizing a ubiquitous network society where everything
and everyone will be interconnected.
When comparing
IPv6 with the current IPv4, the number of addresses will
dramatically increase (IPv6 is 128bits and IPv4 is
32bits), and strengthened security (e.g. the encrypted
telecommunication called IP Sec as standard equipments),
and the simplification of various settings (e.g.
automatic address settings by connecting devices with
networks) will be realized. In more concrete terms,
through the use of IPv6, advanced and diversified
services will become available in the fields of home
security, education, nursing care, transport, etc.
As realization of a smooth transition of the
current Internet infrastructures from IPv4 to IPv6 is an
imminent issue, "e-Japan Strategy," set "the transition
to IPv6 compliant Internet platforms" as a concrete
policy target.
MIC
efforts
Since FY2003, MIC has been
implementing three-year-periods verification experiments
by linking a model network for enabling the environment
which allows users such as local public entities,
corporate users and residential users to use IPv6
easily.
In addition, in order to encourage the
transition to IPv6, MIC has been widely releasing the
results of verification experiments domestically and
internationally. For further information on verification
results by FY2004, please refer to the following
URL:
http://www.v6trans.jp/jp/
(Japanese)
http://www.v6trans.jp/en/
(English)
Outline of field
trials in FY2005
With respect to field trials
to be carried out in FY2005, MIC will accelerate
penetration of IPv6 through experimenting with the
models for building various IPv6 ubiquitous network
systems in local communities in addition to the
implementation of technical verifications on network
operations related to IPv6.
Field trials be carried
out in FY2005 include verification experiments on the
following applications:
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- Consultation services for
residents (Taito, Tokyo)
Making the best of
FY2004 verification experiments, the field trial
will improve efficiency of administrative services
for residents through construction of consultation
services for residents, which i) reduce further
burdens on city workers, ii) reduce costs for
operations and iii) are conducive to practical
systems.
- Taito City Assembly streaming
live video relay services (Taito,
Tokyo)
Through the use of multicast
distribution functions unique to IPv6, the field
trial will i) realize a high-definition City
Assembly video relay distribution system at Taito
City Hall and ii) implement verifications on
preferential control and quality stabilization
technologies upon implementation of realtime
applications.
-Health care at home support
services (Asahikawa, Hokkaido)
The field trial
will realize health-care-at-home support services,
which will be enabled to remotely control
terminals for health care, by means of IPv6-ready
mobile terminals, through the use of the "push
functions" unique to IPv6.
- Push-type
information provision services for residents
(Osaka)
The field trial will construct
information provision services through making the
best of the information push function of
IPv6.
-IPv6 multi-services in Security-Town
(Kawasaki, Kanagawa)
The field trial will
implement "security town" services, which enable
secure video information distribution for
security, through i) development of distribution
functions for each address to which information is
sent and ii) the use of various IPv6 automatic
setting functions.
- Music Town services
(Okinawa)
The field trial will realize video
multicasting via multiple ISPs through the use of
IPv6.
- IPv6 multi-service in school
security solutions (Tokyo)
The field trial will
implement security services for schools through
the adequate private information protection by
using the functions that control the multiple
connections of IPv6 at the same time.
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Office building automation services (Tokyo)
The
field trial will monitor elevator control and its
energy saving and operation cost reductions
through implementation of total building
management by utilizing abundant IPv6 addresses in
some cultural facilities.
Other services
through the use of IPv6 will be implemented,
including the following:
i) information
gathering service for disaster prevention,
ii)
local digital museum,
iii) hospital
tele-diagnosis collaboration service,
iv) video
distribution service between education
facilitiesuniversities and junior high
schools,
v) nature regeneration project
monitoring service,
vi) LP gas tele-metering,
and
vii) environment monitoring.
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implementations are put together to formulate a
guideline describing means for the concrete transition
to IPv6 and effective IPv6 utilization, and will be
released publicly.
MIC will pursue the
development of IP infrastructure for realizing the
ubiquitous network society where everything and everyone
will become interconnected. | |
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