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October 10, 2002, 15:30 - 17:30 |
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Information Technology Center, the University of Tokyo |
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| (1) Members (alphabetical order; titles omitted
from names) |
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ASABA Toshiya, ASAI
Hiroshi, ESAKI Hiroshi, GOTO Shigeki, HIRANO Naoya, IMAI Keiichi,
ISHII Kenichi, KISHI Hirokazu, KONISHI Kazunori, LIM Kian
Soon, LIU Dong (substitute attendant: LU), MATSUMOTO Toshifumi,
MIKURIYA Toshio, Yong-Jin PARK, SAGA Kenji, SHIBASAKI Yoshitaka,
SHIOMI Tadashi, TAKAHASHI Toru, TAKAHASHI Toshinori, TANAKA
Toshiki and YASUMOTO Yoshio
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| (2) MPHPT |
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Vice-Minister TSUKIO Yoshio; MORI, Director-General
of the International Affairs Department; OKAYAMA, Director
of the International Policy Division; TAJIRI, Senior Advisor
for International Public Relations of the International Policy
Division; MIYASHITA, Senior Advisor of the International Cooperation
Division
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| (1) Opening |
| (2) Outline of the report |
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Mr. TAJIRI, Senior Advisor for International
Public Relations of the International Policy Division, explained
the outline of the report according to Reference Material
3-2 "On Outline of the report (draft)." |
| (3) On the current status, issues and points
of contentions |
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Mr. MIYASHITA, Senior Advisor of
the International Cooperation Division, explained some points
in line with Reference Material 3-2 "On the current status,
issues and points of contentions (draft)." |
| (4) Results of "Japan, China and the
Republic of Korea ICT Ministerial Meeting" |
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Mr. MIYASHITA explained this matter in line
with Reference Materials 3-3 "Strengthening of collaboration
among Japan, China and the Republic of Korea in the ICT field
- Results of 'Japan, China and the Republic of Korea ICT Ministerial
Meeting' --."
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| (5) Outline
of opinion exchange |
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Is the field of "PKI" and "authentication"
included in "infrastructure construction,"
"content," or "application"? I do
think such field should be categorized as a new field
of "middleware." |
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Data collection of basic networks, including traffic
measurement, shall be dealt with. |
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,Relationship (collaboration, operation) between
R&D networks and commercial networks may be categorized
as "Others." In any case, this be clearly
organized. |
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With respect to IX, Acceptable Use Policy, or AUP,
would be considered. |
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Japan's efforts to deploy broadband platforms are
still in its infancy. From now on, the report shall
explicitly express that Japan will take a leadership
role in deploying broadband platforms in the Asian region. |
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Frameworks of the term "broadband" be clearly
defined. As the threshold, "more than mega"
is frequently used. Take a satellite transponder, for
example. The border cannot be applied to the portion
of downlink. |
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In a sense, it is true. However, definition by value
would not always work. |
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To drafts submitted by the Secretariat, each Member
should reinforce the contents by setting a deadline,
until the next meeting. For instance, with regard to
"IPv6," on page 16, Reference Material 3-2,
there is merely one reference to ICT consumer electronics.
To be stressed is that employing a wider concept "merits
of IPv6," the new business development in various
fields through IPv6 will lead to job creation. Besides,
security has become a big theme since 9-11. Please don't
downplay the significance of the fact that IPv6 ensures
further security. |
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Relationship between the Asia Broadband Program and
activities of the ITU-D Regional Office for Asia and
Pacific (Thailand) would be better to be clearly organized. |
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As for the reality of applications, factors obstructing
widespread use and constraints in doing business are
to be listed. We must call a spade a spade. Say, intellectual
property rights. If one files application for patent
as free trade in on country, this filing is automatically
applied to other countries. Can we introduce such a
system on a multilateral basis? In reality, we must
file country by country. Too costly. |
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Koreans are game freaks. Cable TV broadcasts PC game
matches. Distinct points different from Japan are overenthusiasm
regarding PC games. (a matter of difference in national
character) |
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As for the Korean content industry, not only the administration
in charge of ICT but also administrations in charge
of culture are actively promoting the industry. |
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I expect a new cultural possibility in East Asia.
We can find a positive significance in cultural exchange
across borders via broadband platforms. |
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Obstacles for content distribution are the costly
international communications charges. For example, should
there be an international joint plan to produce a CG-based
film in many Asian countries, this will face unbreakable
walls of international communications charges. |
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Upon discussing international communications charges,
the issue is to be classified into three categories.
One is access charges, then backbones, and the narrow
definition of international circuit, including submarine
cables. International circuit charges have been reduced
to a level of one-fifth to one-eighth the charges three
years before; accordingly, enemy number one would be
prices of local loop or backbone. |
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APRICOT (the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference
on Operational Technologies) projects are comprised
of major part of human resource development. |
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With regard to human resource development, as there
are many moves including APNIC, it would be better to
collect information. |
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Upon developing an action plan, funding scheme shall
be studied according to the implementation process of
the action plan. |
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There is divergence between frameworks of ODA and
reality of ICT. This is the problem. Accelerated decision
process, shortened redemption periods and multilateral
scheme in addition to bilateral ones are to be enabled.
This is a good occasion to publicize ODA proposals as
a report including the "15 billion dollars in five
years" proposed at the Kyushu-Okinawa Summit meeting. |
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ICT initiatives shall, in principle, be led by the
private sector. On page 64, the term "restraints
on use" refers to "more than three years."
However, projects which take three years or longer are
ODA-related ones. Accordingly, the expression "ODA/OOF"
shall be read as "ODA." And, although it says
the decision process periods are "more than three
years," this shall be "long term." |
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Asia expects Japan to implement two things. One is
to apply ODA to ICT. The other is related to deployment
of Japanese manufacturers in Asia. In particular, medium-sized
vigorous manufacturers striving to deploy their business
in Asia are facing difficulties in establishing information
networks between Japan and local bases. An environment,
in which Japanese medium-sized manufacturers can use
a hub, such as IX, shall be prepared. |
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It is indispensable to construct and improve information
networks and collaboration between Japanese manufacturers
and Asian ones. This will lead to invigoration of the
content industry. |
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I would like to propose that by the next-meeting each
member would submit a note as an additional comment
containing two points, namely, what kind of restraints
are there, and what kind of demand is there. |
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At the "Japan, China and Korea Trilateral ICT
Ministerial meeting in Marrakesh, Korean Minister Lee
Sangchul stressed "Digitalization of Cultural Heritage"
and at his press conference the phrase was positioned
as the top priority. Some proposed an idea that old
animations archived here and there are suitable content
to be transmitted to Asian countries. This kind of ideas
would comprise the action plan in a real sense. |
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Taking a look at the "15 billion dollars in five
years" proposed at the Kyushu-Okinawa Summit meeting,
some say "there is no progress due to proposals
on conventional projects from ministries." At this
study group, we will make an attractive action plan.
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| (6) Schedule from now on |
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Mr. TAJIRI, Senior Advisor for International
Public Relations of the International Policy Division, explained
the schedule in accordance with Reference Material 3-4 "Schedule
from now on (draft)" and the Secretariat is to inform
members of details of the fourth meeting.
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| (7) Closing |
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