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December 11, 2002, 10:00 - 11:45 |
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Conference Room 801, 8th floor, Headquarters, MPHPT |
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| (1)Members (alphabetical order; titles omitted
from names) |
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ASABA Toshiya, ASAI Hiroshi, FUJITA Satoshi
(substitute attendant: YAMAZAKI), GOTO Shigeki, IMAI Keiichi,
ISHII Kenichi, KATO Toshiyuki, KISHI Hirokazu, KONISHI Kazunori,
LIM Kian Soon (substitute attendant: NISHI), LIU Dong (substitute
attendant via telephone: LU), MIKURIYA Toshio, OKI Toshie,
Yong-Jin PARK (via telephone), SAGA Kenji, SHIBASAKI Yoshitaka
(substitute attendant: HARADA), SHIOMI Tadashi, TAKAHASHI
Toru, TAKAHASHI Toshinori, TANAKA Toshiki, 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; ASAMI, Director of the International Cooperation
Division; MIYASHITA, Senior Advisor of the International Cooperation
Division; MIHARA, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation
Division
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| (1)Opening |
| (2)On the public comments toward the Points
of Report |
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Mr. TAJIRI, Senior Advisor for International Public Relations
of the International Policy Division, made an explanation
on the public comments toward the Points of Report in line
with the Reference Material 6-1 "Results of the Invited
Public Comments toward the Points of Report." |
| (3)On the Report (draft) |
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Mr. TAJIRI made an explanation on the Reference
Material 6-2 "Report (draft) [members only]." |
| (4)Opinion exchange |
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At the Asia & Pacific Internet Association (APIA),
a hot topic is the need to prepare international IXs
in the Asia-Pacific region. For example, there was an
initiative to prepare an international IX for covering
Nepal's traffic, the IX in question was actually constructed.
Such initiatives have been arising around Asian countries/economies.
Thus, it is vital to carry out research and study on
comprehensive measures to prepare broadband infrastructures
in Asia. |
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The Asia Pacific Broadband Summit 2002 Tokyo was
convened by the Internet Association Japan (IAJapan),
the Internet Association of Korea (IAK) and the Internet
Society of China (ISC), with the purpose of contributing
to development of the industry which make use of broadband
in the Asia-Pacific region. At the Summit, the three
Internet organizations came to conclude a trilateral
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concerning promotion
of cooperative ties among the three. Based on this MoU,
the three agreed to continuously hold the Asia Pacific
Broadband Summit, and to deploy various activities.
Next year's Summit will be held in Beijing. Please recognize
that in addition to efforts at the ministerial level
among the three countries, such initiatives at the private-sector
level are in progress. |
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At the IPv6 Promotion Council, verification experiments
were conducted between Japan and China and recently
verification experiments were also carried out between
Japan and Korea. This Report shall contain such efforts
of the IPv6 Promotion Council. |
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A project for translation contained in a public comment
sent from the Center of the International Cooperation
for Computerization (CICC) is important -- in other
words, preparation of dictionaries is vital. This suggests
that one of reasons why Japan, China and Korea became
leading countries is dependence on the dictionaries.
When looking into Southeast Asia, countries/economies
in the region lack such dictionaries. Preparation of
dictionaries requires labor-intensive work. Under such
a declining economic climate, taking into consideration
the bearish private-sector investment, governments should
try to drum up new public investment for this kind of
business. |
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This Report says that preparation of statistics is
vital. At present, however, basis for statistics on
diffusion rates differ from country/economy to country/economy.
Accordingly, in a sense, it is meaningless to set forth
diffusion rates as numerical goals. With respect to
unified methods for carrying out surveys on numerical
data, it is critical to build shared recognition promptly
and internationally. |
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In "Chapter II. Current status and challenges" of this Report, "(1) Domestic infrastructures
and (3) R&D networks in Asia (testbeds)"
are separately set, however, in "2) International
infrastructure preparation in the Asian region"
of "Chapter III. Measures to be taken, " they are integrated. As a result, descriptions on R&D
networks become ambiguous. |
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Descriptions on efforts of Japan-China-Korea are included
in "(2) International infrastructures,"
"Chapter II. Current status and challenges" of this Report. In addition, considering that networks
linking Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia have become
a focus of attention, this should be included in this
Report. |
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This report is rich in content. I would like to give
thanks to the Secretariat for reflecting the opinions
of Members. I believe that it is vital to take feasible
and gradual actions. |
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| (5)Closing address from the Chair |
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Upon closing of the Study Group, Chair GOTO
Shigeki gave a closing address. |
| (6)Closing address from Vice-minister TSUKIO |
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Upon closing of the Study Group, Vice-Minister
TSUKIO gave a closing remark. |
| (7)Closing |
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