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ISOC Document 94-317

Title:      Activities report from Japan Chapter of ISOC (ISOC-JP)
Author(s):  Haruhisa Ishida, Trustee
Date:       94.12.13
Committee:  ISOC BoT
Document:   94-332
Revisions:  rev.2
Supersedes: Prof.Ishida's earlier version
Status:     Released
Maintainer: Haruhisa Ishida (Trustee) and Shigeki Goto (Trustee)
Access:     Unrestricted

1. Inauguration    August 2, 1994
     The ISOC-JP had a kick-off meeting on this day and Mr.Tony Rutkowski
     (ISOC) was a keynote speaker. The main objective is to promote 
     Internet-related R & D activities so that Japan can produce more RFCs.

2. Membership     about 223 members (all ISOC members.)
		  Currently, no membership fees.

3. Cooperation with the IAJ (Internet Society of Japan which has 84 companies
     as members with no individual members.) 
     Since our membership is still very small, most of our activities will be
     done with the cooperation of R & D working groups of IAJ.

4. Officers
     Chair: Haruhisa Ishida (Trustee, University of Tokyo)
            Shigeki Goto (Trustee, NTT)
            Jun Murai (IAB, Keio University)
            Masataka Ohta (IETF participant, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
            Others

5. Activities (also contains IAJ activities* prior to ISOC-J was founded)
     *Meeting on December 6, 1993
	IAJ (Internet Association Japan) was established.
	About 100 people attended the meeting.
     *First IETF briefing on January 14, 1994
	A half day meeting for IETF briefing at the University of Tokyo
	held by IAJ.  The following topics were covered: 
           General introduction of IETF
           Overview of the 28th IETF
	   Application Area (MIME, gopher, I18N = Internationalization, etc.)
           Routing Area (OSPF, CIDR, BGP4, etc.)
	   Experience in developing mobility function and DHCP
	50 people attended.
     *Second IETF briefing on May 11, 1994
        A Half day meeting for IETF briefing at Tokyo Institute of
	Technology held by IAJ.  The following topics were covered:
           General introduction on IETF
           Overview of the 29th IETF
           Progress report on I18N
           Routing Area
           Security Area (firewalls ...)
           Progress report on mobility
           Report on IP over ATM
           IPng brief introduction
           Experience in attending IETF as a router vendor
           NIC and user services
        About 80 people attended.
      ISO-JP was granted by ISOC BoT on June 14, 1994 in Prague.
      The mailing-list for ISOC-JP was established.
      ISOC-J kick-off meeting and Third IETF briefing on August 2, 1994
	Full day ISOC-JP kick-off meeting & the third IETF briefing at the
	University of Tokyo.  The following topics were covered for IETF:
           Report of the last IETF (7/25~7/29) (Jun Murai, et.al.)
           General Introduction, IPng, Flows, Mobility, 
           Secure DNS, CIDR
        Opening Speech                   (Haruhisa Ishida, U.Tokyo)
        Internet R & D activities at NTT (Shigeki Goto, NTT)
        About the Internet & ISOC        (Tony Rutkowski, ISOC)
      About 150 people attended.
      The individual member of ISOC-JP is about 200.
      Joint symposium with JAIN (Japan Academic InterNet) on October 25-27
      in Kyushu 
         A number of R & D papers and demos were presented and broadcast on 
         Japanese MBONE through 2 ISDN lines.
      Fourth IETF briefing in January, 1995 (planned)

6. ISOC-JP Working Groups
         Internationalization  (Multi-lingual issues etc.)
         ISDN interoperability (with IAJ)
         Mobile communication  (with WIDE)

7. Internationalization of the Internet
      Throughout IAJ and ISOC-JP meetings, we have recognized that
      Internationalization of the Internet is important for Japan and
      Asia, while it is not necessarily realized in other regions.
      Thus, ISOC-JP will further promote the Internationalization of 
      the Internet thorough IETF activities.

8. Cooperation
      with IAJ, JPNIC, JAIN, WIDE, JCRN (Japan Committee for Research
      Networks), APNG (Asia & Pacific Networking Group, formerly APCCIRN)

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