JPRS Comments on the WCIT12

[HiroHOTTA <hotta@xxx>]

We appreciate being given the opportunity to express our views on 
ITR and WCIT responding to the public call made by ITU.

Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS) is a private company that 
serves as Japanese ccTLD (.jp) registry.  It makes contribution to 
the global and local Internet resource management in coordination 
with ICANN, JPNIC, Japanese government, and other entities.  It 
makes various other contributions as well to the Internet growth 
and development through IETF, ISOC, and so on.

Here we submit our comments from the standpoint of a ccTLD registry, 
which serves to the Internet infrastructure mainly through domain 
name management and domain name system (DNS) operation.

One of the indispensable nature of the Internet is "equally 
connecting every corner of the world".  It has been the strong will 
and autonomous activities of various stakeholders, mainly of private 
sector entities, that have served as driving force of the growth and 
development of the Internet.  Such activities, among others, include 
policy setting, technical standardization, and operation of the 
Internet.  Below are the examples of the forums yielding such 
activities.

ICANN continuously contributes to the security and stability of the 
domain name system by coordinating the technical aspects of the 
Internet resource management.  The outstanding nature of ICANN is 
that its activities are based upon open participation of 
multistakeholder entities from governments, private sector, civil 
society, and other related area.  This participation framework 
strengthens the nature of the Internet, that is, "equally 
connecting every corner of the world".

ISOC has contributed to the growth and development of the Internet, 
especially by creating the fields, such as IAB and IETF, for 
engineers around the world to gather and openly discuss the 
standardization of the technical protocols and to bear standard 
protocol specifications as RFC documents.

Another example is Network Operators Groups (NOG's).  In various 
regions and countries, engineers in network operation community have 
formed NOG's as open community forums to share experience and 
discuss about sound operation of networks within each NOG and across 
NOG's.

As exemplified above, frameworks that have served as driving force 
of the Internet growth and development are based on open and 
bottom-up multistakeholder model.

Since demand for the Internet grows and changes rapidly, Internet 
technologies and services are required to be evolved continuously as 
rapidly as the demand.  The speed of the growth and development of 
the Internet has relied on, and will further rely on, the frameworks 
whole community have devised to realize.

In conclusion, we support the open and bottom-up multistakeholder 
model so that the Internet continues to evolve and equally connects 
every corner of the world.

As to the ITR and WCIT, we have strong concern that the speed of 
growth and development of the Internet would seriously ruined, if 
intergovernmental organizations and/or national governments should 
have excess influence to the policy and technical development by 
means of international treaties and/or national regulations.  We 
strongly hope such situation is avoided.

We pay our respect to the effort by parties and individuals involved 
in the Internet growth and development so far and expect the 
discussions in coming WCIT will lead to further sound development 
and more secure and stable Internet infrastructure.


Koki Higashida
President
Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd.