Development of the National Registry System in Japan

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Development of the National Registry Systemin
Japan
Presentation for Pre-sessional consultations on
registries
6/2/2003
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Development of the National Registry System in
Japan

• Overview
• Responsible Ministries
• Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI)
• Ministry of the Environment (MOE)
• Duration Nov. 2002 -
• Cost90 million yen (US770,000)(the 2002 fiscal
  year)
• System VendorNTT Data Corporation

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Summary of Functions in the National
Registry(system development in the 2002 fiscal
year)

• Account Management
• Opening/Closing accounts of each legal entity
• Credit Management
• Referring account information
• Issuing credits in the registry
• Transferring credits inside the registry
• Information Disclosure
• Disclosing information on the total amounts of
  credits and transactions inside the registry

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System Architecture
Internet Data Center
Account holders
Registry administrators
Firewall
DMZ
METI
Communication line
DB server
Internal Web server AP server
Public
External Web server
MOE
Internet
System administrator
DMZ DeMilitarized Zone
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Activities in the Development of the Interface
Specification

• Preparing possible scheme of the detailed
  functional specification of the interface
• Arranging functions of the interface between
  registry systems under the Marrakech accord
  (application of UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology)
• Specifying elements which each registry checks in
  advance so as for the entire registry system to
  stabilize
• Introducing at the IETA workshop (Feb. 2003)

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Future tasks in the system development

• Domestic challenges
• Reinforcement in security
• Development of e-application functions
• International challenges
• Contribution to the development of the detailed
  technical interface specification
• Development of functions in international
  transactions
• Expansion of information disclosure (according to
  the Marrakech accord)
• Development of function to check discrepancy in
  transactions
• Development of function to terminate transactions
  in case a discrepancy was found