Development of the National Registry Systemin Japan

Presentation for Pre-sessional consultations on registriesPresentation 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 - Cost ： 90 million yen (US$770,000)

(the 2002 fiscal year) System Vendor ： NTT 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

Accountholders

Public

Internet Data Center

METI

MOE

ExternalWeb server

DB server InternalWeb serverAP server

Internet

Communication line

System administrator

Registryadministrators

Firewall

DMZ

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