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

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

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

System Architecture Internet Data Center Account holders Registry administrators Firewall DMZ METI Communication line Public External Web server DB server Internal Web server AP server MOE Internet System administrator DMZ: DeMilitarized Zone

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)

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