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WIDE Project
10th Anniversary Symposium

1998.10.27. Tokyo

About 134 invited guests and 145 WIDE researchers participated in the symposium and enjoyed fruitful discussion.

Historical goods of the WIDE and Japanese Internet, posters explaining working group researches, and video messages from the internet researchers of the world, were exhibited at the symposium.

The video of all the lectures and panel discussions are available on this CD. Click the TV-Icon and Enjoy !

TIME PROGRAM

12:30-12:40 Welcome Message
Jun Murai - President, WIDE Project

12:40-13:40 Keynote Speech "Internet2: the Next Generation Internet"
Lawrence H. Landweber - Internet2 Project
SUMMARY
The history of the Internet is briefly described. Current trends is then be discussed, including the growth of Internet commerce, the use of the Internet for new and more demanding applications, and the unprecedented worldwide growth in numbers of users. These trends require a major reworking of parts of the core Internet technology. This, together with support for new applications, are major foci of the U.S. Internet2 and its partners in other countries. The talk is closed with a discussion of the potential impact of the Next Generation Internet in various sectors.

13:40-14:00 BREAK

14:00-15:30 PANEL - "Next Internet Protocol - do we need IPv6 ?"
Chair: Hiroshi Esaki - Tokyo University, Computer Center
PANELISTS
Jun Murai - Keio University
Paul Francis - NTT Laboratory
Seiichi Morikawa - Cisco Systems, Japan
Naoya Ikeda - Hitachi
SUMMARY
IPv6 is attracting us as a new Internet protocol to provide us the essential features for the next generation information infrastructure, such as security and reliability. Those features are not successfully implemented with IPv4.
In this session, each panelists presented their position on the IPv6 and discussed the future direction and possibility.

15:30-17:00 PANEL - "Next generation of Internet and the Role of Japan"
Chair: Jun Murai - Keio University
PANELISTS
Shunpei Kumon - International University, Global Communication Center
Tomonori Aoyama - Tokyo University
Joichi Ito - President, Digital Garage
Shin Yoshimura - Media Exchange
SUMMARY
Recently, we hear many people quesion "Why Japan is so behind with the Internet ?". Is it true ? Are we really behind ? WIDE members believe "no", because they know some of the Internet technology were actually lead by Japanese researchers. Each panelists addresses the current problems in Japanese Internet environment from various aspects including business and technology.

17:30-19:30 RECEPTION

After warm speeches by some WIDE friends, Osamu Nakamura presented selected old pictures.

TIME	PROGRAM
12:30-12:40	Welcome Message Jun Murai - President, WIDE Project
12:40-13:40	Keynote Speech "Internet2: the Next Generation Internet" Lawrence H. Landweber - Internet2 Project SUMMARY The history of the Internet is briefly described. Current trends is then be discussed, including the growth of Internet commerce, the use of the Internet for new and more demanding applications, and the unprecedented worldwide growth in numbers of users. These trends require a major reworking of parts of the core Internet technology. This, together with support for new applications, are major foci of the U.S. Internet2 and its partners in other countries. The talk is closed with a discussion of the potential impact of the Next Generation Internet in various sectors.
13:40-14:00	BREAK
14:00-15:30	PANEL - "Next Internet Protocol - do we need IPv6 ?" Chair: Hiroshi Esaki - Tokyo University, Computer Center PANELISTS Jun Murai - Keio University Paul Francis - NTT Laboratory Seiichi Morikawa - Cisco Systems, Japan Naoya Ikeda - Hitachi SUMMARY IPv6 is attracting us as a new Internet protocol to provide us the essential features for the next generation information infrastructure, such as security and reliability. Those features are not successfully implemented with IPv4. In this session, each panelists presented their position on the IPv6 and discussed the future direction and possibility.
15:30-17:00	PANEL - "Next generation of Internet and the Role of Japan" Chair: Jun Murai - Keio University PANELISTS Shunpei Kumon - International University, Global Communication Center Tomonori Aoyama - Tokyo University Joichi Ito - President, Digital Garage Shin Yoshimura - Media Exchange SUMMARY Recently, we hear many people quesion "Why Japan is so behind with the Internet ?". Is it true ? Are we really behind ? WIDE members believe "no", because they know some of the Internet technology were actually lead by Japanese researchers. Each panelists addresses the current problems in Japanese Internet environment from various aspects including business and technology.
17:30-19:30	RECEPTION After warm speeches by some WIDE friends, Osamu Nakamura presented selected old pictures.

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WIDE Project10th Anniversary Symposium

1998.10.27. Tokyo

WIDE Project
10th Anniversary Symposium