4. JPNIC information services
JPNIC offers services with the help of the resources (JPNIC database,
other open documents/files) that JPNIC has through the network.
It is also planning to arrange and prepare network information,
information related to Japan, and provide pointers for achieving
information from other organizations.
In order to achieve the target, JPNIC has formed the Information Service
Working Group (IS-WG) from 1994. Although there are plans for increasing
information, strengthening operations, there are still several factors
that depend on volunteers. JPNIC will full-heartedly welcome comments
on how to enrich its services. So if there is anyone who would like to
help JPNIC with data or other services, then the person is requested to
send an e-mail to is-wg@nic.ad.jp.
Information offered by JPNIC at present (Please refer sec.13 to see its use)
4.1 Information category
1) Data managed by DB-WG (Database management working group)
(whois.nic.ad.jp is experimentally offering data through
mail-server, www and x.500)
Personal information related to network administration
(not the same as searching a general person)
Domain information (domain name), Network information (IP address)
Host information (name server), Project information (network project)
NOC information (Network Operation Center) etc.
2) JPNIC open documents
(documents under ftp.nic.ad.jp:/pub can be retrieved with
the help of mail-server, ftp, gopher, www)
a) Documents related to JPNIC (ftp:/pub/jpnic, jpnic-pub)
(rules of JPNIC, application form, minutes of steering
committee meeting, Q&A, list of JP domain names)
The list containing the domain names is regularly updated.
b) JPNIC members (network project) information
(ftp:/pub/member's directory)
This information contains documents given by each of
the network projects.
c) Others (jcrn, jepg-ip etc.) (ftp:/pub/jcrn, jepg-ip)
3) Information related to Internet that are copied/mirrored from
other sites (can be availed by using ftp,gopher,www)
InterNIC/RIPE NCC/ISOC/IETF etc. (ftp:/pub/internet)
4) Pointer information (can be availed by using gopher/www)
5) Others, access-log etc.
4.2 Theme in the future
To operate these information stably, we restructure allocation of computers
and data directories. We will soon provide the on-line version of published
JPNIC newsletters. And further, we requested translation of these newsletters
to be able to have access from overseas. About information of use statistics,
we are making a program that picks out a necessary file from access records
that have different form by every services.