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During this expansion of the networked computing, there was a movement to connect the growing number of academic networks to each other. As most know, [[TCP/IP]] was selected as the protocol that would achieve this goal and lead to what we now know as the Internet. In Japan in 1985, Dr. Murai took the lead in establishing the Widely Integrated Distributed Environment, which created the experimental [[WIDE]] Internet, which adopted use of TCP/IP. After successful experimentation, it became the WIDE Project and began official operations in 1988 and connected to the [[NSFNET]] in 1989, forming a major part of the backbone for the Japanese Internet.
During this expansion of the networked computing, there was a movement to connect the growing number of academic networks to each other. As most know, [[TCP/IP]] was selected as the protocol that would achieve this goal and lead to what we now know as the Internet. In Japan in 1985, Dr. Murai took the lead in establishing the Widely Integrated Distributed Environment, which created the experimental [[WIDE]] Internet, which adopted use of TCP/IP. After successful experimentation, it became the WIDE Project and began official operations in 1988 and connected to the [[NSFNET]] in 1989, forming a major part of the backbone for the Japanese Internet.
==History of Internet Resources==
When JUNET launched it used .junet as a top-level domain, which was used until 1989 when the Japanese Internet community migrated to .jp as global rules regarding top level domains were developed. During this migration, the convention of registering names directly at the second level was replaced with organizational categories at the second level and registrations at the third level.
Initial administration of .jp was handled by Dr. Murai within the “junet-admin” group, but with the growing demands for Internet resources, it became evident that a new solution was needed. As a result, the Japan Committee for Research Networks (JCRN) was formed and subsequently created the Japan Network Information Center (JNIC) in 19921 to manage and administer the .jp ccTLD.