Press Release
14 March 2022
Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS)
Yuri Takamatsu of JPRS appointed to APTLD board of directors
Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President Koki Higashida)
today announced that Yuri Takamatsu, International Affairs Leader of JPRS, has been
selected for appointment to the board of directors of the Asia Pacific Top Level Domain
Association (APTLD), the organization for country-code Top Level Domain (ccTLD[*1])registries in the Asia Pacific region. Takamatsu will serve as a director on the board fortwo years until the Annual General Meeting in 2024.
Since its establishment in 1998, APTLD has played an important role in the developmentof ccTLDs in the Asia Pacific region by working as a forum for information exchange
regarding domain names and registry operations and by making contributions toInternet-related organizations including the Internet Corporation for Assigned Namesand Numbers (ICANN[*2]).
With regard in particular to the fast-track process for implementing internationalizedcountry code top-level domains (IDN ccTLDs) for which ICANN started accepting
applications in November 2009, JPRS took a leading role in the discussion at APTLD andforming this into a proposal for presentation to ICANN with the support of the relevantorganizations. This proposal became one of the triggers for the movement toward theworldwide deployment of internationalized domain names (IDNs)[*3], which is one of themajor achievements of APTLD.
Since 2015, Takamatsu joined the panel to establish Japanese Label Generation rules forroot zone (RZ-LGR) as one of its active members. She is also a member of ccPDP4 WorkingGroup, which is chartered by ICANN ccNSO (Country Code Supporting Organisation)[*4]to propose policies for the selection of IDN ccTLD strings and their variant management.
Making use of her experience of creating Japanese RZ-LGR, she contributes to theworking group. Moreover, since 2012 she has contributed to the association's activities
through her presentations at meetings and participation in Secretariat Performance
Review Working Group.
Selecting Takamatsu as a director of the board of APTLD is regarded as an affirmation-1-Press Releasefor her contributions to ccNSO and APTLD in the past.
As a company that supports the network infrastructure, JPRS will continue to makefurther efforts to improve the quality of its and fellow-ccTLD's services, and thereby
contributing to the development of the Internet and the building of a better future foreveryone, not only in Japan and the Asia Pacific region but throughout the rest of theworld.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------About JPRSJPRS is a leading service provider for management and registration of domain names
and for the domain name system (DNS) operations. The company was established onDecember 26, 2000. As a company dedicated to maintaining the Internet infrastructureof Japan, JPRS operates under a corporate philosophy which aims to contribute to theexpansion of the Internet and to building a better future for people and society.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Glossary*1.ccTLD
Acronym for country code Top Level Domain.
Top level domain allocated to each country or region. The .jp domain that represents
Japan is one such ccTLD.
*2.ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
It is the private sector, non-profit corporation created in 1998 in the US to coordinate
Internet infrastructure resources including domain names, IP addresses, protocols androot servers.
*3.Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
Domain names that include non-alphanumeric characters, are called "Internationalized
Domain Names (IDNs)". IDNs can contain various scripts in the world, such as Kanji,Hiragana, Katakana, Hangul, Cyrillic, Arabic.
*4.ccNSO (Country Code Names Supporting Organisation)
It is one of the organizations supporting the activities of ICANN. As an organization
supporting the entire ccTLD structure, ccNSO has the role of developing policy plans
related to global issues across all ccTLDs in cooperation with other supportingorganizations and committees of ICANN and acting as an advisory to the board of ICANN.
JPRS participates in ccNSO as the .jp registry administrator.

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Press Release-----------------------------------------------------------------------References
1. APTLD Board
https://aptld.org/about/board/
2. APTLD（Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association）
https://aptld.org/
3. ICANN（Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers）
https://www.icann.org/
4. ccNSO（Country Code Names Supporting Organisation）
https://ccnso.icann.org/
5. Japanese Generation Panel (JGP)
https://j-gp.jp/en
6. Policy Development Process (ccPDP4) - (de-)selection of IDN ccTLD Strings
https://community.icann.org/display/ccnsowkspc/Policy+Development+Process+%28ccPDP4%2
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