Careful evaluation needed: .tel

30 April 2004

Careful evaluation needed: .tel

Stance of JPRS

As the sponsoring organization and DNS operator for .jp top-level domain, JPRS exercises technical and operational leadership in management and administration of the domain. Also, JPRS believes that it has a role in preventing confusion or trouble on the Internet.

JPRS submits the following comment as a result of study of each application from the aforementioned standpoint. We expect ICANN's serious consideration of our comment.

Introduction of new TLDs may result in addition of new value and interest for the Internet community; on the other hand, it may result in unnecessary confusion and disbenefit of the community. Therefore, decision to introduce any of the proposed TLDs must be made based on the thorough evaluation of experience of the seven TLDs introduced in 2000.

We regard that this proposal is based on the idea based on ENUM with respect to matching domain name space and telephone number space.

As for ENUM, IAB, ITU, government authority and other related entities are studying this issue seriously. We desire that ICANN evaluates this proposal carefully, not to complicate the already difficult issue.

In addition, as the matching of domain name and telephone number is very important issue, we hope that investigation of the ENUM matters should be made thoroughly enough to resolve remaining challenges.

Sincerely,

Koki Higashida
President, Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd (JPRS)