The WIDE Project (Widely Integrated Distributed Environment) is an

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project in Japan founded by

Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endowmen ...

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, and

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that was started in 1985. It runs a major

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of the Japanese internet and used to run the

.jp The web address suffix .jp is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Japan. It was established in 1986 and is administered by the Japan Registry Services. History At the establishment of the .jp domain, the domain was administe ...

Top Level Domain (TLD). WIDE aims to integrate academia and industry in a single group that overcomes lines between organizations as an autonomous force utilizing new technologies for a better society. This mission has guided the actions of the project for two decades, and will continue to be a cornerstone of its activities. The president is

Jun Murai is a Japanese professor and administrator known as "the father of Internet in Japan" and "Internet Samurai". He is a professor at Keio University. Murai is the founder of JUNET and founder of the WIDE Project. Murai graduated from Keio Univer ...

, a professor of

Keio University SFC , also known as “Keio SFC” is a research-oriented campus of Keio University located in the city of Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The campus currently offers three undergraduate courses and two postgraduate courses, and incorporates o ...

. It has operated the M

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since 1997. It has been a core proponent of

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research (

KAME project The KAME project, a sub-project of the WIDE Project, was a joint effort of six organizations in Japan which aimed to provide a free IPv6 and IPsec (for both IPv4 and IPv6) protocol stack implementation for variants of the Berkeley Software Distrib ...

), development and deployment in Japan. The project was started as the WIDE Research Group in 1985. The WIDE project also conducted a study about the instability of the intra-domain routing which was presented on the Routing Workgroup of the

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-49 meeting in 2004Ripe meetings document
Routing WG - RIPE49
retrieved 15 November 2010

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Internet in Japan Internet properties established in 1985 1985 establishments in Japan {{Org-stub

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