16:30–18:10 Sep. 24, Room 3
Broadband access to internet is now understood to be a basic infrastructure of society. One of the interest for I3E is how broadband network changes society and businesses. Japan is now known as a society having the world highest penetration of broadband services. This panel session is to discuss on how the technology gives advantage to society and changes the business scene. P2P has a possibility to realize high broadband quality without excessive traffic of backbone network by proper control of location of peers. Important advantage of P2P is the possibility of rapid realization of new idea of services without hesitation of big organization which has traditional conflicting services. In this panel, various emerging P2P technologies are discussed including network management rules to harmonize conflicting opinions on P2P.
Prof. Tadao Saito
Dr. Tadao Saito received the Ph. D degree in electronics from the University of Tokyo in 1968.
Since then he was a lecture, an associate professor and a professor of the University of Tokyo,
where he is now a Professor Emeritus. Since June 2001, the Chief Scientist and CTO of
Toyota InfoTechnology Center, where he studies on variety of future ubiquitous information services
using wireless technology.
He worked in variety of subjects related to digital communication and computer networks.
His research includes variety of communication networks and its social applications such as ITS.
He is the chairman of Ubiquitous Networking Forum of Japan working for future vision of information society.
He is also the chairman of Next Generation IP Network Promotion Forum of Japan.
He wrote two books on electronic circuitry, four books on computer and two books on digital communication
and multimedia. Since 1995, he is Japanese representative of IFIP TC6 and
since 2005 he is the Japanese representative of IFIP GA.
Since 2007 he is the director of WiMax Forum Japan office to help deployment of WiMax in globally harmonized way.
From 1998 to 2002 he was the chairman of Telecommunication Business Committee of the Telecommunication Council of
Japanese government and contributed to regulatory policy of telecommunication business
for broadband network deployment in Japan. From 2005 to 2006, he was the president of
Institute of Electronics Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan.
He is a life fellow of IEEE and honorary member and fellow of IEICE.
Prof. Tohru Asami
Prof. Tohru Asami (asami@computer.org) was born on March 26th, 1952 in Gunma, Japan.
He received B.E. degree and M.E. degree in electrical engineering from Kyoto University,
and Ph.D. from University of Tokyo. In 1976, he joined KDD (KDDI).
Since that time, he has been working at KDD/KDDI R&D Laboratories in several research areas
such as facsimile terminals, UNIX-based data communication systems, network management systems,
and various access media to the Internet.
In 1985, he developed an accounting system for the Internet gateway for Japanese academic networks,
and until 1994 he was organizing the semi-commercial Internet gateway service
for Japanese academic networks in cooperation with of UUNET, EUNET, etc.
In 1997, he drove the first open xDSL Field Trial in Japan with several companies in Nagano Prefecture,
to promote the possibility of ADSL in the Japanese telecommunication environments.
After experiencing a board member of several Internet-related subsidiary companies of KDD/KDDI,
he was a C.E.O. from 2001, and then from 2005 a vice chairman of the board of directors of KDDI R&D Labs, Inc.
From Apr. 1, 2006, he has been a professor of The University of Tokyo
(Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Sciuence and Technology).
He is a member of the IEEE. From 2003 to 2005, he was a vice chairman of the board of directors of Information
System Society in The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Japan (IEICE-ISS).
Mr. Martijn Boekhorst
Mr. Martijn Boekhorst has architected and leads the team that delivered the peer-to-peer technology
that drives the Joost video experience. Prior to joining Joost in 2006, Martijn Boekhorst worked for IBM
where he started as an engineer and after 8 years of various technical and non-technical management positions
became Technology Practices Leader Benelux for its Application Services business unit.
Martijn Boekhorst holds multiple patents in fields ranging from graphics technology to
peer to peer datastream load balancing.
Looking forward, Martijn Boekhorst continues to focus on increasing the reliability and efficiency of
peer-to-peer technology for Joost, in particular in optimizing the large scale streaming of
high quality live video content over peer-to-peer technologies.
Dr. Stephen Collins
Since 2005, Dr. Stephen Collins has been Global Senior Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Skype.
He has responsibility for Skype's governmental and regulatory activities worldwide.
From 2000-2005, he was Director of International Public Policy at Yahoo! Inc.
In earlier professional lives he worked in the not-for-profit sector (German-British Forum, London),
academe (University of Birmingham), and UK government (Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London and Munich).
At various times he has held positions on the boards of the Internet Service Providers' Association UK, London;
the International Communications Round Table, Brussels; the European Digital Media Association, Brussels;
and the German-British Forum, London. He holds three degrees in International Relations and Political Science,
including a PhD from the University of Birmingham.
Mr. Yasu Taniwaki
Mr. Yasu Taniwaki, Division Director of ICT Strategy Policy Division, Global ICT Strategy Bureau,
MIC (Ministry of Internal affairs and Communications, Japan), joined the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
(currently MIC) in 1984. After serving in several positions, including ICCP Division of the OECD (1987-1989),
he served as Deputy-Director of the Telecommunications Policy Division (1993-1997),
where he dealt with several telecommunications policies such as the reorganization of NTT,
and a variety of deregulation programs of the Telecommunications Business Law (TBL).
After serving as Secretary to the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (1999-2000),
he served as Director for Telecommunications Policy, where he drafted a report on new
Japanese telecom competition schemes compiled by the Telecommunications Council in August 2002
and a report on layered competition models in the IP age, compiled by the Study Group on
New business Models in June 2002. He also contributed to setting up
the Telecommunications Dispute Settlement Commission and Japanese Universal Service Fund,
as well as to introduce the concept of “dominant regulations” through revision of the TBL in 2001.
After serving as Economic Counselor and Telecommunications Attaché at Embassy of Japan in US (Washington D.C.)
(2002-2005), he served as Director of Competition Policy Division (2005-2007) and
Director of Telecommunications Policy Division,
where he compiled “New Competition Promotion Program 2010”
(September 2006), “Mobile Business Revitalization Plan” and the report of Study Group on
network neutrality. He has served in his capacity since July 2008.
His work includes “Emerging Broadband Market and the Relevant Policy Agenda in Japan,”
Journal of Interactive Advertising (http://jiad.org), Volume 4, Number 1, Fall 2003,
Michigan State University and the University of Texas at Austin.
His publications in Japan include “Converging networks” Kanki Publishing Co. Ltd., September 2005,
“Who Rules the Internet?,” Nikkei BP Publishing Co. Ltd, July 2007, and “Mobile Business in Japan” Impress R&D Co. Ltd., May 2008.
13:20–15:00 Sep. 25, Room 3
Smart cards and tags represented by RFID and NFC have been recognized as technologies that promise to streamline and speed up inventories, supply chains and payment processes. The benefits to end consumers are also being realized by enabling improved on shelf availability and by providing the capacity to enhance the shopping experience. Smart cards and tags are being utilized throughout industry, and have become indispensable for a wide range of automated data collection, tracing and identification applications based on ubiquitous network technologies that would not be possible otherwise. This panel session's objective is to review the current status of standardization and business deployment, to identify remaining issues to be solved from both technology and business points of view, and to discuss future perspectives for achieving Ubiquitous Network Society.
Prof. Shiro Sakata
In preparation
Nobu Hayashi
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Mr. Dan Kimball
DANIEL W. KIMBALL, is a Principal at SRA International and under contract serves as the Lead Technical Advisor,
DOD Logistics Automatic Identification Technology Office, DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY.
He represents the Department of Defense at national and international standards meetings
in an effort to increase the harmonization between commercial AIT standards and DOD policy.
Mr. Kimball's responsibilities include primary focal point for the standardization and
technical integration of Automatic Identification Technology (AIT) within the Department of Defense.
Prior to his current position Mr. Kimball served as the program support contractor for the Navy AIT office,
and was the author architect of the renaissance of the Navy AIT program.
Mr. Kimball has presented Technical Papers at RIDEX 2007 and RFID Japan 2006, RFID/USN Korea ('05 and '06),
SCANTECH ('99), Front Line Expo ('01, '03 and '04) the Year 2000 Naval Logistics Conference.
Mr. Kimball is an active member of the leadership of numerous national and international AIT standards organizations
and currently serves as the Chairman of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS T6)
Committee on Air Interface Protocols for RFID, Secretary of the international working group (ISO/IEC JTC 1, SC31, WG5)
on Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS), and as Project Editor for the international standards
ISO 17367 Supply Chain Applications for RFID — Product Tagging
and ISO 17363 Supply Chain Applications for RFID — Freight Containers.
He served as Co-Chair of the DOD Working Group for Unique Identification (UID)
Business Rules and as Vice Chair of the DOD RFID Technical Working Group.
He is a founding member of the AIM Global RFID Experts Group.
Internationally, Mr. Kimball is the U.S. Head of Delegation to ISO/IEC-JTC1-SC31
on automatic identification and data collection and an active participant in the five subordinate working groups.
He also participates in international standardization work on aerospace part marking (ISO TC20/WG13),
freight container identification and tracking (ISO TC104/SC4/WG2),
Supply Chain Applications of RFID (ISO TC104/TC122 Joint Working Group).
At the national level Mr. Kimball is a member of the Material Handling Industries of America Committee
on automatic identification where he serves as Vice Chair of Subgroup 8 (AIDC).
Other national standards group participation includes the Consumer Electronics AIDC (R9) committee,
Materials Handling Subgroup 8 (AIDC), INCITS T20 (RTLS),
the Vice Chair of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to SC31 and the subordinate working groups.
Mr. Kimball was a member of the former Industrial Commercial Advisory Committee,
and the Shipping Container Marking and Labeling Committee and
the Business Process Group (Item Identification) of GS1-US (formerly the Uniform Code Council (UCC)).
Mr. Kimball is a permanent member of the US delegation to the NATO Asset Tracking Working Group
and is the author and custodian of the NATO Standardization Agreements on RFID and Unique Item Identification.
Mr. Kimball has been instrumental in the drafting and writing of the AIT portions of MILSTD 130L and MILSTD 129P,
and NATO Standardization Agreements on bar codes and shipping labels.
Mr. Kimball is a retired Navy Supply Corps Officer with over thirty-six years of experience
in naval supply and military logistics. His duty assignments include Supply Officer of four ships,
the last being the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA (CV-66). His areas of specialization include aviation supply,
transportation, and ordnance logistics and explosive ordnance safety.
Mr. Kimball earned a Master of Business Administration from the College of William and Mary,
a Master of Science in Quality Assurance from Southern Polytechnic State University and
a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame.
He is a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces,
the Armed Forces Staff College and the career course of the Navy Transportation Management School,
where he received the National Defense Transportation Award for academic excellence.
Mr. Kimball is a member of the Society of Logistic Engineers (SOLE),
and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA).
He has also served as the Chairman of Special Olympics Virginia Area 26 (Northern Virginia)
and as a member of the Board of Directors for Special Olympics Virginia.
Mr. Kimball resides in Port Townsend, Washington and has two sons; Sean in Reston,
VA and Christopher in San Diego, CA
Noboru Koshizuka
In preparation
Hiroki Tagato
In preparation
Toshihiro Yoshioka
In preparation
Panels
Two panel sessions were held in I3E 2008.