The WIDE Project (Widely Integrated Distributed Environment), founded in 1985 (32 years ago), is an Internet project in Japan. It runs a major backbone of the Japanese Internet and used to run the .jp 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.
It has operated the M root nameserver since 1997.
It has been a core proponent of IPv6 research, 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 RIPE-49 meeting in 2004