[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 193 (Monday, October 6, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 52152]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26424]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--IOPS.ORG Project
Notice is hereby given that, on July 2, 1997, pursuant to Section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the Corporation For National
Research Initiatives (``CNRI'') has filed written notifications on
behalf of a Joint Venture between CNRI and participants known as the
IOPS.ORG (``IOPS'') Project simultaneously with the Attorney General
and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the
parties and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. The
notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the Act's
provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual
damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the
Act, the identities of the parties are CNRI, Reston, VA; ANS CO+RE
Systems, Inc., Elmsford, NY; AT&T Corporation, Basking Ridge, NJ; BBN
Corporation, Cambridge, MA; EarthLink Network, Inc., Pasadena, CA; GTE
Intelligent Network Services Incorporated, Irving, TX; MCI
Telecommunications, Washington, DC; NETCOM On-Line Communications
Services, Inc., San Jose, CA; PSINet, Inc., Herndon, VA; Sprint
Communications Company, L.P., Kansas City, MO; and UUNET Technologies,
Inc., Fairfax, VA.
The nature of the Project will be to promote, in the public
interest, industry cooperation on the joint engineering efforts to help
ensure an operational global Internet, by addressing issues that
require coordination and information-sharing across and among Internet
service providers, and to support engineering analysis, system
simulation and testing, and interaction with other groups and
organizations as appropriate for the accomplishment of its goal of
improving the reliability and robustness of the Internet.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 97-26424 Filed 10-3-97; 8:45 am]
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