[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 95 (Wednesday, May 18, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-12079]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--National Information Infrastructure Testbed
Notice is hereby given that, on December 7, 1993, 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 National Information
Infrastructure Testbed (``NIIT'') has filed written notifications
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:
AT&T, Basking Ridge, NJ; C&M Science Innovations, Limited, Berkeley,
CA; Cabletron Systems, Inc., Rochester, NY; Consortium for
International Earth Science Information Network, University Center, MI;
Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH; Dun & Bradstreet Information
Services, Murray Hill, NJ; Ellery Systems, Inc., Boulder, CO; Essential
Communications, North Andover, MA; Hewlett-Packard Company, Cupertino,
CA; IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC; Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, Livermore, CA; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,
NM; Network System Corporation, Minneapolis, MN; Northeast Parallel
Architecture Center, Syracuse, NY; Novell, Inc., San Jose, CA; Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN; Oregon State University,
Corvallis, OR; Pacific Bell, San Ramon, CA; Sandia National
Laboratories, Livermore, CA; Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Cambridge, MA; Sprint, Herdon, VA; Sun Microsystems Computer Corp.,
Mountain View, CA; SynOptics Communications, Inc., Santa Clara, CA;
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; University of California, Berkeley,
CA; and University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.
NIIT is a non-profit consortium of industry, government, and
academic leaders that is developing a nationwide, high-speed
distributed computing testbed. NIIT plans to utilize this testbed to
demonstrate a series of practical applications in areas such as the
environment, health care, and education. The consortium combines
existing communications, computing, and software technologies into a
working example of an integrated information infrastructure.
Membership in the NIIT is open to any organization with an
established presence in the United States. Foreign organizations may
also join NIIT on a case-by-case basis. Members pay annual dues to
defray administrative costs and fund demonstrations through working
groups that focus on specific applications, as well as infrastructure.
NIIT does not offer services commercially. The consortium plans to
explore and deploy a variety of new technologies in the area of
distributed computing and advanced communications but will not define
standards for the industry. NIIT's goal, as articulated in its charter
and bylaws, is to accelerate the development of an information
infrastructure industry in the United States and the world by
demonstrating the practical benefits of, and demand for, a series of
market-driven applications.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 94-12079 Filed 5-17-94; 8:45 am]
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