[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 101 (Wednesday, May 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 28520]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-13288]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--Optical Internetworking Forum (``OIF'')
Notice is hereby given that, on February 25, 1999, pursuant to
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Optical Internetworking
Forum (``OIF'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in
its membership status. The notifications were filed for the purpose of
extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust
plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances.
Specifically, Avici Systems, North Billerica, MA; British
Telecommunications, London, United Kingdom; Level 3 Communications,
Louisville, CO; NIST, Gaithersburg, MD; Osicom Technologies,
Naperville, IL; SDL, San Jose, CA; Silk Road Corporation, San Diego,
CA; Terabit Networks, Los Altos, CA have joined OIF as principal
members. GiGA, Thousands Oaks, CA; KDD R&D Laboratories, Saitama,
Japan; University of Kansas; Lawrence, KS; Viag Interkom GmbH & Co.,
Munich, Germany; Wandel & Goltermann, Eningen u.A., Germany have been
added as auditing members. E.O.S.T., Jerusalem, Israel has changed its
name to Chairo Networks. WorldCom, Tulsa, OK: has changed its name to
MCI Worldcom. Bay Networks, Santa Clara, CA and Nortel, Ontario, Canada
have merged into a new company: Nortel Networks. GPT, Coventry, England
and Marconi SpA, Genova, Italy have merged into Marconi Communications.
The following have upgraded to principal membership: Furukawa Electric
Technologies, Santa Clara, CA; Net Insight, Stockholm, Sweden; Stratum
One Communications, Santa Clara, CA. Williams Networks, Tulsa, OK has
downgraded to auditing membership.
No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned
activity of the group research project. Membership in this group
research project remains open, and Optical Internetworking Forum
(``OIF'') intends to file additional written notification disclosing
all changes in membership.
On October 5, 1998, Optical Internetworking Forum (``OIF'') filed
its original notification pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The
Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register
pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on January 29, 1999 (64 FR 4709).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-13288 Filed 5-25-99; 8:45 am]
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