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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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