[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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