[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] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] BILLING CODE 4410-11-M