[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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