[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 178 (Wednesday, September 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 55283]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23416]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 7, 2000, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the national Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), IMS Global Learning Consortium, 
Inc. has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney 
General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosure (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: The LUVIT Corporation AB, Lund, 
Sweden; Trustees of the California State University, Long Beach, CA; 
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY; PeopoleSoft, 
Inc., Pleasanton, CA; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA; Committee on Institutional Cooperation, 
Champaign, IL; and Educause, Boulder, CO.
    The nature and objective of IMS Global Learning Consortium are to 
formulate open technical specifications (including without limitation 
specifications for packaging and exchanging digitized information about 
courses, learners, content and education or training operations) for 
distributed learning environments, including related hardware and 
software; to promote the development of global distributed learning 
through the cooperative and collaborative efforts of universities, non-
profit organizations, agencies of federal and state governments, 
companies and other organizations that make a definitive, substantial 
and continuing commitment to the development, evolution and/or use of 
advanced distributed learning environments; to gather requirements from 
distributed learning customers and providers; to foster widespread 
access to, mutual sharing and adoption of the strategies and 
specifications developed by the organization, both by its members and 
by the general public; to collaborate with other associations or 
agencies interested in similar and related activities; to acquire, 
evaluate, and disseminate information in said areas, including, but not 
limited to, providing such information to the general public; and to 
prepare and disseminate training materials for use in distributed 
learning environments and conduct training and educational sessions 
pursuant to the development and use of the strategies and 
specifications developed by the organization.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-23416 Filed 9-12-00; 8:45 am]
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