[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 46 (Thursday, March 8, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13968-13969]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5708]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Broadband Content Delivery Forum, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 25, 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''), Broadband Content Delivery Forum, 
Inc. 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 identifies of the parties are \24/7\ Media, Incorporated, New 
York, NY; 2Wire, San Jose, CA; 3NO Systems Incorporated, Tinton Falls, 
NJ; Akamai Technologies Incorporated, Cambridge, MA; AppsPoint 
Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA; AT&T Broadband LLC, Englewood, CA; BANDWIZ 
LTD., Tel Aviv, ISRAEL; Be Here Corporation, Cupertino, CA; Bertelsmann 
Broadband Group, Hamburg, GERMANY; British Broadcasting Corporation 
(BBC), London, England, UNITED KINGDOM; Broadband Digital Group, 
Incorporated, Newport Beach, CA; BroadJump Incorporated, Austin, TX; 
BT, London, England, UNITED KINGDOM; Brust, San Francisco, CA; Cidera, 
Laurel, MD; COLO.COM, Brisbane, CA; Context Media, Incorporated, 
Providence, RI; Digital Fountain Incorporated, San Francisco, CA; 
DSLnetworks.com, San Francisco, CA; Ellacoya Networks Incorporated, 
Merrimack, NH; Entera, Fremont, CA; FirstMark Communications 
International, London, England, UNITED KINGDOM; Funk Software, 
Cambridge, MA; Global Telesystems Group (GTS), London, England, UNITED 
KINGDOM; Gotham Broadband, New York, NY; Harris Corporation, Melbourne, 
FL; Hewlett-Packard Company, Cupertino, CA; Huawei Technologies Company 
Ltd., Shenzhen City, PEOPLE's REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Hughes Space & 
Communications, Los Angeles, CA; ICTV, Incorporated, Los Gatos, CA: 
iknowledge Incorporated, Lexington, MA: Image Power, Vancouver, British 
Columbia, CANADA; iMagic TV Incorporated, Saint John, New Brunswick, 
CANADA; Incanta Incorporated, Atlanta, GA; InfoLibria

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Incorporated, Waltham, MA; InfoSpace, Redmond, WA; Inktomi Corporation, 
Foster City, CA; Innovatia, Saint John, New Brunswick, CANADA; 
Interactive Enterprise, Dublin, IRELAND; Info Networks, Cambridge, MA; 
Lucent Technologies, Alpharetta, GA; Massive Media Group, Santa Monica, 
CA; Mirror Image Internet, Woburn, MA; Motorola, Mansfield, MA; MTVi 
Group, New York, NY; Net Continuum, Santa Clara, CA; NetActive 
Incorporated, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA; Network Equipment Technologies, 
Fremont, CA; New Paradigm Ventures, Palo Alto, CA; Nokia Networks, 
Petaluma, CA; Nomadix, Westlake Village, CA; Nortel Networks, Santa 
Clara, CA; Northpoint Communications, San Francisco, CA; Omneon Video 
Networks, Sunnyvale, CA; OneSecure, Santa Clara, CA; Path 1 Network 
Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA; Peak XV Networks, Pleasanton, CA; 
PixStream Incorporated, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA; Pulsent Corporation, 
Milpitas, CA; Redback Networks Incorporated, Sunnyvale, CA; Reliacast 
Incorporated, Herndon, VA; Riverstone Networks, Reading, Berkshire, 
UNITED KINGDOM; Seabridge, Hod Hasharon, ISRAEL; SkyStream Networks, 
Mountain View, CA; Spacedisk Inc., Londonderry, NH; Speedera Networks, 
Santa Clara, CA; Sprint Corporation, Westwood, KS; StarGuide Digital 
Networks Incorporated, Reno, NV; Sun Microsystems Incorporated, Palo 
Alto, CA; Svenska Bredbandsbolaget AB, Stockholm, SWEDEN; Syndeo 
Corporation, Cupertino, CA; TelePacific Communications, Los Angeles, 
CA; Telseon, Palo Alto, CA; Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX; TRW 
Ventures, Redondo Beach, CA; Visual Media LLC, Chicago, IL; Williams 
Communications Group, Tulsa, OK; World Com, Colorado Springs, CO; 
XOSoft, Givataim, ISRAEL; Zhone Technologies, Oakland, CA; Zyan 
Communications Incorporated, Los Angeles, CA; and Broadband Content 
Delivery Forum, Inc., Mountain View, CA. The nature and objectives of 
the venture are to be an open, nonprofit independent organization that 
promotes the growth and development of the broadband content delivery 
industry; to bring together parties who are contributing to broadband 
content delivery; to discuss, to promote, and to develop the 
applications and services market for broadband content delivery; to 
explore methods for creating commercial benefits for service/content 
providers and network operators while increasing value to the end-user; 
to address issues relating to the development of broadband content 
delivery, including, without limitation, the protection of intellectual 
property rights, security, privacy, personalization, and economics; to 
recommend and to develop open architectures to deliver rich, multimedia 
content over the emerging broadband networks, to improve end-user 
experience through improved performance and personalization; and to be 
a liaison with other industry forums and associations in related 
industries and related technologies.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-5708 Filed 3-7-01; 8:45 am]
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