[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 13, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60897-60898]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-22885]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--The VMEbus International Trade Association

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 10, 2004, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), VMEbus International Trade 
Association (``VITA'') has filed written notifications simultaneously 
with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
(1) the name and principal place of business of the standards 
development organization and (2) the nature and scope of its

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standards development activities. 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 name and principal place 
of business of the standards development organization is: VMEbus 
International Trade Association, Fountain Hills, AZ. The nature and 
scope of VITA's standards development activities are: Definitions, 
specifications, requirements, and methods of test for computer buses 
(specifically, but not limited to VMEbus, Futurebus+, VSBbus) and 
associated software. These specifications will involve Electrical, 
Protocol (Logical), and Physical (Mechanical) layers for Massively 
Parallel Architectures, IPC (Interprocessor Communications) channels, 
AUTOBAHN and other serial buses, Mezzanine Buses for centralized I/O 
models, Multichip modules, Field Buses (serial buses) for distributed 
I/O models, Parallel-grouped serial Sub-buses (multiport architectures) 
with Block Transfer Mechanisms, Reflective Memory Architectures, and 
other Intracrate Computer Buses.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-22885 Filed 10-12-04; 8:45 am]
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