[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 228 (Monday, November 29, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 69397]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-26204]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 23, 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''), MPLS and Frame Relay 
Alliance (``MFA'') 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 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: MPLS and 
Frame Relay Alliance, Fremont, CA. The nature and scope of MFA's 
standards development activities are: (1) Serving as a meeting ground 
for companies that are creating and deploying products that implement 
MPLS, or services that depend on the capabilities introduced by MPLS 
and its associated technologies; (2) identifying, selecting, 
augmenting, as appropriate, and publishing MPLS implementation 
agreements drawn from appropriate national and international, defacto, 
and dejure standards; (3) identifying, selecting, augmenting, as 
appropriate, and publishing frame relay implementation agreements drawn 
from appropriate national and international, defacto, and dejure 
standards; (4) promoting/fostering the measurement, demonstration and 
testing of frame relay products in order to further compatibility and 
interoperability; (5) conducting cooperative research; (6) developing 
proposals to be made to appropriate national and international 
standards bodies in order to further system compatibility and 
interoperability; and (7) developing publications and informational 
materials. ``Implementation agreement(s)'' shall mean specifications, 
protocols, system architectures and other similar guidelines related to 
multi-protocol label switching and/or frame relay technologies that may 
be developed, adopted, published or otherwise made available to the 
public by the Corporation.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-26204 Filed 11-26-04; 8:45 am]
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