[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 165 (Friday, August 26, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 50408]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-16959]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Storage Bridge Bay Working Group, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 9, 2005, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et. seq. (``the Act''), Storage Bridge Bay Working 
Group, Inc. (``SBB'') 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: Storage 
Bridge Bay Working Group, Inc., Redwood City, CA. The nature and scope 
of SBB's standards development activities are: Promoting the computer 
industry by supporting and facilitating the development of 
interoperable and compatible storage components with reference to 
controller slot compatibility between and among storage solutions. 
These purposes include the objective of developing and publishing a 
``storage bridge bay'' specification that will serve as a reference and 
guideline for defining physical, mechanical, electrical and low-level 
enclosure management requirements for an enclosure controller slot that 
will support a variety of storage controllers from a variety of 
independent hardware vendors and independent software vendors. Any 
storage controller design based on this specification shall be able to 
fit, connect, and operate within any storage enclosure controller slot 
design based on the same specification.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 05-16959 Filed 8-25-05; 8:45 am]
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