[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 250 (Monday, December 30, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79498-79499]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-31249]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Open-IX Association

    Notice is hereby given that, on December 3, 2013, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. Sec.  4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Open-IX Association 
(``Open-IX'') 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.

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    Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the name and principal place 
of business of the standards development organization is: Open-IX 
Association, Cambridge, MA. The nature and scope of Open-IX's standards 
development activities are: to encourage the creation and development 
of, and the investment in, internet exchanges by developing minimum 
standards of performance and common and uniform specifications for 
incoming and outgoing data, as well as physical connectivity and the 
real estate which houses or on which the exchange is located; and to 
improve the performance of internet exchanges by developing criteria 
and methods of measurement, leading to the establishment of minimum 
criteria and methods for certifying the satisfaction of such criteria.

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2013-31249 Filed 12-27-13; 8:45 am]
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