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Council Communications Plan; discuss 

Fish Science Pages and State Data 

Collection Infographics; receive a 

presentation on the Next O&E Projects; 

Update on Fish Rules Commercial; and 

receive a meeting summary report from 

Outreach and Education Technical 

Committee. 

Mackerel Committee will receive an 

update on Coastal Migratory Pelagics 

Landings; review Draft Document: 

Coastal Migratory Pelagics Amendment 

32; discuss Gulf of Mexico King 

Mackerel. 

Tuesday, January 26, 2021; 9 a.m.–5 

p.m. 

Reef Fish Committee will review Reef 

Fish and Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) 

Program Landings, Implementation of 

National Environment Protection Act 

(NEPA Modernization, review Final 

Action items Framework Action: 

Modification of Gray Triggerfish Catch 

Limits, Framework Action: Modification 

of the Gulf of Mexico Lane Snapper 

Catch Limits and Accountability 

Measures, and Framework Action: 

Adjust State Recreational Red Snapper 

Catch Limits. 

The Reef Fish Committee will review 

SEDAR 70–Gulf of Mexico Greater 

Amberjack Stock Assessment and a 

White Paper on Sector Separation for 

Four Reef Fish Species. 

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery 

Management Council and National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration/National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NOAA/NMFS) will 

hold an informal Question and Answer 

session immediately following the Reef 

Fish Committee. 

Wednesday, January 27, 2021; 9 a.m.–5 

p.m. 

Reef Fish Committee will reconvene 

to review SEDAR 64—Stock Assessment 

Report and SSC Recommendations on 

Southeastern U.S. Yellowtail Snapper, 

Public Hearing Draft Amendment 53: 

Red Grouper Allocations and Annual 

Catch Level and Catch Targets, and 

discuss any remaining items from SSC 

Summary Report. 

After lunch, Full Council Session will 

convene with a Call to Order, 

Announcements, Introductions and a 

Presentation of the 2019 Law 

Enforcement Officer of the Year Award. 

The Council will continue with 

Adoption of Agenda, Approval of 

Minutes; and receive a presentation on 

Deepwater Horizon Open Ocean Fish 

Restoration and an update on Southeast 

For-hire Electronic Reporting (SEFHIER) 

Program. 

The Council will hold public 

testimony beginning at approximately 

2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m., EST for comments 

on Final Action Amendment Reef Fish 

48/Red Drum 5: Status Determination 

Criteria and Optimum Yield for Reef 

Fish and Red Drum; Final Action: 

Framework Action: Adjust State 

Recreational Red Snapper Catch Limits; 

Final Action: Framework Action: 

Modification of Gray Triggerfish Catch 

Limits; and, Final Action: Framework 

Action: Modification of the Gulf of 

Mexico Lane Snapper Catch Limits and 

Accountability Measures; and, and open 

testimony on other fishery issues or 

concerns. Public comment may begin 

earlier than 2:30 p.m. EST but will not 

conclude before that time. Persons 

wishing to give public testimony must 

follow the instructions on the Council 

website before the start of the public 

comment period at 2:30 p.m. EST. 

Thursday, January 28, 2021; 9 a.m.–4 

p.m. 

The Council will receive committee 

reports from Administrative/Budget, 

Outreach and Education, Mackerel, 

Sustainable Fisheries, and Reef Fish 

Committees. 

The Council will receive updates from 

the following supporting agencies: 

South Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council; NOAA Office of Law 

Enforcement (OLE); Louisiana Law 

Enforcement Efforts; Gulf States Marine 

Fisheries Commission; U.S. Coast 

Guard; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 

and Department of State. 

The Council will receive then discuss 

any Other Business items. 

— Meeting Adjourns 

The meeting will be broadcast via 

webinar. You may register for the 

webinar by visiting www.gulfcouncil.org 

and clicking on the Council meeting on 

the calendar. 

The timing and order in which agenda 

items are addressed may change as 

required to effectively address the issue, 

and the latest version along with other 

meeting materials will be posted on the 

website as they become available. 

Although other non-emergency issues 

not contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, in 

accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during these meeting. Actions 

will be restricted to those issues 

specifically listed in this notice and any 

issues arising after publication of this 

notice that require emergency action 

under Section 305(c) of the MagnusonStevens Act, provided that the public 

has been notified of the Council’s intent 

to take final action to address the 

emergency. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: January 5, 2021. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration 

[Docket No. 210105–0001] 

RIN 0660–XC049 

5G Challenge Notice of Inquiry 

AGENCY: National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration, U.S. 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Inquiry. 

SUMMARY: Through this Notice of 

Inquiry, the National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration, under sponsorship of 

and in collaboration with the 

Department of Defense 5G Initiative, is 

seeking comments and 

recommendations from all interested 

stakeholders to explore the creation of a 

5G Challenge that would accelerate the 

development of the open 5G stack 

ecosystem in support of Department of 

Defense missions. 

DATES: Comments are due on or before 

5 p.m. Eastern Time on February 10, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted by email to 

5GChallengeNOI@ntia.gov. Comments 

submitted by email should be machinereadable and should not be copyprotected. Written comments also may 

be submitted by mail to the National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 325 Broadway, Attn: 

Rebecca Dorch, Boulder, CO 80305. For 

more detailed instructions about 

submitting comments, see the 

‘‘Instructions for Commenters’’ section 

in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rebecca Dorch, National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 

80305; telephone (720) 215–6145; email 

rdorch@ntia.gov. Please direct media 

inquiries to NTIA’s Office of Public 

Affairs: (202) 482–7002, or at press@

ntia.gov. 


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1 47 U.S.C. 902(b)(2)(D). 

2 47 U.S.C. 901(b)(1)–(6). 

3Executive Office of the President, National 

Strategy to Secure 5G of the United States of 

America (Mar. 2020), https://www.whitehouse.gov/ 

wp-content/uploads/2020/03/National-Strategy-5GFinal.pdf. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Recognizing the vital importance of 

fifth-generation (5G) wireless 

communications to U.S. economic and 

security interests, the National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration (NTIA) of the U.S. 

Department of Commerce has made it a 

top priority to engage in 5G across a 

broad spectrum of topics. 

Commensurably, the Department of 

Defense (DoD) in 2019 established its 5G 

Initiative as a key modernization 

priority with the goal to advance U.S. 

and partner capabilities to fully leverage 

5G technologies for military networking 

needs. A key innovation in 5G that is 

becoming more pervasive in the larger 

5G ecosystem is the trend toward ‘‘open 

5G’’ architectures that emphasize open 

interfaces in the network stack. NTIA, 

under sponsorship of and in 

collaboration with the DoD 5G 

Initiative, is seeking comments and 

recommendations from all interested 

stakeholders to explore the creation of a 

5G Challenge that would accelerate the 

development of the open 5G stack 

ecosystem in support of DoD missions. 

Background: NTIA is the Executive 

Branch agency responsible for advising 

the President on telecommunications 

and information policy.1 NTIA was 

established in 1978 in response to the 

growing national consensus that 

‘‘telecommunications and information 

are vital to the public welfare, national 

security, and competitiveness of the 

United States,’’ and that, ‘‘rapid 

technological advances being made in 

the telecommunications and 

information fields make it imperative 

that the United States maintain effective 

national and international policies and 

programs capable of taking advantage of 

continued advancements.’’ 2 In the more 

than 40 years since its inception, NTIA 

has made growth and innovation in 

communications technologies—most 

recently 5G and beyond wireless 

communications—a cornerstone of its 

mission. The Administration’s 2020 5G 

Strategy reaffirmed that ‘‘the United 

States Government will work with the 

private sector, academia, and 

international government partners to 

adopt policies, standards, guidelines, 

and procurement strategies that 

reinforce 5G vendor diversity to foster 

market competition.’’ 3

NTIA’s Institute for 

Telecommunication Sciences: The 

Institute for Telecommunication 

Sciences (ITS) is NTIA’s spectrum and 

communications laboratory. It plays a 

central role in informing the 

formulation of the U.S. Government’s 

information and communications 

technology policies and additionally 

works on behalf of other U.S. 

Government departments and agencies 

in need of telecommunications 

engineering expertise. ITS works across 

a diverse telecommunications 

ecosystem with a primary focus on 5G 

communications. 

Technical Motivation for Challenge: 

Many innovations are being explored in 

the greater 5G economy. One movement 

that appears to be gaining traction 

across the ecosystem is the use of opensource implementations for various 

components of a 5G system. Among 

those components is the 5G protocol 

stack. The open 5G stack community is 

diverse, with a wide variety of 

organizations in academia, government, 

and private industry. Additionally, 

different open 5G stack organizations 

are focused on different portions of the 

stack, with no clear division among the 

multiple implementations currently 

available. And the various 

implementations are often created with 

the intention to be used with code 

sourced from a single organization, 

where interoperability among the 

community’s implementations is not 

guaranteed. 

Request for Comments: 

Through this Notice, NTIA is 

soliciting comments and 

recommendations from stakeholders on 

how a Challenge to accelerate the 

development of the open 5G stack 

ecosystem in order to support DoD 

missions could be constructed. These 

comments will help NTIA and the U.S. 

Government identify and mitigate the 

challenges in creating and executing a 

competition. They will also help NTIA 

leverage its engineering expertise to 

construct a Challenge that maximizes 

the benefit to both the open 5G stack 

market and the DoD on an accelerated 

schedule. 

For the purposes of this Notice, NTIA 

has organized these questions into three 

broad categories: (1) Challenge structure 

and goals; (2) incentives and scope; and 

(3) timeframe and infrastructure 

support. NTIA seeks public input on 

any and/or all of these three categories. 

Instructions for Commenters: NTIA 

invites comments on the full range of 

questions presented by this Notice, 

including issues that are not specifically 

raised. Commenters are encouraged to 

address any or all of the following 

questions. Comments that contain 

references to specific studies and/or 

research should include copies of the 

referenced materials with the submitted 

comments. Comments submitted by 

email should be machine-readable and 

should not be copy-protected. 

Commenters should include the name of 

the person or organization filing the 

comment, which will facilitate agency 

follow up for clarifications as necessary, 

as well as a page number on each page 

of their submissions. All comments 

received are a part of the public record 

and will generally be posted on the 

NTIA website, http://www.ntia.gov, 

without change. All personal identifying 

information (for example, name, 

address) voluntarily submitted by the 

commenter may be publicly accessible. 

Do not submit confidential business 

information or otherwise sensitive or 

protected information. 

I. Challenge Structure & Goals 

A. How could a Challenge be structured 

such that it would take advantage of 

DOD’s role as an early U.S. Government 

adopter of 5G technology to mature the 

open 5G stack ecosystem faster, 

encourage more participation in open 

5G stack development including 

encouraging new participants, and 

identify any roadblocks to broader 

participation? 

B. How could a Challenge be structured 

to focus on the greatest impediments to 

the maturation of end-to-end open 5G 

stack development? 

C. What should be the goals of a 

Challenge focusing on maturation of the 

open 5G stack ecosystem? How could 

such a Challenge be structured to allow 

for the greatest levels of innovation? 

What metrics should be used in the 

assessment of proposals to ensure the 

best proposals are selected? 

D. How will the open 5G stack market 

benefit from such a Challenge? How 

could a Challenge be structured to 

provide dual benefit to both the 

Government and the open 5G stack 

market? 

II. Incentives and Scope 

A. What are the incentives in open 5G 

stack ecosystem development that 

would maximize cooperation and 

collaboration, promote interoperability 

amongst varied open 5G stack 

components developed by different 

participants, and mature desired 

featured sets faster with greater 

stability? 

B. Could a Challenge be designed that 

addresses the issues raised in previous 

questions and also includes test and 

evaluation of the security of the 

components? 


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C. Could a Challenge be designed that 

would require participants to leverage 

software bill of materials design 

principles in the development of 

components for an open 5G stack? 

D. Many open 5G stack organizations 

have developed partial implementations 

for different aspects of an open 5G 

stack. What portions of the open 5G 

stack has your organization successfully 

developed with working code? What 

portions of the open 5G stack does your 

organization believe can be developed 

quickly (6 months or less)? What 

development support would best enable 

test and evaluation of the different 

elements of an open 5G stack? 

E. What 5G enabling features should be 

highlighted in the Challenge, such as 

software defined networking, network 

slicing, network function virtualization, 

radio access network intelligent 

controller, radio access network 

virtualization? 

III. Timeframe & Infrastructure 

A. What software and hardware 

infrastructure will be needed to 

successfully execute this Challenge? 

B. What is a reasonable timeframe to 

structure such a Challenge? Should 

there be different phases for such a 

Challenge? If so, what are appropriate 

timelines for each suggested phase? 

Dated: January 5, 2021. 

Kathy D. Smith, 

Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2021–00202 Filed 1–8–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–60–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No. PTO–T–2020–0035] 

Secondary Trademark Infringement 

Liability in the E-Commerce Setting 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Request for comments; 

reopening of comment period. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) 

published a request for comments in the 

Federal Register on November 13, 2020, 

seeking information from intellectual 

property rights holders, online thirdparty marketplaces and other third-party 

online intermediaries, and other private 

sector stakeholders on the application of 

the traditional doctrines of trademark 

infringement to the e-commerce setting. 

Through this notice, the USPTO is 

reopening the period for public 

comment until January 25, 2021. 

DATES: Comment date: Written 

comments must be received on or before 

January 25, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by one of the following methods: 

(a) Electronic Submissions: Submit all 

electronic comments via the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

www.regulations.gov (at the homepage, 

enter PTO–T–2020–0035 in the 

‘‘Search’’ box, click the ‘‘Comment 

Now!’’ icon, complete the required 

fields, and enter or attach your 

comments). The materials in the docket 

will not be edited to remove identifying 

or contact information, and the USPTO 

cautions against including any 

information in an electronic submission 

that the submitter does not want 

publicly disclosed. Attachments to 

electronic comments will be accepted in 

Microsoft Word or Excel or Adobe PDF 

formats only. Comments containing 

references to studies, research, and 

other empirical data that are not widely 

published should include copies of the 

referenced materials. Please do not 

submit additional materials. If you want 

to submit a comment with confidential 

business information that you do not 

wish to be made public, submit the 

comment as a written/paper submission 

in the manner detailed below. 

(b) Written/Paper Submissions: Send 

all written/paper submissions to: United 

States Patent and Trademark Office, 

Mail Stop OPIA, P.O. Box 1450, 

Alexandria, VA 22314. Submission 

packaging should clearly indicate that 

materials are responsive to Docket No. 

PTO–T–2020–0035, Office of Policy and 

International Affairs, Comment Request; 

Secondary Trademark Infringement 

Liability in the E-Commerce Setting. 

Submissions of Confidential Business 

Information: Any submissions 

containing confidential business 

information must be delivered in a 

sealed envelope marked ‘‘confidential 

treatment requested’’ to the address 

listed above. Submitters should provide 

an index listing the document(s) or 

information they would like the USPTO 

to withhold. The index should include 

information such as numbers used to 

identify the relevant document(s) or 

information, document title and 

description, and relevant page numbers 

and/or section numbers within a 

document. Submitters should provide a 

statement explaining their grounds for 

objecting to the disclosure of the 

information to the public as well. The 

USPTO also requests that submitters of 

confidential business information 

include a non-confidential version 

(either redacted or summarized) of those 

confidential submissions that will be 

available for public viewing and posted 

on www.regulations.gov. In the event 

that the submitter cannot provide a nonconfidential version of its submission, 

the USPTO requests that the submitter 

post a notice in the docket stating that 

it has provided the USPTO with 

confidential business information. 

Should a submitter fail to either docket 

a non-confidential version of its 

submission or post a notice that 

confidential business information has 

been provided, the USPTO will note the 

receipt of the submission on the docket 

with the submitter’s organization or 

name (to the degree permitted by law) 

and the date of submission. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Holly Lance, USPTO, Office of Policy 

and International Affairs, at 

Holly.Lance@uspto.gov or 571–272– 

9300. Please direct media inquiries to 

the USPTO’s Office of the Chief 

Communications Officer at 571–272– 

8400. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

November 13, 2020, the USPTO 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register requesting public input on the 

application of contributory and/or 

vicarious trademark infringement 

liability (secondary infringement 

liability) to e-commerce. See Request for 

Comments on Secondary Trademark 

Infringement Liability in the ECommerce Setting, 85 FR 72635 (Nov. 

13, 2020). In that notice, the USPTO 

indicated that it is seeking input from 

the private sector and other stakeholders 

as to the application of the traditional 

doctrines of trademark infringement to 

the e-commerce setting, including 

whether to pursue changes in the 

application of the secondary 

infringement standards to e-commerce 

platforms, in accordance with the call to 

action in the Department of Homeland 

Security’s January 24, 2020, Report to 

the President of the United States titled 

‘‘Combating Trafficking in Counterfeit 

and Pirated Goods.’’ To assist in 

gathering public input, the USPTO 

published questions, and sought 

focused public comments, on the 

effectiveness of the traditional doctrines 

of secondary trademark infringement in 

the e-commerce setting, and also invited 

recommendations for resolving any 

shortcomings in the application of these 

doctrines. The notice requested public 

comments on or before December 28, 

2020. 

Through this notice, the USPTO is 

reopening the period for public 

comment until January 25, 2021, to give 


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