15306 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 56 / Thursday, March 23, 1995 / Notices

Notice Pursuant to the National

Cooperative Research and Production

Act of 1993; Corporation for Open

Systems International

Notice is hereby given that, on

September 28, 1994, pursuant to Section

6(a) of the National Cooperative

Research and Production Act of 1993,

15 U.S.C. § 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), the

Corporation for Open Systems

International (‘‘COS’’) has filed written

notification simultaneously with the

Attorney General and the Federal Trade

Commission disclosing changes in its

membership. The notifications were

filed for the purpose of extending the

Act’s provisions limiting the recovery of

antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages

under specified circumstances.

Specifically, the changes are as follows:

(1) Electric Power Research Institute

ceased membership in COS effective

July 24, 1994; (2) The BONDING

Consortium, Portsmouth, RI, has entered

into an Agreement with COS under

which COS will develop an

interoperability testing program for

communications equipment

implementing Bandwidth on Demand

(‘‘BONDING’’) specifications; (3) the

following organizations became

Associates of COS’s SONET

Interoperability Forum (the ‘‘Forum’’)

on the dates indicated: Alcatel Network

Systems, Richardson, TX, on June 30,

1994; Pacific Bell, San Ramon, CA, on

August 1, 1994; Reliance Electric,

Phoenix, AZ, on June 30, 1994; and

Retix, Santa Monica, CA, on August 1,

1994; (4) Wind River Systems, Inc.,

Alameda, CA, became an Auditing

Member of the Forum on June 30, 1994;

(5) The following organizations became

Patrons of the ISDN Solutions ‘94

project of COS’s ISDN Executive

Council, on the dates indicated; diehl

isdn GmbH, Leonberg, GERMANY, on

July 8, 1994; Intel Corporation,

Schaumburg, IL, on July 5, 1994; and

Pacific Bell, San Ramon, CA, on June

30, 1994; (6) Shure Brothers

Incorporated, Evanston, IL became an

Observer of COS’s Video

Teleconferencing Executive Interest

Group on July 15, 1994.

No other changes have been made in

either the membership or planned

activities of COS. Membership in COS

remains open, and COS intends to file

additional written notifications

disclosing all changes in membership.

On May 14, 1986, COS filed its

original notification pursuant to Section

6(b) of the Act. The Department of

Justice published a notice in the Federal

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the

Act on June 11, 1986, (51 FR 21260).

The last notification was filed by the

Department on June 13, 1994. A notice

was published in the Federal Register

pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on

October 27, 1994 (59 FR 54011).

Constance K. Robinson,

Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.

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Notice Pursuant to the National

Cooperative Research and Production

Act of 1993; National Information

Infrastructure Testbed

Noticeis hereby given that, on August

9, 1994, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the

National Cooperative Research and

Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301

et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), the National

Information Infrastructure Testbed

(‘‘NIIT’’) has filed written notification

simultaneously with the Attorney

General and the Federal Trade

Commission disclosing changes in

membership. The notifications were

filed for the purpose of extending 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 identities

of the additional members of NIIT are:

California Institute of Technology, Jet

Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA;

Center for the New West, Denver, CO;

Concurrent Technologies, Johnstown,

PA; Entergy Services, Inc., New Orleans,

LA; Hitachi Telecom, Inc., Norcross,

GA; Hughes Aircraft Corporation, Los

Angeles, CA; Intel Corporation,

Hillsboro, OR; MCNC, Research Triangle

Park, NC; Methodist Health Network of

Iowa, Des Moines, IA; Microelectronics

& Computer Technology Corporation,

Austin, TX; PeerLogic, Inc., San

Francisco, CA; Polaroid Corporation,

Cambridge, MA; University of Michigan

Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI; and

University of Southern California, Los

Angeles, CA.

No other changes have been made in

the membership, nature and objectives

of the consortium. Membership in NIIT

remains open, and the consortium

intends to file additional written

notifications disclosing all changes in

membership.

On December 7, 1993, NIIT filed its

original notification pursuant to Section

6(a) of the Act. The Department of

Justice published a notice in the Federal

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the

Act on May 18, 1994 (59 Fed. Reg.

25960).

The last notification was filed with

the Department on April 26, 1994. A

notice was published in the Federal

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the

Act on June 23, 1994 (59 FR 32463).

Constance K. Robinson,

Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.

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Notice Pursuant to the National

Cooperative Research and Production

Act of 1993 HDP User Group

International, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on

September 14, 1994, pursuant to Section

6(a) of the National Cooperative

Research and Production Act of 1993,

15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), HDP

User Group International, Inc., an

Arizona non-profit corporation, has

filed written notifications

simultaneously with the Attorney

General and the Federal Trade

Commission disclosing (1) identities of

the parties and (2) the nature and

objectives of the venture. 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 identities of the parties

are Ruben Bergman, Alvsjo, Sweden;

Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale,

CA; Alcatel, Aventom, Belgium; Digital

Equipment Corp., Maynard, MA;

Ericsson Telecom AB, Stockholm,

Sweden; International Business

Machines, Hopewell Junction, NY;

Nokia, Espoo, Finland; and Northern

Telecom, Ltd., Kanata, Ottawa, Canada.

The HDP User Group International,

Inc. Began in August, 1990, as an

informal group of companies from

Europe and North America whose goal

was to influence the development of

standard component assembly, and

interconnect technologies required for

dense electronic and opt-electronic

systems, or High Density Packaging.

HDP began operating under the VMEbus

International Trade Association in 1993,

operating as a user group with

representatives from within the

industry. Subsequently, HDP separated

from VMEbus and on June 15, 1994,

HDP incorporated as a nonprofit

corporation under the laws of the State

of Arizona. HDP supports, in concept,

open packaging technologies as opposed

to proprietary packaging technologies.

The general areas of planned activity

are as follows: (a) Collecting the

requirements for End Users and the

Industry; (b) collecting the requirements

of Users for pre-defined application

profiles, based upon supplier

opportunities; (c) defining preferred

concepts of packaging with Suppliers