[Federal Register: December 2, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 231)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--The Frame Relay Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 22, 1999, 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 Frame Relay Forum (FRF) has 
filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General 
and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership 
status. 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, Nokia, 
Burlington, MA has joined FRF as a worldwide member; IIR Limited, 
London; Net Work Consult GmbH, Filderstadt, Germany; and Comnet Ietisim 
Hizmetleri, Instanbul, Turkey have joined FRF as auditing members. 
Also, Cyras Systems, Fremont, CA; Current Analysis, Sterling, VA; 
Helsinki Telephone Co. Ltd, Helsinki, Finland; Hill Associates, 
Colchester, VT; KDD America, Tokyo, Japan; Racal-Datacom, Inc., 
Sunrise, FL; SNET, New Haven, CT; State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA; 
Telecomm Multimedia, Irvine, CA; Xylan Corporation, Calabasas, CA; 
Hitachi Telecom (USA), Norcross, GA; Telco Systems, Waltham, MA; United 
Information Highway Co., Bangkok, Thailand; Secant Network 
Technologies, Morrisville, NC; BT, Ipswich, England; General DataComm, 
Inc., Middlebury, CT; Hekimian Laboratories, Inc., Austin, TX; NRTC, 
Herndon, VA; SAGEM, Paris, France; Sentient Networks, Milpitas, CA; 
SITA, Valbonne, France; Telematics International, Basingstoke, England; 
UniSPAN, Seattle, WA; Wandel & Goltermann, Research Triangle Park, NC; 
Midwest Information Systems, Maryland Heights, MO; ABL Canad, Montreal, 
Quebec, Canada; BT Telecommunications, Madrid, Spain; Case Technology, 
Walford Herts, England; and OMSI, Newark, CA have been Multimedia, 
Irvine, CA; Xylan Corporation, Calabasas, CA have been dropped as 
parties to this venture.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the group research project. Membership in this group 
research project remains open, and The Frame Relay Forum intends to 
file additional written notification disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On April 10, 1992, The Frame Relay Forum 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 July 2, 1992 (57 FR 29537).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on February 4, 
1999. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-31257 Filed 12-1-99; 8:45 am]
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