[Federal Register: July 16, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 137)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Information Card Foundation

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 2, 2008, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Information Card Foundation has 
filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General 
and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the 
parties to the venture 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 
to the venture are: Mary Ruddy (individual member), Arlington, MA; 
Pamela Dingle (individual member), Calgary, Alberta, CANADA; Axel 
Nennker (individual member), Berlin, GERMANY; Paul Trevithick 
(individual member), Brookline, MA; Patrick Harding (individual 
member), Concord, MA; Drummond Reed (individual member), Seattle, WA; 
Andrew Hodgkinson (individual member), Pleasant Grove, UT; Eguif ax, 
Atlanta, GA; and Paypal, San Jose, CA. The general areas of Information 
Card Foundation's planned activity are (a) To promote and support the 
development and global adoption of an open, trusted, accessible, 
interoperable identity layer within the internet that maximizes control 
over personal information by individuals (the ``Identity Layer''); (b) 
to promote and support the development and global adoption of open, 
accessible interoperability recommendations, solutions, standards and 
specifications relating to the Identity Layer and information cards 
(``i-cards'') used to gain and provide access to information within the 
Identity Layer (``Specifications'') , including without limitation, 
Specifications relating to user experience conventions and 
certification; (c) to promote the Specifications; (d) to provide for 
testing and conformity assessment of implementations in order to ensure 
and/or facilitate compliance with Specifications; (e) to operate a 
branding program based upon distinctive trademarks to create high user 
awareness of, demand for, and confidence in the Information Layer, i-
cards and products designed in compliance with Specifications; and (f) 
to undertake such other activities as may from time to time be 
appropriate to further the purposes and achieve the goals set forth 
above.

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E8-15668 Filed 7-15-08; 8:45 am]

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