KRA Dis-Trust

[John Young <jya@pipeline.com>]

Federal Register: February 27, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 39)
[Page 10040-10041]
>From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Key Recovery Alliance (``KRA'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 20, 1997, pursuant to 
Sec. 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the Key Recovery Alliance 
(``KRA'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) The 
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 plaintiff's to 
actual damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Sec. 6(b) of 
the Act, the identities of the parties are: Apple Computer, Inc., 
Cupertino, CA; Cylink Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA; Data Securities 
International, Inc., San Diego, CA; Digital Equipment Corporation, 
Nashua, NH; Golden Star Technology, Inc.,

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Cerritos, CA; Information Resource Engineering, Inc., Baltimore, MD; 
Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR; International Business Machines, 
Inc., Somers, NY; Motorola, Scottsdale, AZ; NCR, West Columbia, SC; 
Novell Inc., Provo, UT; Sourcefile, Atlanta, GA; Sun Microsystems, 
Inc., Mountain View, CA; Trusted Information Systems, Inc., McLean, VA.

    KRA was formed for the following purposes: (a) Stimulate global 
electronic commerce by encouraging the harmonization of market driven 
solutions available globally for secure communication using strong 
encryption; (b) serve as a focal point for industry efforts to develop 
commercially acceptable solutions for recovery of encrypted 
information; (c) determine interoperability concerns and potential 
architectural solutions among key recovery technologies and non-key 
recovery technologies; (d) support the development of a global 
infrastructure that supports recovery of encrypted information and (e) 
promote the implementation, deployment and use of interoperable key 
recovery technologies in the market. In furtherance of the foregoing 
purposes, KRA may undertake research, development, analysis, testing, 
study, and experimentation concerning or relating to key recovery 
technologies, and it may engage in the collection, exchange and 
analysis of research information concerning key recovery technologies.

    Additional parties may become members of KRA. KRA will file 
supplemental written notifications disclosing all new members.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-5014 Filed 2-26-98; 8:45 am]
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