Notice2023-10207
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-World Wide Web Consortium, Inc.
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May 12, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 92 (Friday, May 12, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30783-30784]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10207]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--World Wide Web Consortium, Inc.
Notice is hereby given that, on March 15, 2023, pursuant to section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), World Wide Web Consortium, Inc.
(``W3C'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the
name and principal place of business of the standards development
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organization and (2) the nature and scope of its standards development
activities. 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 name and principal place
of business of the standards development organization is: World Wide
Web Consortium, Inc., Wakefield, MA. W3C was formed as a Delaware non-
stock member corporation, organized exclusively for exempt purposes
within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended (or the corresponding provision of any future United
States Internal Revenue Law). The nature and scope of W3C's standards
development activities are: In furtherance of such purposes, W3C is
organized and will be operated primarily to continue the work of the
unincorporated World Wide Web Consortium, with the charitable purpose
of inclusively developing interoperability standards for the
infrastructure of the World Wide Web (``Web''), so that all people may
safely and productively use the Web to participate in society and
improve their lives. W3C seeks to achieve its purpose by creating open,
consensus-based Web standards and guidelines to ensure that the Web
remains open, accessible, and interoperable for everyone around the
globe, through processes intended to promote fairness, transparency,
and accountability, and enable progress and greater responsiveness to
change. Without limiting the foregoing, W3C, through its member-driven
approach, will work to (a) foster a consistent architecture
accommodating the rapid pace of progress in Web standards for websites,
browsers, data-sharing applications, and devices to experience all that
the Web has to offer; (b) provide a neutral forum where organizations
around the world come together to create the technologies to most fully
realize the potential of the Web; (c) ensure that all foundational Web
technologies meet the needs of civil society, in areas such as
accessibility, internationalization, security, and privacy; (d) provide
standards that undergird the infrastructure for modern businesses
leveraging the Web in areas such as entertainment, communications,
digital publishing, and financial services; (e) promote advances of
important associated social and economic value; and (f) promote the
emergence of current and future transformative phenomena, such as
social media, e-commerce, video on the web, and video conferencing.
Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director, Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-10207 Filed 5-11-23; 8:45 am]
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