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Rust Foundation Updates Membership in National Research Venture

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On May 27, 2025, the Rust Foundation made official notifications with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission. These notifications were made under section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993. The law is found in 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. The notifications shared new changes in group membership.

Five new parties have joined the Rust Foundation’s research project. They are:

  • Fledgio Limited, London, UNITED KINGDOM
  • OpenAtom Foundation, Beijing, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
  • School of Computer Science at University of Bristol, Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM
  • Stichting Trifecta Tech Foundation, Nijmegen, KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
  • Tock Foundation, Seattle, WA

Three organizations have withdrawn as parties in the project. They are:

  • Dropbox Inc., San Francisco, CA
  • Embecosm, Southampton, UNITED KINGDOM
  • Knoldus Inc., Missisauga, CANADA

No other changes have taken place in either the membership or planned work of the research group. The membership in the group research project continues to stay open. The Rust Foundation will send more written notifications when new members join or leave.

The Rust Foundation first filed a notification for this venture on April 14, 2022. The Department of Justice published notice of that filing in the Federal Register on May 13, 2022 (87 FR 29384). The most recent notification before this was filed on March 19, 2025. Notice of that was published in the Federal Register on April 21, 2025 (90 FR 16702).

This information was filed by Suzanne Morris, Deputy Director of Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division, at the Department of Justice.


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