FEDERAL IMPLEMENTATION CONVENTIONS FOR ASC X12 TRANSACTIONS 850 AND 860 Contact Stephen Nightengale, EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Procurement Functional Working Group Computer Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Technology Bldg, Room B217, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, (301) 975-3616. The Procurement Functional Working Group is developing implementation conventions to be used by the Federal Government in conducting Electronic Data Interchange under ASC X12 Verison 3.5 (3050). Federal Implementation Conventions for ASC X12 transactions 850 (Purchase Order) and 860 (Purchase Order Change) are available for public comment. These documents are available in electronic format from the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/dartg/edi/fededi/html and from anonymous FTP at snad.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/fededi/. The FTP login is anonymous and your E-Mail address is entered as the password. Electronic comments are preferred and should be addressed to PFWG@snad.ncsl.nist.gov. The public comment period closes 6 Mar 95.

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