70-FEDL. IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES REVISION TO PART 10 "FEDERAL CONVENTIONS FOR USING ASC X12 TRANSACTION SETS" The proposed revision to Part 10 has been prepared by the Joint Federal/DOD Communications, Control and Security Functional Working Group to address the enveloping and control structures, including addressing and acknowledgement models, and to provide the structures to support encryption and digital signatures at both the functional group and transaction set level when requirements for these types of security features are identified by the functional user communities. This Part 10 of the Federal Implementation Guidelines is meant to be an overarching architecture of the control structure which the government is implementing in the Electronic Commerce Infrastructure (ECI). However, not all the parts of the architecture will be implemented immediately. The specifics of which parts are actually implemented will be defined in agreements between the ECI and other components in the trading network and architecture, such as Value Added Networks (VANs) and government users of the ECI. This document is available in electronic format from the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://www.antd.nist.gov/fededi and from anonymous FTP at snad.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/fededi/CCSWFG. The FTP login is anonymous and your E-Mail address should be entered as the password. Electronic comments are preferred and should be addressed to ccsfwg@itsi.disa.mil and jp.favreau@nist.gov. The public comment period closes April 17, 1997 (or 30 days from the date of publishing) Contact Jean-Philippe Favreau EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Joint Federal/DoD Communications, Control and Security Functional Working Group Computer Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Technology Bldg, Room B217, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, Tel: (301) 975-3634

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