70-FEDERAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES FOR ASC X12 3050 TRANSACTION; 861 RECEIVING ADVICE/ACCEPTANCE CERTIFICATE, ET. AL.; The Joint Federal/DoD Logistics Functional Working group is developing standard implementation conventions to be used by the Federal Government in transmitting electronic data using ANSI X12 Version 3560. The Federal Implementation Convention for ASC X12 transaction sets 856 Ship Notice Manifest and 861 Receiving Advice/Acceptance Certificate are available for public comment. This document is available in electronic format from the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://www.antd.nist.gov/fededi/cbd.html and from anonymous FTP at snad.ncsl.gov/pub/fededi/LFWG. 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 logfwg@edi.oti.disa.mil and jp.favreau@nist.gov. The public comment period closes September 19, 1997. Contact Jean-Philippe Favreau EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Joint Federal/DoD Logistics 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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