70 -- FEDL. IMPLEMENTATION CONVENTIONS FOR ASC X12 TRANSACTION; 856S SHIPMENT STATUS 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 3060. Federal Implementation Conventions for ASC X12 transaction 856S Shipment Status is available for public comment. This document is available in electronic format from the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/fededi and from anonymous FTP at snad.ncsl.nist.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 February 9, 1998 (or 30 days from the date of publishing) 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, NIST-North, Room 458, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, Tel: (301) 975-3634.

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