70-FEDL. IMPLEMENTATION CONVENTION FOR ASC X12 4010 TRANSACTION; 860 PURCHASE ORDER CHANGE REQUEST -- BUYER INITIATED The Procurement Functional Working Group is developing standard implementation conventions to be used by the Federal Government in transmitting electronic data using ANSI X12 Version 4010. A Federal Implementation Convention for ASC X12 transaction set 860 Purchase Order Change Request -- Buyer Initiated 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/cbd.html and from anonymous FTP at snad.ncsl.nist.gov, directory pub/fededi/PFWG. 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 fedprocurefwg@edi.oti.disa.mil and t.boland@nist.gov. The public comment period closes July 22, 1998 (or 30 days from the date of publishing). Contact Tim Boland, EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Federal Procurement Functional Workgroup, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST-North, Building 820, Room 517 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Tel: (301) 975-3608

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