70 -- FEDL. IMPLEMENTATION CONVENTIONS FOR ASC X12 4010 TRANSACTIONS -- 857 SHIPMENT & BILLING NOTICE The Finance Functional Working Group is developing standard implementation conventions to be used by the Federal Government in transmitting electronic data using ANSI X12 Version 4010. Federal Implementation Conventions for ASC X12 4010 857 Shipment and Billing Notice 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/FFWG. 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 finan-wg@edi.oti.disa.mil and frederick.boland@nist.gov. The public comment period closes September 24, 1998 (or 30 days from the date of publishing). Contact Tim Boland EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Federal Finance Functional Workgroup, Computer Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building 820, Room 458 Gaithersburg, MD 20899Tel: (301) 975-3608 Posted 08/24/98 (W-SN241058).

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