70 -- DOD IMPLEMENTATION CONVENTIONS FOR ASC X12 4010 TRANSACTIONS; 859 FREIGHT INVOICE 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. DOD Implementation Conventions for ASC X12 4010 859 Freight Invoice is available for public comment. Documents are 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. The public comment period closes February 20, 1999 (or 30 days from the date of publishing). Contact Karen Hsing EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Federal Finance Functional Workgroup, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building 820, Room 475 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Tel: (301) 975-3656 Posted 01/20/99 (W-SN289553).

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