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NIST Request for Comments

CPSR News Volume 13, Number 2: Summer 1995

ACTION: Request for comments.

SUMMARY: NIST is considering the development of a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) for the data elements which, when taken together, will describe information objects of many different kinds, both electronic and non-electronic. The standard would apply to a wide range of information- creating software products. It would apply also to software products for document management and object repository. Federal agencies would use the standard in specifying many software products used to create documents or information objects (for example, electronic mail systems), and also when specifying products for the storage and management of documents and objects This notice uses the word record as a broadly encompassing term that includes documents and objects, regardless of media or application.

The framework for this proposed FIPS was developed by a working group of the interagency Integrated Services Panel, under the Federal Information Resources Management Policy Council. NIST solicits comments on the scope, purpose, background, and rationale for the proposed standard, and on certain technical issues. After analyzing the comments, NIST may propose a FIPS for review and comment.

DATES: Comments on this effort must be received within 90 days.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to:

Director
Computer Systems Laboratory
ATTN: Data Standard for Records Description
Technology Building, Room B154
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899

Written comments received in response to this notice will be made part of the public record and will be made available for inspection and copying in the

Central Reference and Inspection Facility, Room 6020
Herbert C. Hoover Building
14th Street between Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues, N.W.
Washington, DC 20230

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Mr. Bruce K. Rosen
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Technology Building, Room A-266
Gaithersburg, MD

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