[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 54776]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-27066]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
[Docket No. 961008283-6283-01]
RIN 0693-XX27


Notice of Termination of Validation Services for Five Federal 
Information Processing Standards (FIPS)

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice; termination of validation services.

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SUMMARY: The NIST is terminating validation services for 
implementations of the following FIPS:

--FIPS 109, Pascal (ANSI/IEEE 770x3.97-1983/R1990)
--FIPS 120-1, Graphical Kernel System (GKS) (ANSI X3.124-1985/R1991, 
X3.124.1-1985/R1991, X3.124.2-1988/R1994, X3.124.3-1989 and ISO/IEC 
8651-4:1991)
--FIPS 125-1, MUMPS (ANSI/MDC X11.1-1990)
--FIPS 153-1, Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System 
(PHIGS), (ANSI/ISO 9592.1,2,3:1989, 9592.1a,2a,3a,4:1992, 9593.1:1990, 
9593.3:1990, 9593.4:1991, and 9593.1/AM1, 3/AM1,4/AM1:1991)
--FIPS 177-1, Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) (Digital 
Representation for Communication of Product Definition Data), ANIS/US 
PRO/IPO-100-1993, Version 5.2, and the specified APs: Layered 
Electrical Product (LEP) Application Protocol, IPO-110-1994; 3-D Piping 
Application Protocol; and Engineering Drawing (Class II) Subset (MIL-D-
28000A).

    These validation services are being terminated because the FIPS 
have not been updated to reference current or revised voluntary 
industry standards, products implementing the voluntary industry 
standards are widely available, or there have been few or no requests 
for validation services. As a result, it is no longer practical or 
necessary for the government to continue providing validation services 
for these FIPS.
    Agencies requiring validation of implementations for conformance to 
the above standards may specify their own testing or adopt other 
techniques for evaluating conformance to these specifications.
    In many cases the test methods and validation procedures were 
developed by NIST, and are freely available. In other cases the test 
suites for standards, such as Pascal, are provided by others. 
Information on how to obtain the test methods and validation procedures 
that were used by NIST for testing conformance to these FIPS can be 
obtained through the NIST Validated Products List internet Universal 
Resource Locator (URL) address ftp://speckle.ncsl.nist.gov/vpl/
intro.htm or contacting: Information Technology Laboratory, Software 
Diagnostic and Conformance Testing Division, Conformance Testing Group, 
Building 820, NIST North, Room 562, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, Phone: 
(301) 975-3283.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Validation services for FIPS 109, 120-1, 125-1, 153-1 
and 177-1 will be terminated on November 21, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mr. L. Arnold Johnson, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
Gaithersburg, MD 20899, telephone (301) 975-3247, e-mail 
[email protected].

AUTHORITY: Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS 
PUBS) are issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
after approval by the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to Section 5131 of 
the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996 and the 
Computer Security Act of 1987, Public Law 104-106.

    Dated: October 16, 1996.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 96-27066 Filed 10-21-96; 8:45 am]
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