[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 222 (Wednesday, November 18, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64062-64063]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-30796]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
[Docket No. 980107004-8216-02]
Approval of Withdrawal of Sixteen Federal Information Processing
Standards (FIPS) Publications
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to announce that the Secretary
of Commerce has approved the withdrawal of sixteen Federal Information
Processing Standards (FIPS) Publications.
Sixteen FIPS are being withdrawn because they are obsolete, or have
not been updated to adopt current voluntary industry standards. Federal
agencies and departments are directed by the National Technology
Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104-113, to use technical
standards that are developed in voluntary consensus standards bodies.
Consequently, there no longer is a need for FIPS that duplicate
voluntary industry standards.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This withdrawal is effective November 18, 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ms. Shirley M. Radack, telephone (301) 975-2833, National Institute of
Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 24, 1998, notice was published
in the Federal Register (63 FR 9199) proposing withdrawal of nineteen
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publications, because
the technical specifications that they adopt are obsolete and are no
longer supported by industry.
Withdrawal means that the FIPS will no longer be part of a
subscription series that is provided by the National Technical
Information Service, and that NIST will no longer be able to support
the standards by answering implementation questions or updating the
FIPS when the voluntary industry standards are revised. Current
voluntary industry standards should be used by agencies in their
procurement actions when appropriate, in accordance with OMB Circular
A-119, Federal Participation and Use of Voluntary Standards.
This notice provides only the FIPS publication number, title, and
the technical specifications number for each of the sixteen FIPS
Publications being withdrawn:
FIPS 41, Computer Security Guidelines for Implementing the
Privacy Act of 1974
FIPS 69-1, FORTRAN (ANSI X3.9-1978/R1989)
FIPS 100-1, Interface Between Data Terminal Equipment (DTE)
and Data Circuit-Terminating (DCE) for Operation with Packet-Switched
Data Networks (PSDN), or Between Two DTEs, by Dedicated Circuit (ANSI
X3.100-1989)
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 128-2, Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) (ANSI/ISO 8632.1-
4:1992 [1994]; 8632:1992/Amd.1:1994 & Amd. 2:1995; MIL-D-28003A+Amd.1;
and ATA Spec. 2100, Version 2.1)
FIPS 138, Electrical Characteristics of Balanced Voltage
Digital Interface Circuits
FIPS 142, Electrical Characteristics of Unbalanced Voltage
Digital Interface Circuits
FIPS 143, General Purpose 37-Position and 9-Position Interface
Between Data Terminal Equipment and Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
(EIA-RS-449)
FIPS 146-2, Profiles for Open Systems Internetworking
Technologies (POSIT)
FIPS 148, Procedures for Document Facsimile Transmission
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; 9593.2-1990; 9593.4:1991; and 9593.1/AM1, 3/AM1, 4/
AM1:1991)
FIPS 154, High Speed 25-Position Interface for Data Terminal
Equipment and Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (EIA-530-1987)
FIPS 177-1, Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES)
(ANSI/US PRO-100-1993, Version 5.2, LEP Application Protocol, IP-110-
1994, and Engr. Dwg. (Class II) Subset (MIL-D-28000A), Dec. 1992
Version)
FIPS 178, Video Teleconferencing Services at 56 to 1,920 kb/s
(ITU-T Recommendations H.221-1993, H.230-1993, H.242-1993, H.261-1993,
and H.320-1993)
FIPS 179-1, Government Network Management Profile (GNMP)
The written comments submitted by interested parties and other
materials
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available to the Department relevant to these publications were
reviewed by NIST. On the basis of this review, NIST recommended that
the Secretary approve the withdrawal of the sixteen FIPS Publications,
and prepared a detailed justification document for the Secretary's
review in support of that recommendation.
Because of comments received, NIST will delay the withdrawal of
three FIPS that had been proposed for withdrawal in the February 24,
1998, notice. FIPS 183, Integration Definition for Function Modeling
(IDEFO), and FIPS 184, Integration Definition for Information Modeling
(IDEF1X), will be retained until voluntary industry standards are
available. FIPS 160, C (ANSI/ISO 9899:1992), will be retained until
NIST's validation program for the C programming language ends later
this year, and then the FIPS will be withdrawn at that time. NIST will
publish a Federal Register notice announcing the withdrawal of FIPS 160
before December 31, 1998.
The detailed justification document which was presented to the
Secretary is part of the public record and is available for inspection
and copying in the Department's Central Reference and Records
Inspection Facility, Room 6020, Herbert C. Hoover Building, 14th Street
between Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues, NW, Washington, DC
20230.
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: November 12, 1998.
Robert E. Hebner,
Acting Deputy Director.
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