Federal Register
July 29, 1997
Vol. 62 No. 145
Pages 40502-40503

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to announce that the Secretary of Commerce has approved the withdrawal of thirty-three Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publications.

On September 3, 1996, notice was published in the Federal Register (61 FR 46444-46445) proposing withdrawal of thirty-two Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publications. Thirty-one of the thirty-two FIPS proposed for withdrawal are being withdrawn by this notice.

In addition, FIPS 147, Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus for Document Transmission, and 174, Federal Building Telecommunications Wiring Standard, are withdrawn by this notice. These standards were proposed for revision in the Federal Register (61 FR 10986-10992 dated March 18, 1996, and 61 FR 15783-15785 dated April 9, 1996), but are being withdrawn instead.

These thirty-three FIPS are being withdrawn because they are obsolete, or have not been updated to adopt current voluntary industry standards.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, Public Law 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.

The written comments submitted by interested parties and other material 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 thirty-three FIPS Publications, and prepared a detailed justification document for the Secretary's review in support of that recommendation.

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.

This notice provides only the FIPS publication number, title, and the technical specifications number for each of the thirty-three FIPS Publications being withdrawn:

• FIPS 1-2, Code for Information Interchange, Its Representations, Subsets, and Extension (ANSI X3.4-1986/R1992, X3.32-1990, X3.41-1990)
• FIPS 11-3, Guideline: American National Dictionary for Information Systems (ANSI X3.172-1990 & X3.172A-1992)
• FIPS 16-1, Bit Sequencing of Code for Information Interchange in Serial-By-Bit Data Transmission (ANSI X3.15-1976/R1983&R1990)
• FIPS 17-1, Character Structure and Character Parity Sense for Serial-By-Bit Data Communication in the Code for Information Interchange (ANSI X3.16-1976/R1983&R1990)
• FIPS 19-2, Catalog of Widely Used Code Sets
• FIPS 22-1, Synchronous Signaling Rates Between Data Terminal and Data Communication Equipment (ANSI X3.1-1976)
• FIPS 34, Guide for the Use of International System of Units (SI) in Federal Information Processing Standards Publications
• FIPS 49, Guideline on Computer Performance Management: An Introduction
• FIPS 57, Guidelines for the Measurement of Interactive Computer Service Response Time and Turnaround Time
• FIPS 58-1, Representations of Local Time of the Day for Information Interchange (ANSI X3.43-1986)
• FIPS 59, Representations of Universal Time, Local Time Differentials, and United States Time Zone References for Information Interchange (ANSI X3.51-1975)
• FIPS 68-2, BASIC (ANSI X3.113-1987)
• FIPS 70-1, Representation of Geographic Point Locations for Information Interchange (ANSI X3.61-1986)
• FIPS 75, Guideline on Constructing Benchmarks for ADP System Acquisitions
• FIPS 76, Guideline for Planning and Using a Data Dictionary System
• FIPS 77, Guideline for Planning and Management of Database Applications
• FIPS 86, Additional Controls for Use with American National Standard Code for Information Interchange (ANSI X3.64-1979/R1990)
• FIPS 88, Guideline on Integrity Assurance and Control in Database Administration
• FIPS 94, Guideline on Electrical Power for ADP Installations
• FIPS 96, Guideline for Developing and Implementing a Charging System for Data Processing Services
• FIPS 99, Guideline: A Framework for the Evaluation and Comparison of Software Development Tools
• FIPS 104-1, ANS Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries, Dependencies, and Areas of Special Sovereignty for Information Interchange
• FIPS 109, Pascal (ANSI/IEEE 770X3.97-1983/R1990)
• FIPS 110, Guideline for Choosing a Data Management Approach
• FIPS 123, Specification for a Data Descriptive File for Information Interchange (DDF) (ANSI/ISO 8211-1985/R1992)
• FIPS 124, Guideline on Functional Specifications for Database Management Systems
• FIPS 126, Database Language NDL (ANSI X3.133-1986)
• FIPS 147, Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus for Document Transmission
• FIPS 152, Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) (ISO 8879-1986)
• FIPS 156, Information Resource Dictionary System (IRDS) (ANSI X3.138-1988&X3.138A-1991)
• FIPS 157, Guideline for Quality Control of Image Scanners (ANSI/AIIM MS44-1988)
• FIPS 158-1, The User Interface Component of the Applications Portability Profile (MIT X Version 11, Release 5)
• FIPS 174, Federal Building Telecommunications Wiring Standard (ANSI/EIA/TIA-568-1991)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Shirley Radack, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, telephone (301) 975-2833.

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 July 22, 1997

Elaine Bunten-Mines, Director, Program Office