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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1092)	2/22/1998 11:23:00 AM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Respond to of 9818

I agree. Compliant and ready are two different concepts. Compliant = willing to comply; accommodating. Ready = prepared; able to operate or perform.

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1092)	2/22/1998 3:45:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 9818

TECHNICAL / EDI - 'This program tests the ability of businesses transacting EDI to send and receive EDI data containing the "00" date' 'NRF Survival 2000 EDI Project Retail Industry Guidelines for Year 2000 EDI Translator Testing November 3, 1997 Copyright 1997 by the National Retail Federation Executive Summary <snip> The ability to manage year 2000 data presents many challenges to businesses' internal systems and processes. An additional challenge is addressing issues associated with exchanging electronic information with external trading partners. To address this challenge, a committee consisting of retailers, suppliers, Value Added Networks (VANs), and the National Retail Federation (NRF) met to define a program to determine if participants' translators can accurately process electronic documents containing date fields reflecting dates on and after 1/1/2000. The tests described within this paper are not intended as "catch all" tests. They simply test the ability of all trading partners to accept through their translators the "00" designation for the year 2000. ' <snip> ________________________________________ Interesting white paper on EDI testing! John nrf.com