Multiple Identifiers: I Didn’t Know What NIST SP 500-290 Was

People memorize arcane text strings when they use them a lot. But until now I never memorized NIST SP 500-290…even though it refers to a document I reference fairly constantly.

Because NIST SP 500-290 is another identifier for the documents in the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1 data exchange series…a series that goes back to 1986 before NIST technically existed.

National Bureau of Standards. We don’t need no stinking technology.
  • The first version to be tagged as a NIST Special Publication (SP) was ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011, also known as SP 500-290.
  • This was followed by ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 Update: 2013, a/k/a SP 500-290e2 (Edition 2).
  • Next was ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 Update: 2015, or SP 500-290e3.

What about Edition 4?

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