How does NARA reconcile its position on E-mail with the thrust of the President's December 17, 1999, E-gov directive -- particularly directives 5 and 9(b)? http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/12/20/5.text.1

Reference: Archives Loses 43,000 E-Mails By George Lardner Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 6, 2000; Page A17 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/fedpage/A11371-2000Jan6.html

See also: USDA rule proposal draws abundant online comments By Florence Olsen GCN February 23, 1998 http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/February23/cov2.htm

Without endorsing any particular product, it is noteworthy that USDA/AMS established a best practice in the NOP program and the EDMS they used is now among those that have been pair-certified in compliance with the 5015.2 standard. http://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/recmgt/#register

Perhaps the following link may also be of interest: http://www.fws.gov/laws/firmstand/FIRMstand.htm#E-gov

-- Anonymous, January 06, 2000