Encontrei este parágrafo em uma carta de retirada para FIPS , que pode ser o motivo pelo qual ele foi retirado:
trecho da carta de retirada
It is no longer necessary for the government to mandate standards that duplicate industry standards. Federal government departments and agencies are directed by the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (P.L. 104-113), to use technical industry standards that are developed in voluntary consensus standards bodies.
Existe também esta carta / email:
From: "richard l. hogan"
<Richard=L.=Hogan%dpi%[email protected]> Date: Tue, 29 Oct
96 9:20:26 CST Subject: Withdrawal of FIPS
O qual discute que o NIST e o Dept. of Commerce estavam descartando designações nacionais para coisas como ANSI 3.64 quando eles já tinham uma designação internacional (ISO).
excerto da carta / e-mail
One of the pieces of legislation that, according to NIST and the Department of Commerce, enabled the FIPS program was rescinded this year. The law - sometimes referred to as the Brooks Act - contained specific requirements for establishing uniform standards for information processing in the Federal government and for making those standards mandatory in Federal procurement actions. OMB Circular A-119 further clarified that mandatory Federal standards took precedence over voluntary national and international standards. Now, as a result of treaty negotiations making the Untied States part of the World Trade Organization, the Books Act has been replaced with new legislation that requires Federal agencies to consider voluntary international and national standards FIRST in procurement actions and to cite Federal standards only when no appropriate international or national standards exist.
In many cases FIPS have international (ISO) or national (ANSI) standard equivalents. For example, FIPS 123 (Data Descriptive Format for Information Interchange) is also ISO-8211. The change in legislation requires Federal procurements to now cite ISO-8211. Previously, we were required to cite FIPS- 123. As a result of this change, NIST has recognized an opportunity to make government "work better and cost less" by withdrawing any FIPS that already has an equivalent ANSI or ISO specification or any FIPS that is not mandatory; i.e., is just a guideline. What remains on the "active" FIPS list are mandatory Federal standards which currently have no ANSI or ISO equivalent; for example, the Spatial Data Transfer Standard (FIPS 173-1) and the Government Information Locator Service (FIPS 192).
NIST is not withdrawing important standards like Pascal, FIPS 109; SGML, FIPS 152; or Hydrologic Unit Codes, FIPS 103. The proper way to look at this action is that NIST is withdrawing the Federal designation of these standards in favor or their national or international standards designations; ANSI X3.97-1993 for FIPS 103, ISO 8879 for FIPS 152, and ANSI X3.145-1986 for FIPS 103. From a user point of view, this action by NIST is nothing more than a way to assure the designation change required by the new legislation.
Eu interpretaria isso da seguinte forma: Como o ECMA-48 já cobria o padrão em nível internacional, não havia necessidade de criar padrões redundantes dentro do ANSI.