Talk:Federal Information Processing Standards

message: If NIST is developing all the FIPS standards, then I think it should be specified. If not, then it should be mentioned who are the notable sources that develop the FIPS standards. I can only imagine that, the government doesn't develop the standards itself, as it is stated now: "FIPS are publicly announced standards developed by the United States Federal government", but in fact it asks some agencies to do that. Ark25 (talk) 23:01, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NIST develops the FIPS standards? 

message: THIS ARTICLE SAYS ALMOST NOTHING.  ONE WHO READS LEARNS NOTHING MORE THAN "FIPS ARE GOVT STANDARDS".  I DO NOT KNOW WHO YOU PEOPLE ARE WHO WROTE THIS BUT SOMEHOW I BET YOU WORK FOR THE US GOVT...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.77.218.88 (talk) 17:10, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Almost nothing

message: I am a reader without any knowledge of FIPS, my reason to read the article was that my WiFi-adapter (in Windows 7) allowed to "Enable FIPS compliance for this network". The enabling of this feature caused the wireless connection to be dropped. I was naturally curious about what FIPS was all about, but like some others I am hard pressed to understand what the objective of FIPS really is. Especially when it comes to WiFi. I have decided that FIPS could be used to broadcast some geographical codes on WiFi, but I must admit it seems pretty unlikely. If someone could address 1) The overall objective of FIPS and 2) WiFi and FIPS, then it would be a great improvement of the article for my part.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.112.159.59 (talk) 15:13, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: FIPS and WiFi

message: We need a list of expired FIPS code.  Even the List Of FIPS Codes wiki page does not list many of the expired codes. People need these codes for processing old data. 174.79.189.49 (talk) 14:29, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: List of expired FIPS codes

message: Please do not remove content without checking the references.  If you want stronger references - add them, do not just delete our work based entirely on your own opinions/biases.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.151.160.158 (talk) 10:05, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest to try to assume good faith and not immediately suggest that people are working based just on opinions and biases. I have restructured the article somewhat. The primary issue that I noticed is that the article seemed to say that the purpose of the entire FIPS program is primarily to put in force the standards on one specific topic (i.e., key escrow). I believe that is an incorrect assertion that is not supported by the sources. —BarrelProof (talk) 14:53, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purpose 

message: I know a lot of people have chimed in here about the need for Fips and "what it is". I have read through it and I basically understand it, but I also read that as of 2008, FIPS is being discontinued in favor of ISO 3166. Just another number, I know. However, the key point that I am approaching is that when you check the references to the FIPS codes for cities,  (Abbeville, South Carolina) it takes you to American FactFinder , and evene when you search through the census data for the locality, nowhere does it state anything about FIPS codes. Maybe it is just me, or maybe we need a better source to point to, but at this point, it seems to me that FIPS is no longer neccesary in US city/town articles. Note !!!! I am not planning on deleting anything, just improving articles to include relevant information and in particular references that point to the proper source.  Thanks speednat (talk) 21:32, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Fips still relevant?