ANSI X12 and EDIFACT Finally Agree

After years of bickering, representatives of the two major EDI standards developers recently announced agreement on a standard for electronic data interchange (EDI) with personal digital assistants (PDAs).

"The protocols will, for the first time, be entirely transparent," said Sedgwick Ross, an unidentified spokesman for the PDA Task Force. "The key to this is using invisible ink on mylar to print the documents."

The new standard details protocols so complex and abstruse that "most value added networks (VANs) won't be able to understand them," Ross continued. It is anticipated that attempts to comply with the standard will keep PDA developers busy for "a long, long time and reduce the proliferation of these annoying little devices."

Another significant feature of these protocols is that they also make it nearly impossible for PDAs to communicate with anything or anyone else, greatly reducing the possibility that some smug little twit will send you an EDI message from his beach lounge chair in Bermuda while you're toiling away in your grotty little office in Skowhegen.

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