About the X12 Standard
The X12 standard is an electronic data exchange standard that is used in multiple business domains including finance, government, health care, insurance, transportation, and others. It is primarily used in the United States of America and it is maintained by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA).
The specifications can be obtained from the DISA website. This website contains links for industry-specific sub-standards.
License information
Standards information and related data embedded in the data table in the Licensee Software, Outsourcing Services and Combined Software Solutions are protected by copyright and other the intellectual property of X12 Incorporated, a non-profit organization chartered by the American National Standards Institute to develop and maintain EDI standards and XML schemas. In order to provide and fund these activities in serving American industry, X12 is willing to grant to all end users of the Licensee Software, Outsourcing Services or Combined Software Solutions a license at a royalty of $180 per year. IBM strongly recommends that you contact X12 at x12.org/products/licensing-program/partners/ibm to obtain a license to use and access X12 metadata, represented in, for example, more than 30 versions of more than 300 transaction sets and implementation guides, through X12’s online viewer, Glass.