Tim Churches wrote: > >Hear, hear! What a great summary of everything that is wrong with >standards development. Can you publish that as a short essay on your Web >site, or can I quote it with attribution elsewhere? Prototype, pilot, >refactor, pilot again, start again, prototype, test, etc. No standard >should be accepted unless its developers can admit that the first three >versions turned out to be wrong when tested in real-life situations. > I want to develop this properly, and put it in a book one day, but I might put up a one-pager on a website somewhere soon if it seems interesting to people. I should at the outset add a caveat: many if not most people at standards meetings and doing standards work are trying their best. I am not criticising them, I am criticising the framework. I am just as guilty of having to operate in ad hoc argumentation mode as everyone else, because that's all there is.
>>OpenEHR is far from perfect, but it is (trying to be) one thing: a >>process, not a thing. The process is more akin to a software engineering >>process, conducted in the open, rather than a staandards development >>process. So in response to the above, some face to face meetings are >>good, but they need to occur as design workshops, with competent >>modellers and specifiers, and there needs to be implementation testing >>of the results. >> >> > >Yup, and openEHR must be congratulated on this. My only criticism is >that it has taken too long for openEHR to release working prototypes. I >know these exist - but they need to be made public and readily useable >for exploratory purposes, even if they are incomplete. Perfectionism is >a curse. > actually, even though we could have been accused of over-perfectionism (and I personally accept some responsibility for this) our current delays are resources not perfection. But I think we are on track for a 0.9 specification release in October 2003 - the release that software builders can feel safe about getting into. - thomas - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
