At 09:22 AM 8/20/2003 -0400, HOPTIMIS at aol.com wrote: >To give to HL7 the name of an "exclusive club" is very strange; could you >give some explanations?
I don't know that it merits the name of an "exclusive club", but the "open" standards that the HL7 produces are only available to paying members, which makes them a little less than open, in my opinion. This is a practice followed by other SDO's, but not by all open standards bodies. David W. Forslund dwf at lanl.gov Computer and Computational Sciences http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~dwf Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 505-663-5218 FAX: 505-663-5225 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20030820/b7be57f2/attachment.html>
