Jonathan Allen has decided to branch out from his specialty of ISA
record lengths and address the issue of X12 compliance.
Jonathan says "...both yourself and other members of Foresight
Corporation have previously gone on record to your customers, including
the US DoD as saying that: 'Compliance is not an issue that we are
concerned about.'" This is quite unbelievable, as I would never end a
sentence with a preposition. Besides, we at FORESIGHT have always been
concerned with compliance - we're the ones who invented the EDSIM
Analyzer, after all! For more information, please see
http://www.foresightcorp.com/pages/products/edisim/esb.html.
He goes on further to say I "voted to approve" the Technical Report on
"Compliance in X12," which supposedly defines what is and is not a
compliant implementation guide. I don't believe I would have "voted to
approve" this thing because of all my many technical objections to it.
For example, the Report says "Not Advised" must be used to mark a
segment or element when it is allowed, though not recommended, for
inclusion - making the very common notation of "Not Recommended" out of
"compliance."
I also testified before the X12 Technical Assessment Group on the
Report's insistence that DISA's sequence numbers be inviolate doesn't
make any sense since sequence numbers are not part of the X12 standard -
they are a mere typographical convenience provided by DISA as the
publisher of the X12 standards. Of course, the EDISIM Standards Editor
replicates the DISA sequence numbers, and we certainly encourage folks
to leave the numbers alone. Though not denying the veracity of my
testimony, I was rebuffed by the chair for being too nit-picky - a
strange observation indeed considering I was seated right next to
Jonathan Allen. How do you see the Moon when the Sun is out?
William J. Kammerer
FORESIGHT Corp.
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Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305
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