My error, ANSI accredited the developer of X.12 to create the standard.
ANSI accredits standards developers to create standards. Accreditation is defined as the procedure by which an authoritative body gives formal recognition that a body or person is competent to carry out specific tasks. (As defined in ISO/IEC Guide 2:1996) Presently, there are more than 280 organizations accredited by ANSI to develop standards, including organizations like ASTM International, Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., NFPA International, ASME International, CSA America, Inc. and NSF International. Accreditation ensures adherence to ANSI's cardinal principles. ANSI-Accredited Standards Developers develop American National Standards in many different areas. ANSI supplies standards developers with effective procedures and management services to ensure efficient use of their time and financial resources, and promotes the timely development of standards. ANSI, in cooperation with these standards developers identifies the need for a standard, sets priorities for its completion, then assures that all impacted stakeholders have an opportunity to participate. Audits oversee the integrity of the ANSI process, regularly ensuring adherence to the ANSI procedures and safeguarding the value of the ANS designation. At 03:27 PM 1/13/2005 -0600, Michael Mattias wrote: > > In other words, DISA (on behalf of X12) is (probably) the only "legal" > > source for machine readable X12 standards to be used in a commercial > > product. X12 has insisted on having the raw table data copyrighted - > > and charging an arm and a leg for it. > >(I am not a lawyer). (And my late sainted mother was still quite proud of me.) > >AFAIK, the data format 'of itself' is public domain; meaning all DISA may >copyright is that data "as fixed in tangible media." >(fixing in tangible media is a requirement for copyright, anyway). > >I do not know where a copyright lawyer would come down on this, but it >seems to me that if somehow manage to fix that data in >tangible media in some format different than that offered by DISA, I'd be >perfectly legit to resell that form of the data. >(Copyrighting that new format myself, thank you). > >The one real "kicker" here though would be a license violation: without >ever having seen it, I'd bet dollars to donuts the license >provided by DISA for the use of *any* of their copyright materials >prohibits the use of the material for the production of anything >for resale... meaning of course, you'd have to be able to prove that you >did not use any DISA-copyright materials when you >painstakingly hand-edited or or screen-scraped or PDF-parsed the >information in the first place. > >All in all, an interesting question: How can a data format be a public >standard, but not be available except from a single supplier, >who licenses it only for 'no-resale' use, resulting in the same net effect >as though that 'public' data were in fact owned >intellectual property? > >Then again, I may just totally misunderstand the 'publicness' of the ANSI >ASC X12 standards. > >Michael Mattias >Tal Systems, Inc. >Racine WI >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > >. >Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: ><SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> >Access the list online >at: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L > > > > >---------- >Yahoo! Groups Links > * To visit your group on the web, go to: > * > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ > * > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > * > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the > <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
