Hi Rachel,
Just curious, as you noted; "If ASC X12 ceases to exist, then DISA will have lost its major (only??) customer. DISA would then have to find other paying customers or also go out of business." A few years back there was an agreement / initiative to move X12 toward the EDIFACT standard. As noted it is UN/EDIFACT, USA is the primary UN funding country and of course we don't use the UN EDI standard. The "merge" of X12 & EDIFACT (apologies if that is the wrong term) seemed so logical. Consider USA following a global standard that we substantially funded the development of, intelligent use of our tax dollars, amazing thought. Unfortunately that initiative seems to have died. - Is is correct that way back UN/EDIFACT was proposed & approved and then USA developed X12 as our own standard or was it the other way round X12 came first & EDIFACT followed? - Any idea what happened with the initiative? Did the death of the "merge" initiative have anything to do the fact that DISA would be out of business as you noted above or was it more because companies like Sterling are very strong with X12 mappings and not as competent as the European vendors with EDIFACT and would have lost some competitive advantage in the US market? There is also the whole X12 consulting industry which would have to retool to learn the new merged standard. Thanks & Regards, James Hatcher At 10:47 AM 1/19/2005 -0600, Rachel Foerster wrote: >James, just one more comment to your points about DISA and its relationship >to ANSI. DISA, as you correctly point out, is the secretariat of the ASC X12 >Committee. As such, its relationship is with X12 -- not ANSI. DISA is a >501(3)(c) not for profit organization, originally established to serve as >the secretariat for ASC X12 when TDCC no longer could satisfy X12's needs. > >If ASC X12 ceases to exist, then DISA will have lost its major (only??) >customer. DISA would then have to find other paying customers or also go out >of business. > >Rachel > > > > >Rachel Foerster & Associates, Ltd. > >39432 North Avenue > >Beach Park, IL 60099 > >Voice: 847-872-8070 > >Fax: 847-589-8081 > . 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/
