> Interesting approach. Would you share an example? Not an entire IG, but 
> enough to show what you mean. Do you require certain qualifiers or allow 
> the TP to dictate? Do you just send an example transaction and then 
> explain the business context in several paragraphs? I've been both the 
> caller and the callee on those phone calls you mention, so if you have a 
> way to avoid them, please give us a hint.


Whoa there, we may be getting two things mixed up here....

First, to create an IG, it's silly to think you can do it without some kind 
of standards reference.  Yes, tools like EDISIM *include* some easy-to-use 
standards data you can suck in with one or two magic keystrokes. But if you 
otherwise have a source of standards info, why not create your IGs with a 
word-processing tool with which you are experienced?  Seems silly to me to 
learn a new word processing tool when what you are doing reduces to.... 
processing words.

Second, on your question above, " Do you require certain qualifiers  or 
allow the TP.....?"

If you are creating an IG to be used by all your (customers|vendors), you 
decide these things BEFORE you process that first word.

An EDI IG is just one more manifestation of "communications skills."

If the recipient understands that IG both in business and technical 
contexts, you done good; If he doesn't you didn't.

Michael C. Mattias
Tal Systems Inc.
Racine WI
[email protected]



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