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The phrase, "lack of public funding" is misleading. It implies that something is missing. As a lifelong supporter of the concept of Free Enterprise, I do not find that there is any "lack" of public funding for X12. More accurately, we are blessed not to have the government involved in the financial support of the standards. If they were to support the development and maintenance of X12 financially, the overall cost would undoubtedly skyrocket, just as everything else they touch does. This would be paid for, initially, from the public treasury, to which the rich (middle class) and super rich (small businesses and successful people like we hope to become one day) are forced to contribute. Later, funding would be threatened, and support for the standards would eventually vanish, or else there would be a huge bureaucracy surrounding it, and nobody could get any work done. DISA does a good job of managing with a limited staff. That allows the industries to control the standards, not the other way around, and at a reasonable cost. TANS TAAFL From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Klaus-Dieter Naujok Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 3:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EDI-L] EDIFACT vs. X12, public/free vs. nonpublic/expensive On Oct 12, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Art Douglas wrote: > EDIFACT is paid for through taxation. Art/Lowell, It is true that UN member contributions pay for the limited support provided by the UNECE secretariat in the UN/EDIFACT development. However, the majority of resources do come from the participating volunteers in the process, similar to the way X12 participants contribute. Because of the lack of public funding for the support provided to by DISA to X12, there is a fee associated with the publications to recover cost not covered by membership dues. On Oct 12, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Lowell Porter wrote: > EDIFACT isn't free. Lowell, Since the original comment was about the "free" publication of UN/EDIFACT, your response it false, All of UN/EDIFACT's documents are free. Klaus [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> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
