In the current openEHR reference model, there are 3 top-level packages, 
known as:
- rm: the information model
- am: the archeype model
- sm: the service model

The first of these really should be "im", not "rm", and is only "rm" for 
historical reasons. As we convert from BitKeeper to Subversion, and also 
as we are approaching release 1.0, it occurs to me that it would be nice 
to make the change of "rm" to "im", which would make documentation 
clearer, and reduce the confusion around the phrase "reference model".

However, there is already a fair bit of software, schemas and so on 
around the place. It might be too late to make such a change. Note that 
it need not be done for software still to be correct, since we are only 
talking about a package name - it does not change any class names, nor 
any tag names in XML data that I can think of.

Can I have reactions on how this change would be received. It were ever 
to be made, now would obviously be the time.

- thomas beale

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