Jan Dockx wrote: > There is such a system: DNS. Why in heavens name did we invent a new one? > DNS is great. In fact, I would suggest that DNS has more chance of including more organisations (represented by their domain names) than ISO OIDs. But...what if a hospital changes domain name, but is still the same hospital? DNS does not have identifying information other than the domain name administrator details (what whois returns); is this enough? In any case, DNS only works for organisations and sometimes pieces of organisations. But how do we want to identify a prescription for example, or a lab result? One way is with an OID; another way is domain_name+lab_result_id. I think the latter is much more realistic today, even if the former seems more theoretically satisfying (even if it completely unreadable to humans;-)
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