On 02/18/2014 01:36 PM, Ian McNicoll wrote: > As I understand it, the idea of the ENTRY sub-classes was to remove > some of this variability in the top-level patterns and strike some > sort of balance between your two contradictory wishes. I don't think so.
It is the wish, I know, of all working on Health-ICT-projects/standards that their standard will serve the whole world, or at least an important part of it. Because if that happens, all the interoperability problems are gone. This strong wish motivates many decisions, which, after some time, need to be adjusted. For example, in the OpenEHR, the idea was that CKM would serve the world with archetypes, and there would be no need of a strong archetypeId-system, because, all archetypes ever to be taken seriously were in CKM. Now it is recognized that this is not the case, and the proposition regarding archetypeIds changed. Now, I can read between your lines that variability should not occur. It should be avoided. This reflects the same old wish for one standard for all. But not to focus on you, not to focus on you or OpenEHR, just because this is close on this list. It happens in all other standard-communities. It happens everywhere where they define standards. Maybe you know the joke, I told it a few times: Andrea: Sigh, there are 51 HL7 standards, this is bad. I am going to solve that, I will create a new HL7 standard which will make all others obsolete. Few months later.... Carlos: Sigh, there are 52 HL7 standards, this is bad. I am going to solve that, I will create a new HL7 standard which will make all others obsolete. Few months later.... Francis: Sigh, there are 53 HL7 standards, this is bad. I am going to solve that, I will create a new HL7 standard which will make all others obsolete. A world that speaks one language and sings Song of Joy before sleeping will not happen. There will be variability, there will be a free market, there will be free software development, there will be good and bad frameworks. This will always be. The best we can do is provide means on which good things can come forward and the world has a chance here and there to do better. By the way, do they in the UK still use British Standard Whitworth? Have a nice day Bert
