On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 23:15, Adrian Midgley wrote: > I think the thing I would most like to change about HL7 is the policy on > release of its documentation, where a modest sum is required of anyone who > wants a copy of it, and therefore instead of a standard which the owners > would like everyone to adopt, and show it, it beocmes a standard the details > of which are locked up, whose administration must support copyright > restriction, accounting and distribution of the instructions, and where > serendipity is hampered.
If you go to http://www.hl7.org/, and click on 'HL7 Standards" under 'resources", some, but not all or the extant and draft standards are freely downloadable. Like you, I don't understand why are all aren't freely available. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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