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.

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Tim C

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