Thanks to Lisa Carnahan for tracking the list, and especially for writing in! There's certainly no need for me to speak up, because Lisa hasn't mis-characterized anything we've talked about! But as you know, I'm not one to resist writing in. Indeed, we're thrilled to have NIST take an interest in our modest effort to design a Healthcare CPP Electronic Partner Profile Registry, and I join Rachel in enthusiastically welcoming NIST as an active partner in the WEDI/SNIP ID & Routing Group.
I want to add that NIST - the National Institute of Standards and Technology (part of the U.S. Commerce Department) - will find that Healthcare administration has perhaps more interesting needs than other verticals, simply because we have so many possible identifiers which would be used to key into the registry. This should make a prototype of the Healthcare CPP Registry a more valuable testbed for evaluating capabilities in the real world. A number of Registry vendors have graciously offered their products and services in assisting us in developing a prototype. But I think having NIST help us in conducting a field trial adds a panache of integrity and objectivity to our evaluation. And it goes without saying that if we can pull off a successful prototype together, having the NIST imprimatur will go a long ways toward influencing WEDI/SNIP and AFEHCT - to say nothing of CMS - to formally adopt our recommendations. William J. Kammerer Novannet, LLC. Columbus, US-OH 43221-3859 +1 (614) 487-0320 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 05 June, 2002 06:52 AM Subject: RE: registry and repository Rachel and All, I've been tracking this list for some time and have had discussions with William Kammerer to do just this; that is, field a trial ebXML registry to hold appropriate CPPs. (William: please speak up if I mis-characterized our discussions.) To introduce myself, I'm on the OASIS/ebXML Registry Technical Committee. Given that the specs are relatively new, I have an interest in determining if the OASIS/ebXML Registry specs are really usuable by different industry segments. NIST would like to field a test registry for WEDI/SNIP CPPs. --lisa carnahan NIST (301)975-3362 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
