Our near-term plan is to generate four "working" papers.  These papers
will eventually be combined into a "white" paper or recommendation
containing implementable specifications for the Healthcare CPP
electronic partner profile and Registry.  The four working papers cover:

(1) Identifiers
(2) Addresses and delivery channels
(3) Elements of the Healthcare Collaboration-Protocol Profile (CPP)
(4) "Discovery" of Healthcare CPPs (i.e., the Registry)

A little more background on the project and working papers is available
at http://www.novannet.com/wedi/.

Lynne Gilbertson's message reminds us that a "primer" (or Overview or
Background) document is really necessary - something that says in plain
English (or bloated, turgid English if I were to write it) just why
we're going to all this trouble to build an electronic partner profile -
and a Registry to point to it!  This document would include background
on the existing Healthcare EDI environment (where we are), the ideal
(where we want to go), Identifiers as they relate to routing of
transactions, a high-level description of an Electronic Partner Profile,
a high-level description of the Healthcare Registry, along with some
examples of how all this would look in practice.

I propose that the first Working paper, "Identifiers," simply be changed
to an "Overview" document.  Currently, Ron Bowron and I are assigned to
the Identifiers document;  if there's no objection to turning the
working paper into a usable overview of the project, would there be
anyone else who would like to volunteer to assist us in writing it?  I
anticipate that a large part of the document will be an organized and
edited cut-and-paste of postings to the ID & Routing mailing list over
the last 4 months.

William J. Kammerer
Novannet, LLC.
Columbus, US-OH 43221-3859
+1 (614) 487-0320

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynne Gilbertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 06 June, 2002 04:35 PM
Subject: RE: registry and repository


NCPDP has created a task group to assist in the routing registry
endeavor. As the task group is made up of business and technical folks
in the pharmacy industry, is there a primer document or something they
can read to come up to speed with the work being done? thank you


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