[New-ITS] Considering the XUM and what ITS worth

[Grahame Grieve]

Hi David

> <GG>
> you can get away without a terminology service in demographics, in straight
> messaging - no problems.
> </GG>
> 
> I agree
> ----
> 
> But then you said:
> <GG>
> If you bring this background to V3, you wonder why it's so complex. RIM
> level serialisation is just part of that picture.
> </GG>
> 
> I am not sure that RIM level serialization is such a radical idea. Curiously
> it is still more specific than HL7v2 naming conventions plus it has all the
> formalism of the model.

no. V3 itself (i.e. a terminology mediated structure) is a radical idea
if your background is simply administrative messaging. everything that follows
is variations on the one theme.

> You said:
> <GG>
> so, join us in Eclipse and do it... ;-)
> </GG>
> 
> Not everything is Eclipse, not everything is HL7.

yes, of course, but worth asking anyway.

Grahame