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FYI ACORD is the insurance industry standards group (used to work for them) ACCORD is the car ;-) ..dan > There'd been some discussion about ACCORD during this process, and a lot > of > the ACCORD model actually informs the NIEM model that's being rolled out. > I > believe the decision to go to NIEM came in part because DHS is a pretty > major player in this as is HHS, and both had NIEM models in other domains, > so there was a question ultimately as to whether it made more sense to > adopt an industry standard or establish a federal one. This would end up > being a full NIEM domain in that respect, and given that it looks like the > Federal government is now in the health insurance business in a big way, I > think the decision was made to effectively own the standard. > > > Kurt Cagle > Invited Expert, XForms Working Group, W3C > Managing Editor, XMLToday.org > kurt.cagle@gmail.com > 443-837-8725 > > > > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Fraser Goffin <goffinf@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Kiurt, >> >> I can empathyse, but what's up with ACCORD or Origo or Polaris. Aren't >> these insurance industry standards that could provide you with a head >> start both on semantics as well as syntax, and tolling and run-times ? >> >> And if you need some more generalised information items, UBL, et al >> >> Fraser >> >> On 29/08/2012, Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Roger, >> > >> > First - I wanted to say again how much a pleasure it was to finally >> meet >> > you at Balisage. I only regret that I was not able to stay for the >> full >> > conference. >> > >> > There is an old cantrip to the effect that Perfection is the Enemy of >> the >> > Good. It is used to justify a great number of sins in programming as >> > elsewhere, and I'd argue that while there is benefit to this position, >> > there's also a point where Mediocrity is just as much the enemy of the >> > Good, and in many respects far more dangerous. >> > >> > I can give a good example of this from my own work. I am working on, >> among >> > other things, trying to develop an ontology for data interchange in a >> > Federal insurance program. It is a project that%2
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