INM Pre-May WGM out-of-cycle Meeting

INM will hold an out-of-cycle meeting related to Transmission and Transports in San Antonio immediately prior to the WGM.

Dates: Saturday May 6 Q1-Q4, and Sunday May 7 Q1 & Q2. Location: The WGM conference hotel.

Topics

Our intent is to do mini-harmonization for the Transmission and Transport domains, and in addition, to find solutions for some of the festering issues that exist in the overlapping areas between these areas. These issues are long running issuesthat do not fit well into the ballot process, and we have been struggling to find time or a process to give them any substantial consideration.

There is a large number of outstanding issues. Generally,there is a scope question relating the concept of interactions, transmissions, transports, how they inter-relate with each other, and how the historical HL7 approach relates to approaches taken in other industries or by other standards bodies (note that we use these other standards for actual transport).

Specifically, there is a long list of issues on our plate. For further details, our open issue lists on which would base some of our agenda can be found on the wiki:

• Open ATS Issues, Open Transmission Wrapper Issues, Open Control Act Issues
• Other then the open issues on the wiki, there is also these issues:
  • relation of the Abstract Transport Specification to SOA message delivery patterns, see SOA versus Message Transmission
  • SOA vs Webservices & ebXML, overlapping functionality between HL7 & the transport protocol (reliability, commit ack, sequence number protocol)

Participants

(please add your name to this list should you plan to attend, or send an e-mail to one of the INM co-chairs)

Attending persons (sorted by first name):

• Alan Honey (SOA SIG, KP)
• Joann Larson (INM co-chair, KP)
• Grahame Grieve (INM co-chair, Jiva Medical)
• Mirsolav Koncar (ATS Editor, Ericsson Nikola Tesla)
• Paul Knapp (ebXML editor)
• Rene Spronk (INM co-chair, Ringholm)