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Another change is to break up the industry standards into smaller independent pieces. It would be interesting to see a complexity assessment model of various industry standards and see what the local rate of change is and for what kinds of information. It’s easier to blame the process or the mammals manning the helms and sometimes that is right, but it might also be that the wrong tool is being applied or the information is dynamic by nature (somewhere a feedback loop is cycling chaotically).
Everywhere one finds a wildcard, there is an unconstrained decision list and that means there is no static consensus. It might be a good idea to push that off into its own space and work out why this function isn’t converging.
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> The industry standards need to move at a faster pace
Agree entirely, however the motivations of some are to constrain change, and concensus is typically hard to acheive. An industry standards body also often finds itself trapped between the competing interests of its members and ... well I could go on, but we all understand the problem.
My motivation is to encourage the standards body to allow for private extensions in schemata. There is no reason why a standards body needs or should be in the middle of trading partner agreements which manifest themselves in data exchanges private to those individual organisations. The concern often expressed is that private extension degenerates the standard, but the reality is, without the ability to accomodate change (both breaking an non breaking) and allowing participants to adopt change at a time of their own choosing, then a standard has no future. Natural market pressures will drive adoption. Extensibility (call it forwards/backwards compatibility if you like) is certainly part of the solution, and, as you point out, careful selction of what should be mandatory and optional, and implementation of various validation schemes that support the level of compatibility/tolerance that an individual or pair of trading partners require, and .... well you get the picture.
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