Re: [ubl-lcsc] [code] ISO considering charging for commercial useof code lists

[Tim McGrath <tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au>]

Welcome back sue,

it is good to know that UN/ECE can provide many of these.  With respect 
to your final question, it would help if you could look at the package 
Stepehen just posted 'draft 4 models of UBL 1.0 alpha' and particularly 
try and populate column I "External Source Agency" of the Code List 
Catalogue with your recommendations/suggestions.  to date we have not 
paid too much attention to this but as we move from theory into practice 
we will have to start considering our options here.  in principal the 
recommendations of CEFACT (or more correctly UN/ECE) would be the first 
choice.

at this stage we are not necessarily asking agencies to provide the 
 schemas for these codes - just the raw data.  my guess is we shall 
build these ourselves as part of 1.0 alpha (and beta) then during trial 
implementation we will start to get them outsourced.

we plan to discuss this as part of the review on tuesday's call.

Sue Probert wrote:

>Ken
>
>I don't believe that this is a problem for us, at least not yet, because the
>two key ISO code lists that we need are co-published by ISO and UN/ECE and
>available free from UN/ECE.
>
>These are a) the 3166 ISO Country Code List which is published by UN/ECE as
>UN/ECE Recommendation No 3 and b) the ISO 4217 Currency Code list which is
>published by UN/ECE as UN/ECE Recommendation No 9. The UN/ECE versions are
>subsets of the full ISO lists bit nevertheless they do provide all that we
>require for ebusiness so we don't need to pay for them.
>
>BTW The UOM, units of measurements, code list is published by UN/ECE and not
>by ISO. This list  is UN/ECE Recommendation No 20 and is therefore free too.
>
>Are there any others that we use in UBL so far?
>
>cheers
>
>Sue
>
>Sue Probert
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>email sue.probert@dial.pipex.com
>
>  
>

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