NIEM - National Information Exchange Model

[Jim Beard <beard@counterclaim.com>]

Howdy Folks,

	I wasn't able to attend the GJXDM Conference in February, and happened 
to recently run into information about the National Information 
Exchange Model (www.niem.gov).  NIEM is intended to be a 'National 
extension of the Global JXDM" (I found it a little odd that there was a 
national extension of a global concept, but hey..).  Anyway, I was 
curious as to what the members of this list think about NIEM.  Does it 
effect the work we are doing now?  If so how?  Will NIEM oversee future 
changes to GJXDM?  Should we be working with NIEM members, or should 
they be listening to what we are doing?  Maybe this is already going on 
and I am simply unaware of it?  I was surprised that I hadn't seen this 
topic mentioned on the list yet.

	Any comments or thoughts are welcome.

Thanks,

Jim Beard
counterclaim, Inc
http://www.counterclaim.com
http://openefm.sourceforge.net
(800) 264-8145