[Asis-standards] NISO NCIP Standard

[Mark Needleman]

Folks

i just read through the 2 parts of the new version on the NISO NCIP 
standard and, although I have some reservations about the changes that 
were made in version 2, I tend to agree we should votes YES on them

There area bunch of minor things I would have opposed if i was still on 
the committee - but my major problem is with the extensibility mechanism 
that was introduced in version 2 - an extensibility mechanism is 
probably necessary for a standard like NCIP but I think the new version 
goes a bit too far and could possibly lead to interoperability problems 
among implementations. However the concept of Application Profiles that 
we introduced in the original version of the standard, if defined 
properly, could mitigate this problem to some extent

Extensibility was a leading issue of discussion when we defined the 
initial version and we put mechanisms in place to limit extensibility in 
favor of promoting interoperability. Version 2 removes many (if not all) 
of those mechanisms

However I have not been involved with implementation of NCIP in awhile 
so I can only assume the changes were made to meet the requirements of 
systems that were implementing NCIP and felt the restrictions on 
extensibility were making those implementations more difficult.

Thoughts on this? Objections?

mark