RE: Dear Prudence: Do I have to pay for codes??

[Todd Boyle <tboyle@rosehill.net>]

Regarding the controversy on ebxml Core components, whether 
the public should be required to pay for things like lists
of barcode numbers, medical codes, and metadata, I hesitate 
to post without my asbestos suit!  Here are fragments,
http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-core/200104/msg00107.html
http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-core/200104/msg00101.html

But there have already been some sporadic comments that
some reg rep functions might be better performed by 
unregulated peer to peer applications, that might 
perform very well, reduce network traffic, scale better,
and be impossible for vendors to capture to collect rents 
and snoop private information.

Once these P2P applications start happening, they would tend
to grow and mutate quickly.  I think it would be a good
thing for the whole business community, and for civilization. 

Todd