Establish IGAMT as the HL7 V2 IG Publication Tool

Establish IGAMT (Implementation Guide Authoring and Management Tool) as V2 Publishing Tool

IGAMT is one tool in a tool set supporting HL7 v2 specification development, test plan development (including test data creation), and message validation (conformance testing). Artifacts created in IGAMT are essential in the test plan and validation tools, however, these are out of scope and will be addressed through other projects.

As the IGAMT tool is developed and maintained by a US Federal Agency (NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology) we need to address how the tool can be supported for non-US users. This requires further consideration beyond the scope of this project, while we will not restrict use cases to US-Realm.

We also recognize that NIST funding is not guaranteed, thus we need to consider contingency plans for adopting the tool in the event that NIST needs to withdraw its support. We note that the tools are open-source, providing some level of continuity in such an event.

It is not in scope to clarify IP at a universal, realm, or jurisdiction level.

To support introduction of IGAMT we need various updates to Chapter 2B Conformance constructs, which will be addressed through a separate PSS.

The scope is limited to IGs moving forward rather than retrofitting old IGs, although. workgroups may decide to create a new version to reap the benefits to the tools.