Overall solid introduction to the space. EDI was one of the things that boggled my mind early in my career. > What we’re seeing here is that while a standard c

Overall solid introduction to the space. EDI was one of the things that boggled my mind early in my career. > What we’re seeing here is that while a standard can be opinionated about the structure of a document and the naming of fields, it cannot be opinionated about the contents of a business transaction – the contents of a business transaction are dictated by the idiosyncrasies of the business itself. Maybe it's the engineer in me speaking, but this seems like a pretty unfortunate stance to take. Sort of similar to saying, "we have the concept of HTTP status codes, but we cannot possibly opine on the codes themselves." A bit hyperbolic for sure, but not having opinions on critical multi-party information has led to things like the reluctance of financial services to support non-ASCII values for customer names.