ISO TC 215 - ISO TS 13582

History of Titles

• ISO/TC 215/WG 3 NWI Proposal 680, TS "Health Informatics - Communication model and XMLInterface Specification for OID Registries (ComoXOID)", 2008.
• ISO 13582 - Health informatics - Communication and metadata model and XML-interface specification for OID registries in healthcare - Technical Specification. 2010
• ISO 13582 - Health informatics - Sharing of OID registry information - Technical Specification. 2010

Scope

This International Standard specifies the mandatory and optional information to be recorded in any repository of OIDs, using an information model.

It specifies what parts of that information shall be regarded as public, and what parts shall be subject to security and privacy requirements.

In detail, this International Standard:

• specifies an XML format for the export of the contents of an OID repository, suitable for import to a different OID repository;
• specifies security procedures related to that export/import;
• references the Object Identifier Resolution System (ORS) which provides a look-up mechanism for information related to an object identifier, with guidance on the use of that facility.

Introduction

OID (Object Identifiers) are unique identifiers for any kind of objects. They are defined in Rec. ITU-T X.660 | ISO/IEC 9834-1. This identification system for objects and concepts makes reliable electronic information exchange possible. Administration and Registration is regulated by a set of rules (see also ISO/NWIP/TR "Health Informatics – Guidance for maintenance of Object Identifiers OID").

The precise designation of objects and concepts is a pre-requisite for the standardized exchange of information. A globally unique identifier for each of these concepts will help to ensure international exchangeability of objects within different applications (e.g. healthcare information systems). For example, OIDs are often used within HL7 messages and documents, and Rec. ITU-T X.509 certificates to provide this unique identification.

In the exchange of healthcare information, especially between loosely coupled systems, additional information about the object being identified is generally very beneficial; this is information that is typically not contained in a transaction of data between systems but is reference information about the objects contained in the transaction. There is a minimal set of such information, such as Responsible Organizations, a human readable name, a description of the object, and other such information that is needed for any meaningful use of the objects identified. Since such information may not be locally available to a system examining the communicated objects, it makes sense to have such information available in a standardized form, and accessed by using the OID to identify this information. Such information, referred to as the OID metadata, is the bulk of the information housed in an OID Registry.

Today, due to lack of standardization of the set of metadata (both content and structure), existing OID registries are not compatible. Contents, attributes and rules of the assignment of OIDs of existing registries are incompatible and often dissimilar. Many registries still distribute OIDs in a form only suitable for direct text processing (like spreadsheets) that is error prone and hard to automate. There is a need to store and transfer collections of OIDs and also to keep some registries completely in sync, maintaining the contents and the structure of metadata of each of the registered OIDs e.g. descriptions, comments, versions, links, relations, responsible organizations and persons, etc.

Data exchange can be facilitated by a standardized representation of a required minimum set of metadata as an XML structure together with the associated checks of underlying constraints and business rules. This XML structure for importing and exporting OIDs amongst different registries should be achieved for supporting eHealth applications. In addition, the failure to have a standard for the operations needed to coordinated and synchronize the contents of disparate OID registries leads to confusion and ambiguity for the community that uses eHealth information containing references to objects identified by OIDs.

There are currently at least hundreds of OID registries in active use throughout the world. These are sponsored and operated by disparate entities, ranging from national governments, to individual companies or standards organizations, to individuals in a specialized area or industry. In many cases, more than one of these registries address the same industry segment, and have overlapping content, i.e. specific OIDs exist in both, or worse, different OIDs identifying the same object exist in both. This distributed set of disparate registries servicing a particular industry (specifically Healthcare IT) has led to awkward and error prone searching processes. To get information about existing OIDs, a search within all existing registries is needed, for example to avoid duplicate assignment of multiple OIDs to one and the same concept. In order to standardize the activities to synchronise all existing OID registries and to ensure further interoperability it is essential to have a defined exchange format and business rules for maintenance of the OID registries that must cooperate in a particular industry.

Some OID registries are operated by essentially volunteer organizations, such as Standards Bodies. The burden of administrative tasks is such that multiple individuals, often in different geographical locations, must participate to share the workload. Thus in addition to distributed Registry instances, administrative functions need to also be distributed, both on single and potentially across multiple Registries. There is a need for the standardization of a minimum set of administrative access and operational functions such that developers of Registries can deploy standard mechanisms to streamline and increase accuracy and productivity of these maintenance operations.

This NWIP is a proposal for a new document and describes a generic exchange format that will cover the minimal set of metadata and associated rules for OIDs of existing registries. It specifies principles and processes that should be explored/implemented by developers and data administrators of OID registries and their applicant bodies. The primary target group for this document are those establishing OID Registries and those (industry, government bodies) using the services maintained by such organizations.

Additional descriptions

A general description of the registration procedures for various parts of the object identifier tree, by reference to other specifications and links to other documents is given in ISO 13581 - Health informatics - Guidance for maintenance of object identifiers, OID - Technical Report.

Annex A is a specific description for the registration procedures for e-health related OIDs, and includes a specification of those parts of the OID tree that are known to be used for national and for international e-health applications.

Related work

This work is related to discussions about OID in the work programme of TC 215 WG3, HL7, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6, ITU-T SG 17 and other organizations dealing with OIDs and OID registries.

Approach

Following an extensive analysis of the currently available international OID register for health care systems, a basic data set and a corresponding XML representation as an exchange format need to be created for registering and exchanging OID-related data. To collect the very basic requirements to such a format an analysis of several registers (e.g. HL7 International register and several European registers was performed so far (see Table 1). The analysis included the contents, attributes and even the rules of the assignment of OID.

Table 1: Analysis of some data elements of different OID registries and repositories

DIMDI	France Telecom-Orange OID repository	HL7 INTERNATIONAL
DESCRIPTIONENGLISH	DESCRIPTION, INFORMATION	OBJECT_DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTIONGERMAN
ASN1NOTATION	ASN1-NOTATION	COMP_OID
MODIFICATIONDATE	MODIFICATION-DATE
CREATIONDATE	CREATION-DATE	DATE_FINALIZED
APPLICATIONDATE
TYPE		OID_TYPE
FAMILY	LAST-NAME	NAME
GIVEN	FIRST-NAME	NAME

Only a few of the registers specified an (XML-) exchange format. Due to lack of a common understanding of OID registry requirements, data fields must be mapped (manually) when OID information needed to be exchanged.

Definitions

OID registry and OID repository

An OID registry maintains a list of OIDs.

Typically additional information (metadata, such as responsible organizations, a human readable name, a description of the object, and other information that is needed for any meaningful use of the object identified) associated with the OID is stored also. With that, a registry is then a repository at the same time.

Maintaining the list (and associated metadata) happens regardless whether it is an official register for allocations of new OIDs under a given OID arc, or just a copy of information from other registries.

Official OID registries/repositories responsible for allocations of new OIDs under a given OID arc are Registration Authorities.

Registration Authority (RA)

A Registration Authority (RA) is responsible for allocating child arcs to the OID that it manages (issuing authority).

It ensures that an integer is used once among the subsequent arcs (child OIDs). As much as possible, it avoids the same identifier (beginning with a lowercase letter) being used for multiple sub-arcs.

Such information is typically stored in the OID registry/repository but it is important to understand that an OID first need to be officially allocated by an RA before it can be described in an OID repository.

For each child OID, the RA also keeps a record of additional information (like name of a contact person, postal address, telephone and fax numbers, email address, etc.) about the Responsible Authority for that child OID.

A responsible authority for a child OID is formally becoming a RA for that child OID, as it may allocate sub arcs.

Responsible Authority (MA)

A Responsible (Managing) Authority (MA) is used to indicate the person (if known) and organization who is currently in charge of managing the OID.

Once a responsible authority is allocating subarcs and registering information on these subarcs, it also becomes the Registration Authority for these subarcs.

Submitting Authority (SA)

This information is optional and reflects the person or organization that submitted the original OID allocation request.

Relationship to definitions from other sources

Current Registrant

In some OID registries, Current Registrants are stored. The definitions from other sources say that the Current Registrant is used to indicate the person (if known) who is currently in charge of managing the OID, allocating subarcs and registering information on these subarcs.

First Registrant

In some OID registries, First Registrants are stored. The definitions from other sources say that the First Registrant is used to indicate the very first person (if known) who was responsible to manage the OID and who created it in the first instance.

Other sources: The first Registration Authority of an OID is the very first person or company to whom the OID was allocated by the RA of the superior OID. According to Rec. ITU-T X.660 | ISO/IEC 9834-1, the first RA can't be changed (if the responsibility is transferred to someone else, the information is recorded in the "Current Registration Authority" section, without changing the "First Registration Authority" section).

Rec. ITU-T X.660 | ISO/IEC 9834-1

In ITU-T Recommendation X.660 the following defintions are given.

3.6.8 registration authority: An entity such as an organization, a standard or an automated facility that performs registration of one or more types of objects (see also International Registration Authority).

3.6.2 administrative role (of a registration authority): Assigning and making available unambiguous names according to the Recommendation | International Standard defining the procedures for the authority.

3.6.14 technical role (of a registration authority): Recording definitions of the objects to which names are assigned and verifying that these definitions are in accordance with the Recommendation | International Standard defining the form of the definition.

Abbreviations and acronyms

TBD

Use Cases

A list of OID Registry Use Cases has been defined in order to drive metadata model requirements, and functional requirements for Registry interoperability.

U6: OID Information Request

Search for a list of OID based on various sub-criteria, with and without wildcards

• Those registered by a particular entity
• Those associated with a type of information object
• Those associated with implementation guides
• Those registered during some time period
• etc.

Communication model

In order to exchange OID and their metadata between different registers and applications the following additional data items beyond the OID itself need to be taken under consideration (see also ):

• descriptions
• status information
• categorization
• time information
• comments
• versions
• links
• relationships to other OIDs and external sources
• registering and responsible organizations
• associated persons.

A communication model with all classes, attributes and their properties aiming on a common understanding of the requirements of an OID registry has been created.

XML exchange format

Data exchange can be facilitated by a standardized representation of the complete set of information as XML structure together with the associated checks of underlying constraints and business rules. This XML structure for importing and exporting OID amongst different registries and other healthcare applications is aiming on the availability of reliable information about OIDs.

The following sections summarise and explain classes and their attributes.

ThisOIDregistry

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This is the basic information about the OID-Registry hosting the OIDs.

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Datatype	Cardinality	Conformance	Recommended Length
validTime	validity time interval	IVL_TS	1..*	mandatory	-
scopedOIDs	List of scoped root OIDs	ST.OID	1..*	mandatory	64
name	Official name of the OID registry	ST	1..1	mandatory	64
desc	Description of the OID registry	ST	0..1	optional	2048

validTime

This is the validity time interval, i.e. the begin (and end) time when this registry is/was responsible for registering OIDs. This can be a list of intervals.

scopedOIDs

List of scoped OIDs, i.e. the OIDs for which this OID-Registry is responsible for registration

name

Official name of the OID registry

desc

A description of the OID registry

Associations

Association	Description	Associated class	Cardinality	Conformance
hostingOrganization	Hosting organization	Organization	1..*	mandatory
person	Contact person(s)	Person	1..*	mandatory
oid	List of OIDs	OID	0..*	required

Example

<ThisOIDRegistry>
    <validTime>
        <low value="20100501"/>
    </validTime>
    <scopedOID value="1.2.3.4.5"/>
    <name value="The best OID registry ever"/>
    <desc value="This is a test OID registry, although the best"/>
    <person> ... </person>
    <organization> ... </organization>
    <OID> ... </OID>
</ThisOIDRegistry>

OID

This class contains the registered OID and the associated meta data.

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Datatype	Cardinality	Conformance	Recommended Length
dotNotation	registered OID, dot notation	ST.OID	1..1	mandatory	64
asn1Notation	ASN.1 notation	ST.ASN1	0..1	optional	128
iriNotation	IRI notation	ST.IRI	0..1	optional	128
symbolicName	symbolic name	ST.SYMB	0..1	optional	128
category	OID category	CS	1..1	required	-
status	OID status	CS	1..1	mandatory	-
creationDate	date of creation	TS	0..1	optional	-
realm	countries	CS	0..*	optional	-

dotNotation

The OID in dot notation of SNMP or ASN.1/XER.

Example:

2.16.528

asn1Notation

The OID in ASN.1 notation with (optional) identifiers and numbers.

Examples:

{joint-iso-itu-t(2) country(16) nl(528)}

{itu-t(0) recommendation(0) a(1)}.

iriNotation

The OID in Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI) notation.

Example:

oid:/Country/528

symbolicName / Secondary Arc Identifier

A symbolic short name, unique among the siblings of the arc of the OID.

The ISO rules on Secondary Arc Identifiers, as laid out in Rec. ITU-T | ISO/IEC 9834-1 Procedures for Registration Authorities, section 6.2.2, apply:

• identifiers of an arc are required to commence with a lowercase letter, and to contain only letters, digits, and hyphens.
• the last characters shall not be a hyphen
• there shall be no two consecutive hyphens in the name

Example

nl

category

Type/category of OID, enumeration, values: OIDCategory

There are actually two main types of OIDs: leafs (id of an object), and nodes representing an ontological branch.

The types of node OID may be

• a registration authority (RA) or
• a structure for the management of OIDs.

The proposal for sub categories of leaf OIDs are

• identifiers of an instance of an object (for example a person)
• namespace identifiers (for example code systems, value sets)

status

Status of the OID. This is an enumeration, for values see: OIDstatus

creationDate

The creationDate is used to describe when the OID was first registered. It is not the date when the OID description is submitted to the OID repository. The creationDate, once set, never changes.

realm

Code of country or "UV" for universal. This is an enumeration, for values see: CountryCodes.

Associations

Association	Description	Associated class	Cardinality	Conformance
registrationAuthority	Registration Authority	RegistrationAuthority	1..1	mandatory
responsibleAuthority	Responsible Authority	ResponsibleAuthority	1..*	mandatory
submittingAuthority	Submitting Authority	SubmittingAuthority	0..1	optional
description	Description	Description	1..*	mandatory
additionalProperty	Additional Properties	AdditionalProperty	0..*	optional
historyAnnotation	History Annotations	HistoryAnnotation	0..*	optional
reference	References	Reference	0..*	optional

RegistrationAuthority

This class represents the RegistrationAuthority (RA)

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Datatype	Cardinality	Conformance	Recommended Length
code	RA role code	CS	1..1	mandatory	-

code

The code holds information about the role type of the RA. Valid codes are listed in RoleCodes.

Associations

Association	Description	Associated class	Cardinality	Conformance
scopingOrganization	Scoping organization	Organization	1..*	mandatory
person	Contact person(s)	Person	1..*	mandatory

ResponsibleAuthority

This is a class representing the (managing) authority that is responsible for the object that is identified by the OID (not for the OID itself).

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Datatype	Cardinality	Conformance	Recommended Length
code	role code	CS	1..1	mandatory	-
statusCode	status code	CS	1..1	mandatory	-
validTime	validity time	IVL_TS	1..*	mandatory	-

code

The code holds information about the role type of the ResponsibleAuthority. Valid codes are listed in RoleCodes.

statusCode

The statusCode holds information about the status of the ResponsibleAuthority. Valid codes are listed in RoleStatus.

validTime

This is an interval of time, representing the period when the ResponsibleAuthority is/was responsible for the object that is identified by the OID. If the ResponsibleAuthority is still responsible, only the <low> element is populated.

Associations

Association	Description	Associated class	Cardinality	Conformance
scopingOrganization	Scoping organization	Organization	1..*	mandatory
person	Contact person(s)	Person	1..*	mandatory

SubmittingAuthority

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Datatype	Cardinality	Conformance	Recommended Length
code	role code	CS	1..1	mandatory	-
applicationDate	date of application	TS	0..1	optional	-

code

The code holds information about the role type of the submitting authority. Valid codes are listed in RoleCodes.

applicationDate

Date of application (submission or certified submission) of the requested OID.

Associations

Association	Description	Associated class	Cardinality	Conformance
scopingOrganization	Scoping organization	Organization	1..*	mandatory
person	Contact person(s)	Person	1..*	mandatory

Description

This class contains a free text description of the OID ("what is the OID?"). The text typically contains an explaination but also can contain:

• explicit versioning aspects
• licensing information
• Intellectual Property rights information
• trademarks.

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Datatype	Cardinality	Conformance	Recommended Length
text	textual description	ED	1..1	mandatory	-

AdditionalProperty

This class reflects additional properties of an OID that might be used to fit business rules that cannot (or should not) be standardized. This includes:

• additional categories
• additional status information
• tags, simple text
• coded properties

It is made of an

• attribute
• value

Attribute	Description	Datatype	Cardinality	Conformance	Recommended Length
attribute	Additional property type	ST	1..1	mandatory	-
value	Additional property value	ST	1..1	mandatory	-

HistoryAnnotation

This class reflects historical annotations of the OID and records the changes of any data over time.

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Datatype	Cardinality	Conformance	Recommended Length
creationDate	date annotation was created	TS	0..1	optional	-
text	annotation	ED	1..1	mandatory	-

Reference

This class provides a link to

• other data sources, code tables, value sets, descriptions etc; typically this is a URL and always points to an object with different semantics than the OID itself.
• other OIDs (within or outside this OID registry) in order to be able to express that an OID has been superseded/replaced or that there is a preferred OID.

The nature of the reference is coded in the type attribute, vocabulary is ReferenceType.

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Datatype	Cardinality	Conformance	Recommended Length
ref	reference URI	URI	1..1	mandatory	-
type	type of reference	CS	1..1	mandatory	-
lastVisitedDate	date URI last visited	TS	0..1	optional	-

Person

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Datatype	Cardinality	Conformance	Recommended Length
name	person's name	EN.PN	1..*	mandatory	-
addr	person's address	AD	0..*	optional	-
telecom	person's telecommunication contact	TEL	0..*	optional	-

Organization

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Datatype	Cardinality	Conformance	Recommended Length
id	id (OID) of the organization	OID	0..*	optional	-
name	name of the organization	ST	1..*	mandatory	-
addr	address of the organization	AD	0..*	optional	-
telecom	telecommunication contact of the organization	TEL	0..*	optional	-

List of code systems

CountryCodes

ISO 3166-1 alpha two letter country codes are used. This list states the country names as given in ISO 3166-1 and the corresponding ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code elements.

Example:

NL

LanguageCodes

Reflects the Human Language. Language is specified conformant to RFC 3066 (Tags for the Identification of Languages). The format is

ss[-CC]

where ss is the language code drawn from ISO-639-1, and CC is the country code, conformant to ISO-3166 alpha-2.

Example:

en-US

OIDcategory

Code	Description
N	node
NRA	registration authority (RA)
NMN	structure for the management of OIDs (it is not good practice but we know that some of these nodes in some registries also identify objects, which should not be)
L	leaf
LIO	an instance of an object
LNS	a namespace identifier

ObjectType

Type of object identified by the OID.

In HL7 this is

• Bodies (persons, organization)
• Identifier systems (to be used in an II data type)
• Public coding systems
• Internal coding systems (HL7 as a terminology authority)
• Documentation products / documents (normative edition, implementation guides etc.)
• Registered conformance profiles
• Templates
• V2 tables (really???)
• Value sets (created at the HL7 harmonization proces)
• Value sets (created and maintained by other authorities)
• Examples (published)

OIDstatus

This code reflects the status of the OID. Valid values are:

Code	Description
pending	OID assignment pending
complete	assignment complete
retired	OID retired/withdrawn
unknown	status of the OID unknown

ReferenceType

The type of reference covers the following values:

Code	Description
RPLC	replaced by OID
PREF	preferred OID
LINK	link access (to code and value set tables)
IDSD	identification scheme documentation

RoleCodes

This covers the kind of role:

Code	Description
PRI	primary
SEC	secondary
OBO	on behalf of
CON	contact person

RoleStatus

This covers the status of role:

Code	Description
active	active
terminated	terminated

Data types

ISO data types are used for the XML representation of data. In some cases additional flavors are defined.

The following section gives examples and describes the restrictions / contraints on the generic specification.

Address AD

Example:

<addr use="HP">
 <part type="STR" value="Windsteiner Weg"/>
 <part type="BNR" value="54a"/>
 <part type="CNT" code="DEU" codeSystem=" 1.0.3166.1.2" value="D"/>
 <part type="ZIP" value="14165"/>
 <part type="CTY" value="Berlin"/>
</addr>

Coded Simple CS

Example:

<statusCode code="OBO"/>

Encapsulated Data ED

(for mime: Text and HTML only (flavor id ED:TEXT, with language code) Example:

<text value="this is plain text" language="en" mediaType="text/plain"/> 
<text value="dieses ist normaler Text" language="de" mediaType="text/plain"/>

Entity Name EN

Example:

<name use="OR C">
 <part type="GIV" value="Selby"/>
 <part type="FAM" qualifier="SP" value="Butt"/>
 <part type="FAM" value="Hadrian"/>
</name>

Interval of time stamp IVL_TS

Example:

<validTime>
  <low value="20101201" />
  <high value="20101224" />
</validTime>

String ST

Example:

<description value="I am a piece of text"/>

Object Identifier (dot notation) ST.OID

This is actually a character string (ST) with a certain pattern.

The pattern is:

\{?\s*(0|[1-9][0-9]*)(\.(0|[1-9][0-9]*))*\s*\}?

Example:

<oid value="1.2.3.4.5.0.6.7.8.9"/>

Object Identifier (asn1 notation) ST.ASN1

This is actually a character string (ST) with a certain pattern.

The pattern is:

\{?\s*(([a-z][a-zA-Z0-9\-]*\s*((\s*(0|[1-9][0-9]*)\s*\))?|(0|[1-9][0-9]*))\s*){2,}\s*\}?

Object Identifier (iri notation) ST.IRI

This is actually a character string (ST) with a certain pattern.

The pattern is:

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Symbolic name ST.SYMB

This is actually a character string (ST) with a certain pattern.

The pattern is:

^[a-z]([a-z]|[A-Z]|[0-9]|[\-][^-])*([^-])?$

Telecommunication TEL

Example:

<telecom value="tel:+491234567890" use="H WP" capabilities="voice fax"/>

Time stamp TS

Example:

<applicationDate value="20101205"/>

Uniform Resource Identification URI

This is actually a character string with a certain pattern.

Example:

<uri value="http://x.y.org"/>

See also: .

Basic interactions between OID registries

A set of basic interactions is developed and documented in order to facilitate the exchange of OID-related information between registries. This will include at least the following transactions:

• Share OID list
• Retrieve OID list

Annex A

Annex A is a specific description for the registration procedures for e-health related OIDs, and includes a specification of those parts of the OID tree that are known to be used for national and for international e-health applications.