<story><title>Instructions around the usage of meta robot tags and robots.txt files</title><url>https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide/commit/bc8e96e5467202ea8f78f50582adfd221b91a948</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mimsee</author><text>Why are they banning the methods instead of saying how the pricing should be displayed. E.g. why say you cannot have &amp;quot;noindex&amp;quot; instead of saying &amp;quot;the pricing information needs to be in plain-text, human-readable, accessible, indexable...&amp;quot; and so on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmkg</author><text>They are doing that as well. They are posting general requirements, as well as providing details on specific situations. From the main project @ &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;CMSgov&amp;#x2F;price-transparency-guide&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;CMSgov&amp;#x2F;price-transparency-guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Section: Overview&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;All machine-readable files must [...] made available to the public without restrictions that would impede the re-use of that information.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Section: Public Discoverability&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;These machine-readable files post made available to the public without restrictions that would impede the re-use of that information.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Instructions around the usage of meta robot tags and robots.txt files</title><url>https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide/commit/bc8e96e5467202ea8f78f50582adfd221b91a948</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mimsee</author><text>Why are they banning the methods instead of saying how the pricing should be displayed. E.g. why say you cannot have &amp;quot;noindex&amp;quot; instead of saying &amp;quot;the pricing information needs to be in plain-text, human-readable, accessible, indexable...&amp;quot; and so on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmah</author><text>They do both.  As well as provide a description of the regulation&amp;#x27;s goals, context and examples.  This is how regulation works.  It typically starts with a rather vague law, then the regulatory agencies make up general rules to implement said law.  Then they create a bunch of more detailed rules.  Then as times change, they amend those rules.  You can even ask them about novel situations and get a (non-binding) &amp;quot;opinion&amp;quot; from government agency.  In my experience, the federal gov regulatory apparatus is not as inept as most people seem to think.</text></comment>