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Subject: FW: OASIS and XNS.ORG - Potential Co-operation
-----Original Message----- From: Laura Walker: OASIS [mailto:laura.walker@oasis-open.org] Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 10:44 AM To: Ram Kumar; 'XNS Talk' Cc: karl.best@oasis-open.org; ciq@lists.oasis-open.org; Norbert@DataChannel.com Subject: RE: OASIS and XNS.ORG - Potential Co-operation As Karl is on vacation for a few days, I thought I would respond -- lest you think we're not interested! OASIS is absolutely committed to collaboration (and, ideally, convergence) in this area. There are a number of ways we can achieve this. We look forward to talking with you further. Regards, Laura Laura Walker Executive Director OASIS +1 978 667 5115 x201 +1 978 667 5114 Fax OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org XML.ORG http://xml.org The XML Cover Pages http://xml.coverpages.org CGM Open http://www.cgmopen.org ebXML http://www.ebxml.org -----Original Message----- From: Ram Kumar [mailto:rkumar@msi.com.au] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 11:50 PM To: 'XNS Talk' Cc: karl.best@oasis-open.org; laura.walker@oasis-open.org; ciq@lists.oasis-open.org; Norbert@DataChannel.com Subject: OASIS and XNS.ORG - Potential Co-operation Drummond > Ram, > > Thank you very much for posting this. As it happens, one of > the participants > to XNS gave me a reference to the OASIS CIQ effort not long > ago and, when I > reviewed the web pages, I immediately came to the conclusion > there was very > significant synergy. Thanks for the quick response. It is nice to know that XNS recognises that there is very significant synergy between CIQ and XNS. > > This is true of several other OASIS TCs, especially the > Security Services > area and SAML. > > Since a number of the companies reviewing XNS have pointed > out this synergy > with OASIS, and it has only been lack of bandwidth on our > side that we have > not initiated any discussions with OASIS yet. But we would > look forward to > doing that. > > How would you like to proceed with discussing this? I have copied this e-mail to Karl Best, The Director of Technical Services at OASIS because of your interest expressed at the OASIS level. I am sure Karl will be able to provide you with an answer on how XNS and OASIS can collaborate in general. Regards Ram > > Best, > > =Drummond= > > Drummond Reed, > Chair, XNSORG Technical Specification WG > CTO, OneName Corp. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ram Kumar [mailto:rkumar@msi.com.au] > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 5:18 PM > To: xns-talk@lists.xns.org > Cc: washburn@xns.org > Subject: XML Standards for "Global" Customer Information Management > > Hi > > The following is for your information. > > The Customer Information Quality Technical committee of OASIS > is close to > releasing XML standards for customer information/profile > management. The > standards > developed are: > > xNAL: eXtensible Name and Address Language. Name and Address > data is the > most complex > "customer" data as it varies significantly between countries. > This standard > was developed by the > committee that had members who had over 15 years of expertise > in managing > name and address > data. This standard can handle customer name and address data > from more than > 100 countries and > is currently being tuned now to make it truly global. The > beauty of this > standard that the data can be > fragmented into detailed level or can be represented in a > higher abstract > level. Example: > > 23 Archer Street, > Chatswood, > NSW 2067, > Australia > > The following are valid acording to the standard: > > <AddressLines> > <AddressLine>23 Archer Street</AddressLine> > <AddressLine>Chatswood</AddressLine> > <AddressLine>NSW 2067</AddressLine> > <AddressLine>Australia</AddressLine> > </AddressLine> > > OR > > <AddressDetails> > <Country> > <CountryName>Australia</CountryName> > <AdministraiveArea Type="State"> > <AdministrativeAreaName>NSW</AdministrativeAreaName> > <Locality Type="Suburb"> > <LocalityName>Chatswood</LocalityName> > <Street> > <StreetName>Archer</StreetName> > <StreetType>Street</StreetType> > <StreetNumber>23</StreetNumber> > </Street> > <PostalCode> > <PostalCodeNumber>2067</PostalCodeNumber> > </PostalCode> > </Locality> > </AdministrativeArea> > </Country> > </AddressDetails> > > You can also mix detailed level and abstract level within the > same data. > For example <StreetName> can be just the name of the street as above > or it can be "Archer Street". Or, AddressLine can be mixed > with detailed > description. > > For maintenance & flexibility purposes, xNAL has been broken > up into two > languages > that it uses as references. The languages are: > > xNL : eXtensible Name Language, that deals with customer name data ( a > customer > can be a person or company) and provides more than 30 XML > tags to represent > name > data. It can also handle relationships (eg. C/O, W/O, etc...) > > xAL: eXtensible Address Language, that deals with customer > address data and > provides more than 100 XML tags to represent the data. It can handle > multiple > addresses for a customer that helps to keep track of customer address > changes. > It has been tested for over 80 countries' address data. > > The other standard that the committee has developed is called: > xCIL: eXtensible Customer Information Language that deals > with data that is > customer-centric > (eg. tel, DOB, Occupation, sex, age, account, ID cards, etc) > and that helps > to uniquely identify > a customer. It also uses xNL and xAL as references. It > provides more than > 120 XML tags to > represent customer data at a detailed level or at an abstract level. > Uniquely identifying a customer > is the most difficult process in a CRM business as companies > are desparately > trying hard to > get a "Single View of a Customer" across their disparate databases. > > Note that this committee is not in the business of concentrating on > Transport layer, security layer, > privacy etc. of customer data. All it is concentrating is on > developing a > common and global standard > for representing customer data that improves data quality and data > integrity. This standard is not > only applicable to e-business, but to any business that uses > customer data. > > The committee is also working on a new standard called xCRL > (eXtensible > Customer Relationship > Language) that will enable dealing with : > - Person to Person relationships (contact details, > dependency, trustees, > beneficiaries, etc...) > - Person to company relationships, and (trading as, > dependency, contact > details, etc..) > - company to company relationships (parent-subsidiary, > trading as, doing > business, etc...) > > For more information about the work, please have a look at: > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq > > > I am not sure where the work of our group fits in XNS. If you > see a fit, I > will be glad to discuss with > you for any potential collaborative work. > > Looking forward to hearing from you > > Regards > > Ram Kumar > Chairman > OASIS-CIQ TC > > > ______________________________________________________________ > __________ > The XNS Talk Mailing List is an unmoderated forum > To unsubscribe, send any message to <mailto:xns-talk-off@lists.xns.org> Archives at <http://archive.xns.org/xnstalk/> ________________________________________________________________________ The XNS Talk Mailing List is an unmoderated forum To unsubscribe, send any message to <mailto:xns-talk-off@lists.xns.org> Archives at <http://archive.xns.org/xnstalk/>
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