RE: [tax] FW: [egov] A report comparing Australian Customer Information Standards with the OASIS CIQ Standards

["Ram Kumar" <rkumar@msi.com.au>]

Dear John,

Thanks for this great rappo about CIQ Standards. Appreciated.

Regards,

Ram



> -----Original Message-----
> From: john.glaubitz@vertexinc.com [mailto:john.glaubitz@vertexinc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2003 1:51 AM
> To: H.J.M. van Burg
> Cc: tax@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [tax] FW: [egov] A report comparing Australian Customer
> Information Standards with the OASIS CIQ Standards
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> Harm Jan,
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> I've been an observer to the OASIS CIQ TC during the past year and I
> believe the TaxXML TC would have interest in this document and CIQ
> standards in general.
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> The standards developed by CIQ, which are focused
> specifically on name and
> address information, are very complete and are applicable to names and
> addresses anywhere in the world.  Many development efforts
> have started to
> implement using CIQ and they have begun to integrate themselves with
> several other OASIS efforts including UBL, CAM and potentially ebXML.
> Since name and address information will certainly be
> appropriate to tax,
> TaxXML should likewise look to potentially integrate with CIQ, either
> directly or through UBL and other standards.  Also, since the
> Autralian
> government and potentially others could make use of CIQ standards it
> presents an opportunity for further consistency of goverment related
> information.
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> CIQ could also be a useful model for how to approach
> developing standards
> for TaxXML.  Similar to names and addresses, taxes are likely to be
> incorporated in many other standards.  The CIQ TC did a good
> job staying
> focused on the scope of the information within their charter
> and were very
> clear on what standards they would and would not address.
> They were also
> very active in promoting their work and creating liasons so that the
> standard would be adopted and re-used.
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> This specific document does a very good job of describing in
> accessible
> terms what CIQ standards are, how they work in specific
> examples and how
> they favorably compare to other efforts to standardize the
> same sorts of
> information.  As our work progresses, we may need to be prepared to
> describe our efforts in a similar way.
>
> John
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> [tax] FW: [egov] A report comparing Australian Customer
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> Sorry this was the document.
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> Harm Jan
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> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Ram Kumar [mailto:rkumar@msi.com.au]
> Verzonden: vrijdag 27 juni 2003 3:28
> Aan: ciq@lists.oasis-open.org
> CC: egov@lists.oasis-open.org; tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au
> Onderwerp: [egov] A report comparing Australian Customer Information
> Standards with the OASIS CIQ Standards
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> Recently, the NSW Office of Information Technology of the NSW
> Government,
> Australia
> commissioned me to conduct a comparative study of the
> Australian Standard
> for Client
> Information Interchange and the Australian/New Zealand Standard for
> Geographic
> Information: Urban and Rural Addressing with the OASIS CIQ
> Standards for
> Customer Information.
> The purpose of this study is to assist NSW Government in promoting and
> adopting CIQ standards for
> customer information as the defacto standard for customer information
> interchange as part
> of NSW Government's eGovernment initiative in Australia.
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> The New Zealand Government has already adopted the CIQ
> standards as part of
> its
> e-Government Interoperability Framework. The U.K Government's
> policy is to
> use its own
> standard namely, BS7666 for name and address data exchanges
> within UK, but
> where it needs
> to exchange  internationally, then it will use the standards
> of the CIQ TC.
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> Max Voskob (committee member of CIQ and UDDI TCs) and I did
> the study and
> please find
> enclosed the report of the study. With the approval from the
> NSW Office of
> Information Technology,
> I am placing this report on the CIQ TC web site.
>
> If you have any comments about the document, please e-mail them
> directly to me (rkumar@msi.com.au).
>
> Regards,
>
> Ram Kumar
> Chair, OASIS Customer Information TC
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