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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
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-----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
>
>
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