RE: OASIS Customer Address Format XML TC

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

David

> 
> 
> For some reason OASIS choose to call this the "QIC WG".
> 
> What the heck is that?  A good question!  I think a large
> number of people have experience with dealing with
> addressing information in systems across a broad
> sector of business applications.
> 
> CUSTOMER ADDRESS WG - that is much simpler to grasp.

It is more than just Customer address as we also have a standard
called xCIL that deals with customer information other than
name and address. If we want to change the name of the working
group that makes better sense, we will do it. Something like,
CUSTOMER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (just as an example).
> 
> Yeah - some companies have made a living out of niche
> "duplicate checking and address cleansing" algorithms.
> But - a large part of this is NOT rocket science - matching
> on phone, ZIP, customer #, and so forth.

agreed.

> 
> Also the Address formats that Ram has developed include
> a tremendous amount of excellent and considered thought.
> 
> Once people realize what a gold mine this stuff is...
> 
> Also - it looks intimidating - but is not - since Ram has 
> carefully allowed for optional everything - so a plain
> dumb US postal address is easily done - while if you
> are sending a birthday card to Papua New Guinea, all
> the extras you need there are covered too.
> 
> We need a chunk of good old fashioned "users" to 
> come in and start implementing Ram's drafts in fielded
> business app's that are:
> 
> a) probably globally focused in addresses
> 
> b) have an ugly solution right now - and want something
>      better.

Agreed. The standard that we have developed I am sure,
covers almost all applications that uses customer data and
in particular, customer name and address. The beauty is
that it handles "Global" name and address data.
 
> 
> I'm sending this to the XML/edi Group - since I suspect
> many members will indeed be very interested in going
> over to http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/
> 
> and participating with us, whether or not they are OASIS
> members - jsut precludes them from voting - but not
> helping and commenting.

Thanks David. Appreciated. 

Please feel free to give suggestions/comments/ideas, etc.

Regards

Ram
> 
> Thanks, DW.
> ====================================================
> 
> Message text written by Ram Kumar
> >
> As I have told you before, the problem with our area (CIQ) is 
> that it is
> very
> unique and it is not easy to find expertise in it. Unless 
> some well known
> companies in the area of customer information such as AXCIOM, VALITY,
> TRILLIUM, HARTE HANKS, ID-CENTRIC, FIRST LOGIC etc. and CRM
> companies join OASIS, it is always going to be hard to find 
> members to this
> TC.
> 
> If you have any suggestions on how we can find more people,
> that will be great. I am doing my best by publishing articles in
> journals regarding CIQ and am asking for more participants. I am
> also doing this by presenting in conferences as well. The 
> other thing I
> have been doing is trying to set up some collaborative projects
> with other groups. I do not know what else I can do unless OASIS
> comes up with some other alternatives.
> 
> I also need help from the CIQ TC members to find more TC members.
> There has been some promises, but nothing has been concrete so far.
> My organisation is 100% behind this effort and infact, will become a
> corporate sponsor of OASIS this term. Though this might not appear to
> be a big deal, but it is a big deal for a small Australian 
> company like
> ours. This only shows our committment to OASIS. They have now
> allocated 30% of my time to this standards work.
> 
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