RE: OASIS Customer Address Format XML TC

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

David:

> For some reason OASIS choose to call this the "QIC WG".

Umm... CIQ TC, rather.

But if the TC feels the need it can always rename itself.

</karl>
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Karl F. Best
OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
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karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David RR Webber - XMLGlobal [mailto:Gnosis_@compuserve.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 7:13 PM
> To: Ram Kumar; XML/edi Group
> Cc: 'Karl F. Best'; CIQ TC (E-mail)
> Subject: OASIS Customer Address Format XML TC
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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, 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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> 
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