FW: OASIS Customer Address Format XML TC

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Ensign, Chet (LNG-MBC) [mailto:Chet.Ensign@lexisnexis.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2001 3:03 AM
To: 'Ram Kumar'
Subject: RE: OASIS Customer Address Format XML TC


Hi Ram,

I'm talking with staff here about how we could get involved. Rejoining OASIS
wouldn't be a bad idea & I'm looking to drum up support for that. Meanwhile,
we have a team in a couple of areas of the company doing development on
person/customer XML markup & related tools. They could certainly add to the
discussions & possibly do some real world testing as well.

I'll let you know how this progresses. It certainly is an important area for
standards.

Best regards,

/chet

Chet Ensign
Senior Director, Data & Systems Architecture

Chet.ensign@lexisnexis.com
Toll free: 800-252-9257, Ext. 2466
Direct: 973-820-2466
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LexisNexis





-----Original Message-----
From: Ram Kumar [mailto:rkumar@msi.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 7:01 PM
To: 'Ensign, Chet (LNG-MBC)'
Subject: RE: OASIS Customer Address Format XML TC


Hi

Many thanks for your interest.

How do you want to contribute?. It is easier if your company is a member of
OASIS.
Members who directly sit on the WG must be members of OASIS (individual
member
or organisation member). Please let me know whether this is possible. If
not, how
do you think you can contribute indirectly without being a member of OASIS?

Looking forward to hearing from you

Regards

Ram
Chairman
OASIS CIQ TC WG

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ensign, Chet (LNG-MBC) [mailto:Chet.Ensign@lexisnexis.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:33 AM
> To: 'David RR Webber - XMLGlobal'; Ram Kumar; XML/edi Group
> Cc: 'Karl F. Best'; CIQ TC (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: OASIS Customer Address Format XML TC
>
>
> LexisNexis would be very interested in helping out with this WG.
>
> -----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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