FW: Global and application independent "Name and Address XML Specification" from OASIS

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Ram Kumar 
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 12:47 PM
To: 'Stant Jelto'
Subject: RE: Global and application independent "Name and Address XML Specification" from OASIS
Importance: High

Hi Stant,

If you can recollect, we communicated about a year ago.
Here at OASIS Customer Information Technical Committee, we are working on the release of the next version (Version 3.0) of xAL (extensible Address Language). xAL V2.0 (released in July 2002) handles addresses of almost every country in greater detail and is an application independent language that can be used/extended for use in various applications such as CRM, Customer recognition, customer registration, customer information systems, data quality management, postal services, etc.

As part of V3.0 release, we intend to use all the international address examples provided by the UPU web site http://www.upu.org/post_code/en/postal_addressing_systems_member_countries.shtml
to demostrate the power of xAL. 

We will righly acknowledge UPU in all our documents. 

We therefore, seek your approval to use your address examples. 

If there are any issues with this, please let us know.

Looking forward to hearing from you

Thank you

Regards,

Ram Kumar
Founding Chair,
OASIS CIQ TC
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stant Jelto [mailto:jelto.stant@upu.int]
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 7:08 PM
> To: Ram Kumar; Stant Jelto
> Cc: CH (Douane) -Vuilleumier, François; clivio@iso.org; Gray Steve; 
> Betremieux Christine; rberwanger@bTrade.com; diskray@w150.aone.net.au; 
> sue.probert@dial.pipex.com; michael.doran@cern.ch; 
> Jean-Luc@Champion.Name; jean-luc.delcourt@cec.eu.int; 
> Paul-Herve.Theunissen@cec.eu.int; heinz.engi@ezv.admin.ch; 
> josef.schoebi@ezv.admin.ch; bernhard.spahr@ezv.admin.ch; 
> samuel.kobel@ezv.admin.ch; jon.bosak@sun.com; mcrawfor@lmi.org
> Subject: RE: Global "Name and Address XML Standard" for OASIS
> 
> Dear Mr. Kumar,
> 
> Thank you for your message. I believe that you provide lots of useful 
> and important information for our Addressing project (the so-called 
> POST*Code group). There seems to be a clear need to coordinate this as 
> best as we can.
> 
> I will pass your message on to the group, and hope to be able to 
> provide you with a reaction from their part soon.
> 
> Thanks once more, and hopefully I'll be back with more info in the 
> near future.
> 
> Jelto Stant
> Manager, Standards Development & Support Universal Postal Union
> 
> Tel: +41 31 3503 244
> Fax: +41 31 3503 110
> Internet: www.upu.int
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ram Kumar [mailto:rkumar@msi.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 2:11 AM
> To: jelto.stant@upu.int
> Cc: fvuille@attglobal.net; clivio@iso.org; steve.gray@upu.int; 
> christine.betremieux@upu.int; rberwanger@bTrade.com; 
> diskray@w150.aone.net.au; sue.probert@dial.pipex.com; 
> michael.doran@cern.ch; Jean-Luc@Champion.Name; 
> jean-luc.delcourt@cec.eu.int; Paul-Herve.Theunissen@cec.eu.int; 
> heinz.engi@ezv.admin.ch; josef.schoebi@ezv.admin.ch; 
> bernhard.spahr@ezv.admin.ch; samuel.kobel@ezv.admin.ch; 
> jon.bosak@sun.com; mcrawfor@lmi.org
> Subject: Global "Name and Address XML Standard" for OASIS
> Importance: High
> 
> Hi,
> 
> My name is Ram Kumar and I am the founding Chairman of Customer 
> Information Technical Committee of OASIS. We spent over 3 years 
> developing a global name and address standard in XML and we have 
> released the standard that is widely used around the world for various 
> name and address applications.
> The standards
> are:
> extensible Name Language (xNL), and
> extensible Address Language (xAL).
> 
> Details of these standards are in:
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/ciq.html
> 
> A customer could be a person or an organisation. An organisation can 
> be private, public, not-for-profit, association, school, university, 
> group, etc.
> 
> These standards can be used as a base representation to support any 
> name and address application such as postal services. It has been 
> proven and widely tested to support
> 240+ country names and addresses at an abstract to a detailed
> level for various applications such as name and address parsing to 
> name and address validation and correction. Sooner a Java library will 
> be released that will enable users to take this Java APIs that process 
> these standards.
> 
> Couple of years ago when CEN (WG331) was at a proposal stage to 
> develop an XML name and address standard under the chairmanship of 
> Mr.Holger Wandt, my committee took the proposal and showed how these 
> standards are a superset of what was being proposed. We requested the 
> group to take these base standards and extend it to meet their 
> specific requirement. Though there was agreement to our 
> recommendation, they decided to develop their own.
> 
> We as a committee are very keen to work with any group and extend our 
> standards to accommodate any requirements.
> 
> Our committee is also in liaison with UBL who have taken our address 
> standard as part of their core library. Other OASIS committees such as 
> Tax, eGovernment and Election and Voting services are keen on our 
> standards. The UK Government and the New Zealand Government have 
> already adopted our standards.
> The NSW Government of Australia is also close to taking our standards.
> 
> All we are requesting here is to give serious consideration to these 
> standards before developing another XML standard for name and address 
> representation. We are willing to cooperate with any standard 
> committee or bodies.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Ram
> Chair, OASIS CIQ TC
> 
> Ram Kumar
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