Re: URISA creation of address standard and OASIS participation

[Ram Kumar <kumar.sydney@gmail.com>]

Hi Mary,

No worries. I will respond to their questions and see how they
can benefit from our work. 

Regards,

Ram

On 6/9/05, Mary McRae <marypmcrae@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ram,
> 
>  I'm hoping that as chair of the CIQ TC you'll take point on this - I
> don't want to inundate these folks with emails and scare them away ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mary
> 
> On 6/8/05, ed.wells@att.net <ed.wells@att.net> wrote:
> > Hello Mr. Kumar, Ms. Mcrae, Mr. Gannon, and Mr. Voskob,
> >
> > Thank you for taking time to contact us and let us know of your work. We do want to take your work into account and to make ours available to you. We share your commitment to open, democratic processes and collaboration.
> >
> > I have conferred with Mr. Steven Johnson, who is more familiar with OASIS than we are. He raised an important question: does the OASIS address standard pertain to street addresses and postal mailing addresses? Or does it pertain to Internet-based addresses such as e-mail addresses and URL's?
> >
> > Our scope concerns street and postal mailing addresses only (for example, 123 Main Street, or PO Box 123), and it excludes addresses that have no geographic location such as Internet-based addresses.
> >
> > If our work overlaps with yours, or with any other OASIS TC, we would welcome communication and collaboration. As a first step, would you provide us the link to your standard, so that we may post it for reference as we begin our work?
> >
> > Thank you, and best regards,
> >
> > Ed Wells
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: Ram Kumar <kumar.sydney@gmail.com>
> > > Hi Martha, Ed and Hilary,
> > >
> > > Thank you for your invitation to OASIS to contribute to the Address
> > > Standard that your organisation is planning to develop.
> > > I am the chair of the OASIS Customer Information Quality Technical
> > > Committee (www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq) that has spent over 5
> > > years in developing an international party name and address XML
> > > standard along with party/customer information and party relationship
> > > standards. Our group was the first to release an international name
> > > and address specification in XML to industry.
> > >
> > > The specifications have received good support from industry and has
> > > been stable for the past 2 years. We are now in the process of
> > > releasing a new version of the above specifications (Version 3.0)
> > > pretty soon. This specification has been simplified considerably in
> > > terms of its desig  to ease implemnetation. Our specifications have
> > > proven to be a super set of all the specifications in industy and that
> > > have been mentioned in the FGDC references. It is unfortunate that our
> > > work is not mentioned in the FGDC reference. The key differentiator
> > > between our specifications and others in this area is that our
> > > specifications have been designed with the following goals and these
> > > goals have been achieved:
> > > - To be application independent (not tied to any specific application
> > > such as postal services or e-commerce)
> > > - To be 100% free for anyone to use it with no IPRs or royalties or
> > > patents attached to it
> > > - To be developed in an open process environment, and
> > > importantly
> > > - To be global, i.e. capabile of handling names and addresses of any country
> > >
> > > We will be more than happy to contribute to your efforts. I will be
> > > happy to represent OASIS and on behalf of my technical committee as a
> > > reviewer and observer.
> > >
> > > Looking forward to hearing from you,
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Ram Kumar
> > > OASIS CIQ TC Chair
> > > Australia
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 6/8/05, Max Voskob <max.voskob@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > > > Martha, Ed, Hilary,
> > > >
> > > > CIQ TC is actively working on a new release of our standards that include xAL
> > > (street address,
> > > > delivery point, named location).
> > > >
> > > > You would be very welcome to join our TC and lend us a bit of your expertise
> > > in the addressing area.
> > > >
> > > > We are also working on XML standards for entities Name (organisation and
> > > individual) and Party (a
> > > > generic term for a collection of information about an organisation or
> > > individual).
> > > >
> > > > To become members of the TC you need to:
> > > >
> > > > 1. be members of OASIS
> > > > 2. send a request to join the TC (see a button at the top of the TC's webpage)
> > > and the chair (Mr Ram
> > > > Kumar) will add you to the roster. This will also put you on our mailing list.
> > > >
> > > > I Cced this email to Ram (if he hasn't replied to you yet).
> > > >
> > > > Please, feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Max
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Mary McRae [mailto:marypmcrae@gmail.com]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, 8 June 2005 5:28 a.m.
> > > > To: ciq@lists.oasis-open.org
> > > > Subject: [ciq] Fwd: FW: URISA doc
> > > >
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > >
> > > >  I'm forwarding this from Patrick Gannon. It's regarding an effort to create a
> > > Street Address
> > > > standard ...
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Mary
> > > >
> > > > Mary P McRae
> > > > Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
> > > > mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> > > > voip: 603.232.9090
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> --
> Mary P McRae
> Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
> mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> voip: 603.232.9090
>