Re: [ebxml-cppa] Party Details

["William J. Kammerer" <wkammerer@novannet.com>]

Dale Moberg agrees with Duane that it would be good if we had an
enumerated list [of PartyId types], with option to extend it. It would
be good if these list values were at least standardized to URIs,
probably URNs. But last time [Dale] checked, there was little agreement
even on how to get an official URN for DUNS or whether it might need to
get some official (read legal) approval to use it.

Dale asks if there are "some candidate values that could help
standardization in this area? ....what [could we] use as enumerated
values?" He wants a list of all commonly used identifier schemes. Dale
further suggests "we might then use an oasis urn prefix to rig up
enumerated values."

All URN prefixes or domains are defined at
http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces.  Dun & Bradstreet still
hasn't requested one since we first discussed this a year ago, and I
wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this to happen at all.

In the meantime, I would be quite satisfied using the OID (Object
Identifier) scheme to indicate PartyId types.  "urn:oid:1.3.60" uniquely
says Dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S.  Use "urn:oid:1.3.60" to qualify the code
081466849, and you instantly know I'm talking about the Microsoft
Corporation.  As another example using the OID URN, an EAN Location Code
would be qualified it with a PartyId type of
"urn:oid:1.3.88".   The OID structure itself is cataloged at
http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid.  I addressed this use of OIDs (for
the PartyId type) in detail within a thread of messages to the ebXML
Transport mailing list back in December 2000 and subsequent months.

William J. Kammerer
Novannet, LLC.