Re: [regrep-semantic] Proposed EU address validation service

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Peter,

An address validation service will absolutely require OASIS CAM,
in tandem with the Registry and then driven by the UPU work on
postal address rules, with some OASIS CIQ thrown in too.

The UPU have defined rules for many of the major postal services.
This is non-trivial and heady stuff once you get into mail delivery
details.

Notice that the OAGi is also working on an address format for
BODs as core components.

The UPU is obviously the authoritative source here - and closest
to a solution IMHO - however they require CAM as a processor
engine to actually drive their rules and templates.  I've looked at
Venezulan, Moroccan and UK address details from the UPU
and all this is highly doable.

If we can get some funding to build this it would be a milestone.
As you note - the components and markup is there - what is
lacking is resources to actually deploy.

DW.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter F Brown" <peter@justbrown.net>
To: <regrep-semantic@lists.oasis-open.org>
Cc: "'Farrukh Najmi'" <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 6:29 PM
Subject: RE: [regrep-semantic] Proposed EU address validation service


Hi Farrukh:
One starting point would be to raise the issue at the Semantic
Interoperability workshop in Norway later this month [1]. There will be
representatives from the European Commission's eGovernment Unit there, with
whom I have been in touch in recent days...

Hans Aanesen will be there for the OASIS EPR-Forum, and I thought that David
Webber would come to, although I don't see him as registered. I'm still
waiting for a reply on funding to see whether I take part or not...

I think the key is demonstrating that there are generic, standards-based
technology solutions to the sort of issues that this sort of registry is
raising....

Peter

[1] http://www.brreg.no/workshop/

-----Original Message-----
From: Farrukh Najmi [mailto:Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:36 PM
To: peter@justbrown.net
Subject: Re: [regrep-semantic] Proposed EU address validation service

Hi Peter,

Hope all is well with you.
Thanks for sharing this. How do you suggest we get this work to leverage
our work on ebXML Registry standard?

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Regards,
Farrukh