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Subject: Proposed EU address validation service




All:

 

Following my earlier posting on this and comments from the list, I have flagged up a number of points and concerns with the European Commission, notably:

- it seems to be vendor not business driven: it is designed by a company not a "community of interest" (EU public administrations);

- The core specification, OSCI, is an "open specification" to the extent that it is "owned" by the City of Bremen, but its governance structure is not;

- it seems to duplicate open, public specifications that already exist (notably ebXML/UBL);

- it has not been implemented on any other platform other than that provided by the contractor, PSI;

- it does not seem to be interoperable, without custom interfaces;

- it is a centralised rather than a distributed registry model.

 

I have been in contact with the contractors for information about the schemas and architecture, but they have not been forthcoming so far.

 

John Borras, Chair of the eGov TC, is aware of the OSCI project in general, and has had dealings with colleagues in Germany working on it, but was a little alarmed too that the RISER project is being flagged up as an "EU standard", which it is not…

 

David: maybe this could be covered in your presentation in Brønnøysund, as a case study of what to look out for, pitfalls, etc?

 

Peter

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Brown

Head of Information Resources Management

European Parliament

 

I am currently on sabbatical leave, and affiliation is given for information purposes only. Any correspondence with my former service or the Parliament should be addressed to irm@europarl.eu.it

 

Author of "Information Architecture with XML", published by John Wiley & Sons, www.XMLbyStealth.net

 

Speaker on eGovernment at:

XML Summer School 2004, Oxford, UK

 

 


From: David RR Webber [mailto:david@drrw.info]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 1:13 AM
To: peter@justbrown.net; 'ebXML Regrep (ebXML Regrep)'; regrep-semantic@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: Hans Aanesen; Joe Lubenow
Subject: [regrep-semantic] Re: [regrep] Proposed EU address validation service

 

Peter,

 

Sheesh - having posted the note about the use of CAM to validate

postal mailing addresses  - this RISER thing is another whole beast.

 

We need to discuss this offline.  Certainly these is a huge overlap

with the BizID project I initiated in the .COM days.  I believe it is

critical that the lessons of BizID be implemented into RISER.

 

Passport and Liberty begin to look like FisherPrice technology

compared to what RISER might become.  Having the ability to

control and manage RISER using BizID mechanisms is

critical - not only for EU citizens directly - but also for setting

the benchmark and measure for all other downstream systems

that use RISER.   Not least of these is the BCM/EPR project

potentially.

 

BizID is citizen enpowering thru the use of XML.  We can

discuss this in more depth in Norway.

 

Thanks, DW.

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:29 PM

Subject: [regrep] Proposed EU address validation service

 

For info…

<quote source="European Commission">

A project partly funded by the EU’s eTEN programme is currently preparing the introduction of a pan-European address validation service. Called RISER (Registry Information Service on European Residents), the project aims to allow for uniform, online access to the address registries of various European countries.

The objective of the RISER project, which is being conducted by an international consortium under the leadership of German software company PSI, is to create a European registry information service. The service would be an online one-stop shop providing uniform, centralised access to the registries of various European countries. The project is currently at the market validation stage, and a pilot operation between Germany, Austria and Ireland is scheduled to begin as early as this summer.

Built on open standards – such as the emerging XML-based formats for e-government transactions in Germany (Online Services Computer Interface - OSCI) and in particular the data format for citizens registration processes OSCI-XMeld – the service will be supplied with data by the national and local civil registration offices. RISER will be presented as a transactional website, enabling requests to be submitted either on a one-by-one (typed in a form) or mass processing (file transfer) basis, and supporting several means of payment. If market validation is successful and the business plan proves fully adapted to pan-European requirements, the consortium will deploy RISER in Europe by mid-2005.

Verification of address information by accessing civil registries is a popular service offered by the public authorities of most EU Member States. The service, which varies widely between countries, is used by companies as well as public institutions seeking to reduce returns in customer correspondence and in bill delivery. The total number of inquiries to validate citizen address information is currently estimated at 40 million for the German market alone, with half of these requests being made by the private sector.

According to PSI, the new service will meet the needs of international financial service providers, shipping companies and e-commerce businesses operating in the expanding single European market. RISER will provide this target group with a uniform access to an extremely heterogeneous registry environment, which should help reduce the complexity and costs of trans-national operations.

</quote>

Regards,

Peter

Peter Brown

Head of Information Resources Management

European Parliament

 

I am currently on sabbatical leave, and affiliation is given for information purposes only. Any correspondence with my former service or the Parliament should be addressed to irm@europarl.eu.it

 

Author of "Information Architecture with XML", published by John Wiley & Sons, www.XMLbyStealth.net

 

Speaker on eGovernment at:

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