Post on 18-Dec-2015
Universal @ddressing
Stefan Lindholm
Chairman, UPU Telematics Cooperative and the Advanced Electronic Services User Group
@2March 2004
Universal Postal Union at a glance
• UPU, a not-for-profit UN agency for the Global Postal Industry• 190 countries, 700,000 post offices
• The largest physical distribution network in the world.
• In 2002 the Posts distributed..
• a total of 425 billion domestic items.• a total of 6.7 billion international items.
• The UPU is committed to deliver the UN Universal Service.• Keeping pace with customer behaviour, Posts are increasingly
using new technologies to move…
…“beyond the physical mailbox into every household and every business desktop”.
@3March 2004
Posts inherited & developed skills
Mass- and niche market
Every company & householdevery working day
Global Trust
Physical - electronic
Address Competence
@4March 2004
UPU - Bridging the Digital Divide
• By migrating their universal delivery commitment to the online world, postal services can ensure that citizens have better and easier access to internet connectivity and services.
• A growing number of UPU member postal administrations have
intensified their cooperation with the telecommunications sector to develop tele-kiosk and hybrid mail combining electronic transmission and a physical delivery.
• Standards are now developing to support this bridge over the digital divide.
@5March 2004
UPU Universal @ddressing PT (P@U) and POST*Code project
•Origin: Resolution C 87/1999, from the Beijing Congress
•Aims: promote and improve the quality of domestic and international
mail services
•Products: Developing a product range on:
1.-addressing systems: «Standard S-42 »
« Postal Addressing Systems »
2.-postcodes : « Universal POST*CODE®
Database »
@6March 2004
POST*Code: Standard S-42
Goals• prepare a dictionary of address types and elements
• define address structures (country by country) and templates in natural language and XML.
Implementation• EDIFACT and XML message
@7March 2004
POST*Code: Standard S42
Addressee Specification
Delivery Point Specification
Mailee Specification
Mail Recipient Despatching Information
Individual Identification
Addressee Role Descriptor
Organisation Identification or
Individual Identification
Organisation Identification
or
Mailee Role Descriptor
Door Floor Wing
Supplementary Despatch Data
Delivery Point Location
Function
Legal Status
Organisation Name
Organisational Unit
Given Name Surname
Name Qualifier
Qualification
Form of Address
Thoroughfare
Surname Root
Surname Prefix
Thoroughfare Name
Thoroughfare Type
Thoroughfare Qualifier
Delivery Point Access Data
Street No or Plot
Extension Designation
Door
Floor
Wing
Supplementary DP Data
Building/Cons Type
Building/ Construction
Postcode
Defining Authority
Country
Postcode
Defining Authority
Locality
Town
Region
District
Delivery Ser- Vice Qualifier
Locality
Town
Region
District
Postal Service Delivery Point Identifier
Delivery Service Type
Delivery Service Indicator
Postal Service Delivery Point Identifier
Delivery Service Type
Delivery Service Indicator
Proximate Town
Thoroughfare
Thoroughfare Name
Thoroughfare Type
Secondary
Secondary
Secondary
Sector Type Sector Indicator
Postal Address Components : Dictionary
@8March 2004
POST*Code: Standard S42, natural language
Address template in Natural Language Notation, example: United States of America[\ (12.33 supplementary despatch data) {L} \)< [\ [10.04 addressee role descriptor {precedence1}] [10.05 form of address] [10.06/1 given name part 1] [10.06/2 given name part 2] [10.06/3 given name part 3] [10.08 surname] [10.09 name qualifier] [10.10 qualification] {L} \][\ [10.04 addressee role descriptor {precedence2}] (10.03 function) {L} \] [\ [11.11 mailee role descriptor {precedence1}] [11.05 form of address] [11.06/1 given name part 1] [11.06/2 given name part 2] [11.06/3 given name part 3] [11.08 surname] [11.09 name qualifier] [11.10 qualification] {L} \][\ [11.11 mailee role descriptor {precedence2}] (11.03 function) {L} \][\ [11.11 mailee role descriptor {precedence3}] (11.02/2 succeeding organisational unit) {L} \][\ [11.11 mailee role descriptor {precedence4}] (11.00/2 succeeding organisation name) [11.01/2 succeeding organisation legal status] {L} \] >< [\ (10.00 organisation name) [10.01 organisation legal status] {L} \][\ [10.04 addressee role descriptor] (10.02 organisational unit) {L} \] >[\ (13.17 district) {L} \]<(\ (14.21 thoroughfare name) [13.19 delivery service type] [13.20 delivery service indicator] {L} \)><(\ (13.19 delivery service type) (13.20 delivery service indicator) {L} \)><(\ (14.24 street number or plot) [14.23/1 preceding thoroughfare qualifier] (14.21 thoroughfare name) [14.22 thoroughfare type] [14.23/2 succeeding thoroughfare qualifier] [14.31/1 secondary unit type] [14.31/2 secondary unit identifier] {L} \)> (\ (13.16 town) (13.15 region) (13.13/1 primary postcode) [13.13/2 secondary postcode] {L} \)[\ (13.14 country) {L} \]
@9March 2004
POST*Code: Standard S42 by XML
• <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>• <!--• This is the PATDL USPS template representing the street
address, postal box, and rural route formats using UPU codes and rendition instructions. It has been validated using the Postal Address Template description Language (PATDL) v2.2 W3C schema. The file name is straddr.xml
• -->• <!DOCTYPE patdl.xml SYSTEM "patdl.dtd">• <patdl22.xml xmlns:xsi=
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”• xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=“PATDLv2.2.2.xsd”>• <!-- -->• <identifier>• <referenceKey>UPU-US</referenceKey>• <elementIdentifier>• <type>code</type>• <prefix>U</prefix>• <system>UPU</system>• <version>s42-3</version>• <source>POST*Code</source>• </elementIdentifier>• …..• <contentDefinition>• <templateNumber>• <countryCode>US</countryCode>• <userId>USPS</userId>• <templateType>ADR</templateType>• <templateSeqNum>001</templateSeqNum>• </templateNumber>• ….
• <lineData>• <lineName>lastline</lineName>• <lineNumber>008</lineNumber>• <linePriority>002</linePriority>• <elementData>• <elementId>E10.018</elementId>• <elementDesc>city.name</elementDesc>• <fldJustify>L</fldJustify>• <posStart>001</posStart>• <posLength>***</posLength>• </elementData>• <elementData>• <elementId>E10.020</elementId>• <elementDesc>state.postal.abbreviation</elementDesc>• <fldJustify>L</fldJustify>• <posStart>***</posStart>• <posLength>***</posLength>• </elementData> • <elementData>• <elementId>E10.025</elementId>• <elementDesc>zip.code</elementDesc>• <fldJustify>L</fldJustify>• <posStart>***</posStart>• <posLength>***</posLength>• </elementData>• …• </contentDefinition>
@10March 2004
POST*Code: Standard S42
Address example: United States of America
Formatted address
CECIL BOB DEMILLE
PRODUCER
2800 N LOS FELICES CIR E UNIT C100
PALM SPRINGS CA 92260-3002
USA
Address elements
10.06/1 CECIL10.06/2 BOB10.08 DEMILLE10.03 PRODUCER14.24 280014.23/1 N14.21 LOS FELICES14.22 CIR14.23/2 E14.31/1 UNIT14.31/2 C10013.16 PALM SPRINGS13.15 CA13.13/1 9226013.13/2 300213.14 USA
@11March 2004
General description:
• flat files, text/ASCII, raw data, TABulator separator, • quarterly updates (included),• all postcodes in the uniform POST*CODE® format
Universal POST*CODE® database
A worldwide postcode database to street level for more than 190 countries when available.
@12March 2004
The physical address is key to…
• Legal address, tax, social sec, children, work..• Utilities, electricity, gas, cable, petrol…• telecom…• Credit cards• Bank• Drivers licence• eID certificate (electronic identification)• Letter and parcel address• eGovernment
@13March 2004
Privacy issues
• Posts only, have delivery address directory
• Posts provide UN - Universal Services “letter secrecy”
• The individual only, allow for listing of address
• Telephone directory – listed / not listed
• .Post will provide privacy protection
@14March 2004
@post – Aliases by the protected “address”
Unique secret serial numberUnique secret serial number
Mail collect Mail forward
ePMElectronic ID
Change address on-line
@15March 2004
@post - Addresses
The same address as used today!The same address as used today!
Anna.Hansson.storg34.19397-1234@swe.postAnna.Hansson.storg34.19397-1234@swe.post
Anna HanssonAnna HanssonStorgatan 34Storgatan 34S-193 97 BroS-193 97 BroSwedenSweden
Anna HanssonAnna HanssonStorgatan 34Storgatan 34
19397-1234 Bro19397-1234 BroSwedenSweden
@17March 2004
The .post + S-42 standard in reality..
• Use of existing address infrastructure investments• Electronic PostBox svcs’ migrating to .post domains• Geographical eMessaging – rural, local & global• Demographical eMessaging - rural, local & global• Posts sort by physical or electronic address• Electronic advise of physical delivery• Business system integration• Etc…
Migration – will allow people to manage their comm’s!!
@18March 2004
Standard S-43, ePM, Electr. PostMark
The UPU eDocument standard for electronic signatures and privacy protection.
@19March 2004
UPU electronic PostMark, ePM
ePM is the UPU PKI based eSignature service with legal ramifications, built on…
- A UPU global PKI policy by UPU Congress 1999- Posts strengths for In-Person-Proofing (IPP)- Imbedded Signer sw by leading PC sw suppliers- Transparency of electronic & physical Signatures- Signers and Recipients see what they do/get (WYSIWIG)
@20March 2004
EPM – Electronic PostMark, UPU S-43
• Electronic PostMark standard
“Interface and functionality standard”• UPU S43 – approval Nov 2003 UPU Standards Board• CEN TC331 – under review for approval 2004
• OASIS DSS – to be approved Q2 2004
• Applications Established by Us, Pt, Be, Ca, Fr• Via Microsoft and Adobe• Documents• Forms• Applications• Any Web/Internet “paper”
@21March 2004
Non-repudiation for all forms of communication.
• For any document, form or “piece of electronic paper” – non-repudiation is applied in the form of a “stamp” that also seals the document
• Using Microsoft/Adobe applications, the EPM stamp is part of the software
• Once applied, the item is sealed as if it were in the mail – it cannot be tampered or corrected without trace
@23March 2004
@post - Aliases
Unique secret serial numberUnique secret serial number
Mail collect Mail forward
ePMElectronic ID
Change address on-line
@24March 2004
Further information
• Electronic PostMark : S-43, please visit:http://www.globalepost.com/interspec.htm
• POST*code standard : S-42, please visit: http://www.upu.int/post_code/en/addressing_formats.html
• POST*CODE® database: http://www.upu.int/publications/en/post_code_database.shtml
@25March 2004
UPU – position for the future
• Posts are the “the timeless societal trust-hubs for trade & communication” in LDCs as well as DCs.
• Posts traditionally deliver tools for worldwide physical…• Communication• Distribution• Payments
• Now, standards are available to migrate the physical and
the electronics eg. Post*Code and Electronic PostMark
with a global outlook and strong privacy protection
“.POST” sTLD will advance these values and further standard developments in a sponsored environment
for all”
= Tools for “Trade & Communication”