FW: [regrep] Proposed EU address validation service

A nice example of why contacts should be a
separate data structure with it’s own key and identifiers and only linked by
association to businessEntities.  

 

Steve Capell

Red Wahoo Pty Ltd

+61 410 437854

 

From: Peter F Brown
[mailto:] 

Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2004 7:29
AM

To: 'ebXML Regrep (ebXML Regrep)';


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>

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Peter

 

  
  
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