Re: Registry concern with specifying common vertical structures

[Philip Goatly <philip.goatly@bolero.net>]

EDIFACT might be a good place to start - at least to see what data is
included and how it is handled

Any comments

Cheers, Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adams, Robert" <robert.adams@intel.com>
To: "'Scott Hinkelman'" <srh@us.ibm.com>; "Philip Goatly"
<philip.goatly@bolero.net>
Cc: <ebxml-regrep@lists.ebxml.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 4:37 PM
Subject: RE: Registry concern with specifying common vertical structures


> Isn't there an ISO standard for postal addresses?  Shouldn't that be the
one
> specified?
>
> -- RA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Hinkelman [mailto:srh@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 7:59 AM
> To: Philip Goatly
> Cc: ebxml-regrep@lists.ebxml.org
> Subject: Re: Registry concern with specifying common vertical structures
>
>
> Exactly. And the HR effort, for example, realizes the differences across
> countries.
>
> I think best to remove these type of structures from ebXML Registry.
>
> Scott Hinkelman, Senior Software Engineer
> XML Industry Enablement
> IBM e-business Standards Strategy
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>
> "Philip Goatly" <philip.goatly@bolero.net> on 03/14/2001 09:39:13 AM
>
> Please respond to "Philip Goatly" <philip.goatly@bolero.net>
>
> To:   Scott Hinkelman/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, <ebxml-regrep@lists.ebxml.org>
> cc:
> Subject:  Re: Registry concern with specifying common vertical structures
>
>
>
> Having looked at the postal address in ebXML I would like to see more
> optionality in it  - and it is SO american.
>
>    We do not use State or Block Number in the UK !!! etc.
>
> Cheers, Phil
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Hinkelman" <srh@us.ibm.com>
> To: <ebxml-regrep@lists.ebxml.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 3:28 PM
> Subject: Registry concern with specifying common vertical structures
>
>
> > All,
> > I am concerned with the ebXML Registry defining common industry
> structures
> > like PostalAddress. I am not convinced that this should be in scope for
> > ebXML Registry.  For example, if your organization is a member of
HR-XML,
> > one look at that effort which has gone into capturing all of the aspects
> of
> > a PostalAddress concludes that for the Human Resource community ebXML's
> > equivalent is not useful. I have no reason to think that the other
> (common
> > ?) vertical elements in the .86 spec would not fall into the same
> > situation.
> >
> > Scott Hinkelman, Senior Software Engineer
> > XML Industry Enablement
> > IBM e-business Standards Strategy
> > 512-823-8097 (TL 793-8097) (Cell: 512-940-0519)
> > srh@us.ibm.com, Fax: 512-838-1074
> >
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