UPU SB 991126 - CEN/TC 331 Report

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UPU SB 991126 - CEN/TC 331 Report

• 1 - Quality Measurement
• 2 - Hybrid Mail
• 3 - Automatic Identification Addresses
• 4 - Trays
• 5 - Letter Boxes
• Terminology Task Force

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Working Group 3

• Addresses
• Address Block Locators
• Aggregates
• Customer Bar Coding
• Digital Postage Marks
• Facing Identification Marks
• Id-Tags

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Addresses

• Optical Characteristics for Processing Letters
• pink paper some time ago
• now in Enquiry stage - deadline 2000/01/01
• comments must be via national standards institute
• Address Components
• pink paper in preparation
• delayed to coordinate with WG2 IPC remarks
• Future plans
• OCR Human Readable Representation (printing)
• Electronic Exchange Digital Representation
• Validation of Postal Address Data
• Extraction of Address Components from Printed
  Addresses

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CEN/TC 331/WG 2 - Hybrid Mail

• Concentrating on Customer / Operator Interface
• Document Type Definitions standard
• Pink Paper just released
• Document reference CEN/TC 331/N205
• comment deadline 2000/02/01

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Address Block Locators

• Optional mechanisms for assisting in address
  location
• concentric squares
• defined character patterns
• 1-d Bar-Code (Code 128 and 4-state)
• 2-d Symbol, based on S28
• information carrying ABLs to use FACT Data
  Identifier data to confirm function and
  indicate relative location of address
• Draft in preparation pink paper for comment
  expected early in 2000

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Aggregates

• Container Identification Attributes
• Pink paper issued against IPC advice
• Significant negative comment
• Comments to be reviewed in December
• Substantial re-working expected
• Aggregate Identification Attributes
• Early draft circulated by UPU to SB
• Significant negative comment
• Placed on hold until Containers dealt with
• Substantial re-work expected
• Aggregate Forming and Unforming
• May be too difficult - address as a User Guide

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Customer Bar Coding

• New sub-group to look at feasibility of a
  standard
• Scope
• Identifiers
• Target (Delivery) Codes
• Other Data
• Questionnaire in preparation
• will go to all CEN Posts, plus
• CA, BR, JP, SG, TH, US

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Digital Postage Marks

• Digital Postage Marks Applications, Security
  Design
• developed by joint CEN/UPU group
• drafted as a UPU standard if SB adopt it, CEN
  will endorse if not, CEN will issue as a CEN
  standard
• just agreed to release for comment under Pink
  Paper procedure
• will be distributed, also to SB, for comment in 2
  - 3 weeks
• comment deadline 2000/03/01 or 03/15
• DPM Print Quality
• new work item
• draft under development
• probably based on statistical measurement of
  first read rate and use made of error correction
  capability

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Digital Postage Marks Applications, Security
Design

• Outlines an approach
• Defines issues to be addressed
• Provides guidelines on those issues
• (only 23 / 150 pages normative)
• Consistent with S28 / S25
• Proposes ETSI-like approach to IPR
• (web-searchable database of IPR claims)
• ETSI European Telecommunications Standards
  Institute

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Facing Identification Marks

• Pink Paper procedure just closed
• Comments mostly positive, but some proposals for
  radical review
• DK, NL prefer vertical bars
• NL proposes code revision, with start stop bars
• NL questions value of code for postcards
• NL questions value of OCR printing of FIM code,
  particularly on items with standardised code
  value
• Review of comments end January

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Id-Tags

• S18, S19
• impatience with slow progress
• consistent opposition from NL
• strong interest in review of 21 October and
  follow-up
• strong supplier interest in version for flats
• Image Attribute Transmission
• interest addressed through open participation in
  UPU group
• impatience with slow progress

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Issues

• SB Recognition by CEN
• Coordination of Comments
• e.g. FI comments on FIM Pink Paper
• Tracking of / Participation in
• DPM Print Quality
• Customer Bar-Coding
• Hybrid Mail