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IV. Description of Standards at Status P Status P means that the Standards Board has endorsed the work required to develop an idea. The subject of the standard is recognised and the first notes on how to proceed are listed. At this stage a full, detailed proposal is not required. There should, however, be the basis of a study to be carried out. A description of how the project should proceed must be included. After this, status P can be granted. The following names and descriptions of standards at Status P are in order of approval by the Standards Board. P5 P10 P17 P19 P25 Electronic communication of mail piece images and related item attributes This work item is intended to lead to a standard covering the exchange of images and related item attributes, linked to the use of ID-tags (such as the ID-tag for letter mail, S18) or other means of item identification. The objective is to enable images to be captured at one point in the postal handling process but processed at another point, using equipment from a different supplier (i.e. the standard will support open interchange). See POC TSB 1998.3–Doc 3h for original work item proposal. Process management and tracking of mail aggregates CEN/TS 14441: Postal services – Mail aggregates – Creation, processing and tracking defines mechanisms for the process management and tracking of mail aggregates. It is intended to be applied to mail which transfers between postal operators with the objective of facilitating improvements in quality of service and process control, thus helping postal operators meet the expectations of their increasingly demanding and sophisticated customers. If there is sufficient interest, the specification can be endorsed by the UPU and published as a UPU standard. Pending a decision on this, interested parties can obtain the CEN specification, though it should be noted that the current (2005) version of this is not fully consistent with some more recent UPU standards. The CEN specification can be obtained through any national standards organisation which is affiliated to CEN. Links to these can be found on www.cen.eu. See POC SB 2000.3–Doc 3b for original work item proposal. Customer-applied item identifiers This covers the development of a standard for the encoding by customers of information, particularly item identifiers, on postal items. Rather than an identifier applied by postal operators strictly for postal purposes (such as the ID-tag), this identifier would be for use by both postal operators and their customers. Much of the work intended under this work item has been completed, and is reflected in S49; work on the related definition of a mail communications reference model remains incomplete. See POC SB 2002.2–Doc 3b for original work item proposal. Claims, Inquiries and Verification Notes This work item covers the development of working draft standards and supporting regulatory proposals covering the electronic exchange of both claims and inquiries (currently exchanged on postal forms CN 08 and CN 18) and verification notes (forms CN 43, CP 78). The part of the work item covering verification notes has now been completed and published as working draft standard M42 eVN – Electronic Verification Notes. Work on claims and inquiries continues. See POC SB 2002.3–Doc 3e for original work item proposal and POC SB 2004.3–Doc 4e for an updated work item description. Document identification and bar coding The document identification and bar coding standard will provide a specification for the allocation of unique identifiers to instances of UPU-specified documents and for the representation of such identifiers in the documents themselves and in other documents and messages referring to them. See POC SB 2005.3–Doc 6 for original work item proposal. © UPU 2014 – All rights reserved 21
P30 P31 P37 P39 P40 P41 P42 Encoding of CN 22 and CN 23 data on forms and on portable storage devices The standard resulting from this work item will specify how the data on a CN 22 or CN 23 customs declaration form can be encoded both on the forms themselves, using a 2-dimensional bar coding symbology, and on portable storage and/or RFID devices, intended to accompany one or more items. See POC SB 2007.4–Doc 4i for original work item proposal. EMAI Universal Identifier for postal items This covers the development of a specification for a universal mail item identifier that can be preprinted by manufacturers of envelopes, addressing labels, postcards and similar products. Its aim will be to provide a technical foundation for a variety of customer and postal applications where knowledge of mail item identifiers could be used for tracking purposes as well as for monitoring quality of service and similar applications. See POC SB 2007.4–Doc 4j for original work item proposal. Standardisation of GIS in postal applications This work item, which is lead by the UPU Addressing Unit, seeks to clarify postal requirements for usage of geographic information system (GIS) technology. It will assess existing standards in this domain in order to determine if they meet requirements and recommend a way forward to enable postal GIS standardization/implementation. See POC C 4 SB 2008.4–Doc 5a for original work item proposal. Invoice and claims EDI message for airlines This work item proposes to develop standard EDI messages for the exchange of invoice and claims data between airlines and postal operators. By using existing data captured in the assignment process (via the CARDIT and RESDIT messages), a new message can be created to electronically populate appropriate files used by airlines to charge postal operators for air carriage services, and files used by postal operators to pay airlines. See POC C 4 SB 2008.4–Doc 5c for original work item proposal. Enhancement of M10 (PRECON V1.1) and M12 (RESCON V1.1) It is proposed to enhance these standards, expand their scope, and produce a new message set supporting receptacle nesting and a new data flow (Transit Advice) to facilitate operations and electronic accounting for closed transit receptacles. The development will be based on a review of the actual business scenarios. See POC C 4 SB 2009.1–Doc 5a for original work item proposal. Open standard interface – Address data file format for OCR/VCS dictionary generation This work item will result in the specification of an open standard file format for the communication, from postal operators to suppliers, of the address data needed to generate online address dictionaries used by postal automation equipment. Adoption of the specification will eliminate the need for conversion between different formats used by different suppliers. See POC C 4 SB 2009.2–Doc 5b for original work item proposal. RFID for tracking of aggregates and receptacle assets This work item will investigate the development of standards to specify the use of RFID devices for the tracking of receptacle assets/containers (i.e. re-usable physical containers with significant asset value, including containers, roller cages and, possibly, trays and bags) and physically constrained mail aggregates (i.e. transport units comprising one or more mail items constrained to form a unit through enclosure in a physical receptacle, an envelope or other wrapper or tying them in a bundle). It also includes the extension of EDI messaging standards to support specification of the identifier of the RFID tag associated with a given aggregate or container. See POC C 4 SB 2010.1–Doc 5d for original work item proposal. 22 © UPU 2014 – All rights reserved
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