1、raising standards worldwideNO COPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAWBSI Standards PublicationDD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010Postal services ID-tagging ofletter mail itemsPart 1: ID-tag structure, message and binaryLicensed Copy: Wang Bin, ISO/EXCHANGE CHINA STANDARDS, 09/05/2011
2、06:58, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010 DRAFT FOR DEVELOPMENTNational forewordThis Draft for Development is the UK implementation of CEN/TS15844-1:2010.This publication is not to be regarded as a British Standard.It is being issued in the Draft for Development series of publicationsa
3、nd is of a provisional nature. It should be applied on thisprovisional basis, so that information and experience of its practicalapplication can be obtained.Comments arising from the use of this Draft for Developmentare requested so that UK experience can be reported to theinternational organization
4、 responsible for its conversion toan international standard. A review of this publication willbe initiated not later than 3 years after its publication by theinternational organization so that a decision can be taken on itsstatus. Notification of the start of the review period will be made inan anno
5、uncement in the appropriate issue of Update Standards.According to the replies received by the end of the review period,the responsible BSI Committee will decide whether to support theconversion into an international Standard, to extend the life of theTechnical Specification or to withdraw it. Comme
6、nts should be sentto the Secretary of the responsible BSI Technical Committee at BritishStandards House, 389 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4AL.The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to TechnicalCommittee SVS/4, Postal services.A list of organizations represented on this committee can
7、beobtained on request to its secretary.This publication does not purport to include all the necessaryprovisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correctapplication. BSI 2011ISBN 978 0 580 63256 3ICS 03.240Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity fromlegal obligations.Thi
8、s Draft for Development was published under the authority ofthe Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 January 2011.Amendments issued since publicationDate Text affectedLicensed Copy: Wang Bin, ISO/EXCHANGE CHINA STANDARDS, 09/05/2011 06:58, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010TEC
9、HNICAL SPECIFICATION SPCIFICATION TECHNIQUE TECHNISCHE SPEZIFIKATION CEN/TS 15844-1 December 2010 ICS 03.240 English Version Postal services - ID-tagging of letter mail items - Part 1: ID-tag structure, message and binary Traitement automatis des envois postaux - Chronomarquage des envois postaux -
10、Partie 1: Structure de la chronomarque, reprsentations smantique et binairePostalische Dienstleistungen - ID-Kennzeichnung von Briefsendungen - Teil 1: Struktur, Nachricht und Binrdarstellung von ID-Kennzeichen This Technical Specification (CEN/TS) was approved by CEN on 1 December 2008 for provisio
11、nal application. The period of validity of this CEN/TS is limited initially to three years. After two years the members of CEN will be requested to submit their comments, particularly on the question whether the CEN/TS can be converted into a European Standard. CEN members are required to announce t
12、he existence of this CEN/TS in the same way as for an EN and to make the CEN/TS available promptly at national level in an appropriate form. It is permissible to keep conflicting national standards in force (in parallel to the CEN/TS) until the final decision about the possible conversion of the CEN
13、/TS into an EN is reached. CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
14、Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION COMIT EUROPEN DE NORMALISATION EUROPISCHES KOMITEE FR NORMUNG Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels 2010 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reser
15、ved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. CEN/TS 15844-1:2010: ELicensed Copy: Wang Bin, ISO/EXCHANGE CHINA STANDARDS, 09/05/2011 06:58, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010CEN/TS 15844-1:2010 (E) 2 Contents Page Foreword 3Introduction .41 Scope 62 Normative references 73 Terms an
16、d definitions .74 Symbols and abbreviations . 105 Definition of an S18 ID-tag . 106 Data construct type 117 Usage of ID-tags 118 Logical structure . 129 Value Range 1410 Representation of S18 ID-tags in messages 1611 Binary representation of S18 ID-tags 1612 Representation of S18 ID-tags on items .
17、1813 Usage constraints . 1913.1 Allocation of domain codes . 1913.2 Publication of issuer and domain codes 1913.3 Accuracy of time and date information in the ID-tag 2013.4 Allocation and application of ID-tags to items 2013.5 Read before allocation check 2113.6 Re-used envelopes . 2113.7 Read after
18、 write check 2213.8 Referencing of ID-tagged items . 2214 Reading and validation of ID-tags on items . 23Bibliography . 24Licensed Copy: Wang Bin, ISO/EXCHANGE CHINA STANDARDS, 09/05/2011 06:58, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010CEN/TS 15844-1:2010 (E) 3 Foreword This document (CEN/TS
19、15844-1:2010) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 331 “Postal services”, the secretariat of which is held by NEN. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN and/or CENELEC shall not be held responsible for ide
20、ntifying any or all such patent rights. NOTE This document has been prepared by experts coming from CEN/TC 331 and UPU, under the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding between the UPU and CEN. This document (CEN/TS 15844-1), is the CEN equivalent of UPU 1)standard S18a-8. It may be amended on
21、ly after prior consultation, between CEN/TC 331 and the UPU Standards Board, in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding between CEN and the UPU. The UPUs contribution to the document was made, by the UPU Standards Board 2)and its sub-groups, in accordance with the rules given in Part V of th
22、e “General information on UPU standards“. This document forms Part 1 of a multi-part CEN/TS 15844, Postal services ID-tagging of letter mail items. It provides the definition of ID-tags and specifies their general construction and representation for electronic data interchange purposes. Their repres
23、entation on items is covered by Parts 2 to 5, which define a number of alternative printed representations. The specification has been extensively tested and is in operational use: the BNB-62 encoding described in CEN/TS 15844-3 has been used for many years by An Post (Ireland), Canada Post and USPS
24、, whilst the more recently specified BNB-78 encoding described in Part 2 has been operationally implemented by Australia Post, Correios de Portugal, Correos y Telgrafos (Spain), Guernsey Post, Isle of Man Post, Singapore Post and Swiss Post. The 4-state encoding specification, defined in Parts 4 for
25、 flats and 5 for small letters, has been implemented by Belgian Post, Correos (Spain), Swiss Post and USPS for flats and by Belgian Post for small letters. According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to announce this Te
26、chnical Specification: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerla
27、nd and the United Kingdom. 1)The Universal Postal Union (UPU) is the specialized institution of the United Nations that regulates the universal postal service. The postal services of its 189 member countries form the largest physical distribution network in the world. Some 5 million postal employees
28、 working in over 660 000 post offices all over the world handle an annual total of 425 billion letters-post items in the domestic service and almost 6,7 billion in the international service. Some 4,5 billion parcels are sent by post annually. Keeping pace with the changing communications market, pos
29、ts are increasingly using new communication and information technologies to move beyond what is traditionally regarded as their core postal business. They are meeting higher customer expectations with an expanded range of products and value-added services.2)The UPUs Standards Board develops and main
30、tains a growing number of standards to improve the exchange of postal-related information between posts, and promotes the compatibility of UPU and international postal initiatives. It works closely with posts, customers, suppliers and other partners, including various international organizations. Th
31、e Standards Board ensures that coherent standards are developed in areas such as electronic data interchange (EDI), mail encoding, postal forms and meters. UPU standards are published in accordance with the rules given in Part VII of the General information on UPU standards, which may be freely down
32、loaded from the UPU world-wide web site (www.upu.int).Licensed Copy: Wang Bin, ISO/EXCHANGE CHINA STANDARDS, 09/05/2011 06:58, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010CEN/TS 15844-1:2010 (E) 4 Introduction Many individual postal administrations have used some form of domestic ID-tagging for
33、the support of video-coding applications for a number of years. Typically, however, domestic ID-tags: are unique only within the system of an individual issuer (or even only within a single postal processing facility); are applied to only a relatively small subset of items with specific characterist
34、ics, e.g. items with addresses which cannot be interpreted by OCR means; are encoded on items using a non-standardised symbology and in a non-standardised location. These characteristics limit the utility of domestic ID-tags, preventing their use for a wide range of potential applications and, in pa
35、rticular, preventing their use as an effective support for the exchange of information between organisations about mail items. The application of a domestic ID-tag by one organisation could also interfere with the processing of the item concerned by another, resulting either in the need for over-lab
36、elling or for manual processing of the item. For example, if the origin post prints its domestic ID-tag in the location used by the delivery post, the latter will be unable to apply its (different) domestic ID-tag or, if it does, will almost certainly not be able to read the result. The impact of th
37、is issue has historically been limited both by the limited number of items to which a domestic ID-tag is applied and by an agreement between An Post, Canada Post and USPS (three postal administrations which make heavy use of domestic ID-tags) to base their domestic ID-tags on a common specification
38、3). It has also been limited by the fact that some postal administrations have not yet automated cross-border mail processing. However, increasing levels of automation and the use of ID-tagging by more and more Posts, for a wider range of applications and on an increasing proportion of items, would,
39、 in the absence of standardisation, lead to a marked increase in its impact and in a probable longer term deterioration in the quality of service offered to inter-administration mail. CEN/TS 15844-1 is intended to address these limitations. It comprises a main Part 1 (this document), together with f
40、our subsidiary parts (Part 2, 3, 4 and 5), each of which defines a specific encoding for the printing of ID-tags on items. This part, Part 1 of CEN/TS 15844, is arranged under ten main headings: Definition of an S18 ID-tag: provides a precise definition of an S18 ID-tag; Data construct type: specifi
41、es the relationship of this standard to UPU standard S25 4, together with the ID-tag data construct type; Usage of ID-tags: provides examples of the use of ID-tags; Logical structure: describes the logical structure and information content of an S18 ID-tag. These are defined separately from the phys
42、ical and electronic representations so that alternative physical representations can be defined in the future; Value Range: defines limitations on the values of data elements used in the logical structure definition and describes the procedure for allocation and publication of domain codes; 3) Note
43、that the common An Post, Canada Post and USPS specification corresponds with one of the two BNB bar code representations of ID-tags which are defined in this standard. Licensed Copy: Wang Bin, ISO/EXCHANGE CHINA STANDARDS, 09/05/2011 06:58, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010CEN/TS 1584
44、4-1:2010 (E) 5 NOTE Value limitations fall into two classes general limitations, which apply to all ID-tags, and limitations which are specific to individual representations of ID-tags in the form of bar codes. Only the former are treated here; the latter are treated in the relevant encoding specifi
45、cation. Representation of S18 ID-tags in messages: defines the format and structure of the ID-tag when incorporated into EDI messages or files; Binary representation of S18 ID-tags: defines a recommended format and structure for a binary representation of the ID-tag for use in computer files; Repres
46、entation of S18 ID-tags on items: to allow the association of computer data with a physical item, the ID-tag is encoded on the item itself. This clause introduces the supported encoding symbologies and provides reference to the relevant specifications, covered in separate parts of the standard; Usag
47、e constraints: defines requirements to be met during and restrictions on the allocation of ID-tags, their application to items and their subsequent use; Reading and validation of ID-tags on items: describes the procedures to be followed for the reading of ID-tags and the use to be made of the result
48、ing information. Licensed Copy: Wang Bin, ISO/EXCHANGE CHINA STANDARDS, 09/05/2011 06:58, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010CEN/TS 15844-1:2010 (E) 6 1 Scope This Technical Specification 4)defines the information content, structure and possible printed representations of the S18 ID-tag
49、 5). This is an identifier for individual mail items which: is globally unique; can be applied to any item which is not already ID-tagged by any postal administration (or other issuer) which previously processed the item; NOTE 1 The S18 ID-tag provides a standard means of ID-tagging which can be applied on a world-wide basis, allowing inter-administration mail items to be encoded without risk of disruption of the automated system of the delivery post. It may be applied to any size of item.
