1、raising standards worldwideNO COPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAWBSI Standards PublicationDD CEN/TS 15844-3:2010Postal services ID-tagging ofletter mail itemsPart 3: BNB-62 encoding specificationLicensed Copy: Wang Bin, ISO/EXCHANGE CHINA STANDARDS, 09/05/2011 07:36,
2、Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-3:2010 DRAFT FOR DEVELOPMENTNational forewordThis Draft for Development is the UK implementation of CEN/TS15844-3:2010.This publication is not to be regarded as a British Standard.It is being issued in the Draft for Development series of publicationsand is o
3、f 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 respon
4、sible 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 announcemen
5、t 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. Comments sho
6、uld 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 beobtai
7、ned 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 63258 7ICS 03.240Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity fromlegal obligations.This Draft
8、 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 07:36, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-3:2010TECHNICAL
9、SPECIFICATION SPCIFICATION TECHNIQUE TECHNISCHE SPEZIFIKATION CEN/TS 15844-3 December 2010 ICS 03.240 English Version Postal services - ID-tagging of letter mail items - Part 3: BNB-62 encoding specification Traitement automatis des envois postaux - Chronomarquage des envois postaux - Partie 3: Spci
10、fication de codage en BNB (Bar No Bar)- 62 caractres Postalische Dienstleistungen - ID-Kennzeichnung von Briefsendungen - Teil 3: Festlegung der BNB-62-CodierungThis Technical Specification (CEN/TS) was approved by CEN on 12 January 2009 for provisional application. The period of validity of this CE
11、N/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 the existence of this CEN/TS in the same way as for
12、 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/TS into an EN is reached. CEN members are the nat
13、ional 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, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switze
14、rland 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 reserved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. C
15、EN/TS 15844-3:2010: ELicensed Copy: Wang Bin, ISO/EXCHANGE CHINA STANDARDS, 09/05/2011 07:36, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-3:2010CEN/TS 15844-3:2010 (E) 2 Contents Page Foreword 3Introduction .41 Scope 52 Normative references 53 Terms and definitions .54 Symbols and abbreviations 55 Usa
16、ge limitations Limited issuance 56 Value range limitations .67 Encoding specification .77.1 Data to be encoded 77.2 Calculation of the error detection and correction bits.97.3 Construction of the bar code to be printed on the Item . 108 Printing of the bar code . 118.1 Optical characteristics of the
17、 ink 118.2 Bar code characteristics 119 Reading and interpretation of BNB-62 bar codes . 129.1 Discrimination from other bar codes 129.2 Fully-read bar codes . 139.3 Partially read bar codes . 139.4 Checking data field values . 139.5 Manual interpretation of bar codes . 1510 Conversion to the messag
18、e and binary representations . 15Annex A (informative) Error detection and correction algorithms 18A.1 Introduction . 18A.2 Calculation of error control bars . 18A.3 Checking the read value for errors . 18A.4 Correcting an erroneous bar code 19Annex B (informative) S18 ID-tag 62-position BNB bar cod
19、e template 20Bibliography . 21Licensed Copy: Wang Bin, ISO/EXCHANGE CHINA STANDARDS, 09/05/2011 07:36, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-3:2010CEN/TS 15844-3:2010 (E) 3 Foreword This document (CEN/TS 15844-3:2010) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 331 “Postal services”, the sec
20、retariat 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 identifying any or all such patent rights. NOTE This document has been prepared by experts comi
21、ng from CEN/TC 331 and UPU, under the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding between the UPU and CEN. This document, CEN/TS 15844-3, is the CEN equivalent of UPU 1)standard S18c-6. It may be amended only after prior consultation, between CEN/TC 331 and the UPU Standards Board, in accordance wi
22、th 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 the “General information on UPU standards“. This document forms Part 3 of a multi-part CEN/TS 1
23、5844, Postal services ID-tagging of letter mail items. It should be read in conjunction with the main body of the specification, Part 1. According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to announce this Technical Specificati
24、on: 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, Switzerland and the United K
25、ingdom. 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 working in over 66
26、0 000 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, posts are increasingly
27、 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 maintains a growing num
28、ber 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. The Standards Board e
29、nsures 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 downloaded from the UPU
30、 world-wide web site (www.upu.int).Licensed Copy: Wang Bin, ISO/EXCHANGE CHINA STANDARDS, 09/05/2011 07:36, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-3:2010CEN/TS 15844-3:2010 (E) 4 Introduction A general introduction to all parts of the Technical Specification is provided in CEN/TS 15844-1. This pa
31、rt deals only with the encoding of ID-tags in the form of a 62-position bar-no-bar code, BNB-62, printed on the reverse side of items, in area R1, using fluorescent ink. It is arranged under six main headings: Usage limitations limited issuance: explains that only designated issuers may apply BNB-62
32、 ID-tags in accordance with this specification, though any organisation with appropriate equipment may read and use them; Value range limitations: defines limitations on the values of data elements used in ID-tags which are to be represented on items in the form of a BNB-62 bar code; Encoding specif
33、ication: specifies the construction of a 62-position bar-no-bar code from ID-tag data elements; Printing of the bar code: to allow the association of computer data with a physical item, the ID-tag is printed on the item itself. This clause defines required ink and printing parameters; Reading and in
34、terpretation of BNB-62 bar codes: specifies the validation and error correction requirements associated with the reading of ID-tags represented using BNB-62 bar codes; Conversion to the message and binary representations: describes the correspondence between BNB-62 representation and the binary and
35、message interchange representations defined in CEN/TS 15844-1. The above definition is supported by an informative annex: S18 ID-tag 62-position BNB bar code template: provides a template which may be used for manual decoding of the data elements in printed BNB-62 representations of an ID-tag. Such
36、manual decoding should be used with caution since, unless the complete bar code is read and processed through the appropriate error detection/correction algorithm, there is no certainty that the value obtained has been read correctly. Licensed Copy: Wang Bin, ISO/EXCHANGE CHINA STANDARDS, 09/05/2011
37、 07:36, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-3:2010CEN/TS 15844-3:2010 (E) 5 1 Scope This part of the Technical Specification defines the representation of ID-tags as a 62-position bar-no-bar code (BNB-62) printed in fluorescent ink in area R1 on the reverse side of items. BNB-62 encoding is on
38、e of two encoding specifications supported by this Technical Specification 3)for the printing of ID-tags in area R1, the other being BNB-78, which is specified in CEN/TS 15844-2. NOTE 1 Representation in the form of a 4-state code printed on the front of the item is covered in CEN/TS 15844-4 for fla
39、ts and CEN/TS 15844-5 for small letters. BNB-62 encoding is authorised for use only by three issuers: An Post (Ireland), Canada Post and USPS. It should be encountered, on incoming items, only on mail items which originated in Canada, Ireland or the United States. Other issuers wishing to apply ID-t
40、ags in area R1 are required to use the BNB-78 encoding defined in CEN/TS 15844-2. NOTE 2 ID-tags encoded in area R1 are required by article RL 123 of the UPU Letter Post Regulations 2 to be compliant with UPU standard S18 and by this with the related CEN/TS 15844. This supports only two encodings in
41、 area R1, namely BNB-78 as defined in CEN/TS 15844-2 and BNB-62 as defined herein. The latter is authorised for continued use only by the three issuers mentioned above. Where ID-tags are used, and are applied in area R1 on the reverse side of letter mail items of size up to and including C5, the use
42、 of BNB-78 encoding is mandatory for all other issuers. NOTE 3 BNB-62 encoding is not considered suitable for use on flats. CEN/TS 15844-4 defines a 4-state encoding which may be used for this purpose. 2 Normative references The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of
43、 this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies. CEN/TS 15844-1:2010, Postal services ID-tagging of letter mail items Part 1: ID-tag structure, message and binary 3 Terms an
44、d definitions For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in CEN/TS 15844-1:2010 apply. 4 Symbols and abbreviations See CEN/TS15844-1:2010, Postal services ID-tagging of letter mail items Part 1: ID-tag structure, message and binary. 5 Usage limitations Limited issuance The ap
45、plication of ID-tags to items using BNB-62 representation is restricted to three issuers: An Post (Ireland), Canada Post and USPS. NOTE There are no constraints on the reading and use of ID-tags. Any mail handling organisation with appropriate reading equipment may read ID-tags on items and use thes
46、e for their intended purposes. However, the encoding of ID-tags in BNB-62 format is restricted to the three identified issuers. 3)References to “this Technical Specification“ should be interpreted as references to CEN/TS 15844 as a whole, not only to Part 3. Licensed Copy: Wang Bin, ISO/EXCHANGE CHI
47、NA STANDARDS, 09/05/2011 07:36, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSIDD CEN/TS 15844-3:2010CEN/TS 15844-3:2010 (E) 6 6 Value range limitations In addition to the component value limitations defined in CEN/TS 15844-1, the following limitations apply to ID-tags which are to be represented in the form of BNB-62 b
48、ar codes: NOTE 1 These limitations derive from the specification of BNB-62 format, which preceded the definition of UPU standard S18. a) the format identifier is limited to the value 18B; b) only four issuer codes are supported: CAA for Canada Post; IEA for An Post and USA and USB for USPS; NOTE 2 I
49、n BNB-62 bar codes, the issuer code is represented by a combination of a single bit, called the C-bit, and the equipment identifier, based on the ranges specified below. NOTE 3 Two issuer codes are used for USPS to allow a distinction to be made between ID-tags applied by USPS itself (issuer code USA) and ID-tags applied, under licence from USPS, by major mail producers (issuer code USB). c) domain codes are not used; d) the possible values of equipment identifier are limited to: 1) F8C-F9
