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 binaryDD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010 DRAFT FOR DEVELOPMENTNational forewordThis
2、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 publicationsand is of a provisional nature. It should be applied on thisprovisional basis, so that information a
3、nd 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 responsible for its conversion toan international standard. A review of this publication willbe in
4、itiated 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 announcement in the appropriate issue of Update Standards.According to the replies received by the end
5、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 should be sentto the Secretary of the responsible BSI Technical Committee at BritishStandards H
6、ouse, 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 beobtained on request to its secretary.This publication does not purport to include all the necessa
7、ryprovisions 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.This Draft for Development was published under the authority ofthe Standards Policy and Strategy Commi
8、ttee on 31 January 2011.Amendments issued since publicationDate Text affectedDD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010TECHNICAL 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 struct
9、ure, message and binary Traitement automatis des envois postaux - Chronomarquage des envois postaux - Partie 1: Structure de la chronomarque, reprsentations smantique et binairePostalische Dienstleistungen - ID-Kennzeichnung von Briefsendungen - Teil 1: Struktur, Nachricht und Binrdarstellung von ID
10、-Kennzeichen This Technical Specification (CEN/TS) was approved by CEN on 1 December 2008 for provisional 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 questio
11、n 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 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
12、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 national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
13、Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION COMIT EUROPEN DE NORMALISATION EUROPISCHES KOMITEE FR NORMUNG Management Centre: Av
14、enue 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. CEN/TS 15844-1:2010: EDD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010CEN/TS 15844-1:2010 (E) 2 Contents Page Foreword 3Introduction .41 Scope 62 Normative references 73 Terms
15、 and 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
16、 . 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 af
17、ter write check 2213.8 Referencing of ID-tagged items . 2214 Reading and validation of ID-tags on items . 23Bibliography . 24DD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010CEN/TS 15844-1:2010 (E) 3 Foreword This document (CEN/TS 15844-1:2010) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 331 “Postal services”, the secreta
18、riat 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 coming f
19、rom 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 only after prior consultation, between CEN/TC 331 and the UPU Standards Board, in accordance with
20、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 1 of a multi-part CEN/TS 1584
21、4, 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 representation on items is covered by Parts 2 to 5, which define a number of alternative printed repre
22、sentations. 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, whilst the more recently specified BNB-78 encoding described in Part 2 has been operationally
23、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 flats and 5 for small letters, has been implemented by Belgian Post, Correos (Spain), Swiss Pos
24、t 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 Technical Specification: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Est
25、onia, 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 Kingdom. 1)The Universal Postal Union (UPU) is the specialized institution of
26、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 660 000 post offices all over the world handle an annual total of 425 billion l
27、etters-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 using new communication and information technologies to move beyond what is
28、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 number of standards to improve the exchange of postal-related information betwee
29、n 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 ensures that coherent standards are developed in areas such as electronic data
30、 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 world-wide web site (www.upu.int).DD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010CEN/TS 15844-1:2010
31、(E) 4 Introduction Many individual postal administrations have used some form of domestic ID-tagging for 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 posta
32、l processing facility); are applied to only a relatively small subset of items with specific characteristics, 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 th
33、e utility of domestic ID-tags, preventing their use for a wide range of potential applications and, in particular, 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
34、interfere with the processing of the item concerned by another, resulting either in the need for over-labelling 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 (differen
35、t) domestic ID-tag or, if it does, will almost certainly not be able to read the result. The impact of this 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 administra
36、tions which make heavy use of domestic ID-tags) to base their domestic ID-tags on a common specification 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 b
37、y more and more Posts, for a wider range of applications and on an increasing proportion of items, would, 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 1584
38、4-1 is intended to address these limitations. It comprises a main Part 1 (this document), together with four 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:
39、Definition of an S18 ID-tag: provides a precise definition of an S18 ID-tag; Data construct type: specifies 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 t
40、he logical structure and information content of an S18 ID-tag. These are defined separately from the physical 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
41、structure definition and describes the procedure for allocation and publication of domain codes; 3) Note 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. DD CEN/TS 15844-1:2010CEN/T
42、S 15844-1:2010 (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 s
43、pecification. 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;
44、Representation 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
45、; Usage 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
46、resulting information. DD 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 5). This is an identifier for individual mail items which: is globally unique; can be applie
47、d 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 ri
48、sk of disruption of the automated system of the delivery post. It may be applied to any size of item. can be read, with a high degree of reliability, by any postal handling organisation possessing appropriate equipment. NOTE 2 ID-tags are encoded on items using a bar code symbology. As with any othe
49、r form of bar code, poor quality printing, ink smudging, damage to the item, etc., can result in read errors. The S18 ID-tag encoding specifications incorporate an error protection mechanism to allow detection and correction of a large proportion of such errors. The S18 ID-tag defined in this Technical Specification may be placed on items so that, in subsequent processing, individual items can be recognised and associated with computer-based information relating to the item concerned. NO
