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 specificationDD CEN/TS 15844-3:2010 DRAFT FOR DEVELOPMENTNational forewordThis Draft f
2、or 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 of a provisional nature. It should be applied on thisprovisional basis, so that information and expe
3、rience 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 initiated
4、 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 of the
5、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 House, 3
6、89 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 necessaryprovi
7、sions 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 for Development was published under the authority ofthe Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on
8、 31 January 2011.Amendments issued since publicationDate Text affectedDD CEN/TS 15844-3:2010TECHNICAL 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 spec
9、ification Traitement automatis des envois postaux - Chronomarquage des envois postaux - Partie 3: Spcification 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)
10、 was approved by CEN on 12 January 2009 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 question whether the CEN/TS can be converted into a Europ
11、ean 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 in force (in parallel to the CEN/TS) until the fin
12、al 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, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemb
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14、s of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. CEN/TS 15844-3:2010: EDD 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
15、Usage 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
16、the 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 mes
17、sage 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
18、code template 20Bibliography . 21DD 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 secretariat of which is held by NEN. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the element
19、s 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 from CEN/TC 331 and UPU, under the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding between the U
20、PU 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 with the Memorandum of Understanding between CEN and the UPU. The UPUs contribution to the documen
21、t 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 15844, Postal services ID-tagging of letter mail items. It should be read in conjunction with the
22、 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 Specification: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Fran
23、ce, 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 the United Nations
24、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 letters-post items i
25、n 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 traditionally regar
26、ded 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 between posts, and promot
27、es 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 interchange (EDI),
28、 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 15844-3:2010CEN/TS 15844-3:2010 (E) 4 Introduction
29、A general introduction to all parts of the Technical Specification is provided in CEN/TS 15844-1. This part 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
30、main headings: Usage limitations limited issuance: explains that only designated issuers may apply BNB-62 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 elemen
31、ts used in ID-tags which are to be represented on items in the form of a BNB-62 bar code; Encoding specification: 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-ta
32、g is printed on the item itself. This clause defines required ink and printing parameters; Reading and interpretation 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 a
33、nd binary representations: describes the correspondence between BNB-62 representation and the binary and 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 m
34、ay be used for manual decoding of the data elements in printed BNB-62 representations of an ID-tag. Such 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
35、value obtained has been read correctly. DD 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
36、 is one 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 f
37、or flats 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 appl
38、y ID-tags 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 encodi
39、ngs in 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, t
40、he use 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 applicat
41、ion of 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 Te
42、rms and 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
43、The application 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 us
44、e these 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. DD CEN/TS 15844-3:2010CEN/TS 15844-
45、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 bar codes: NOTE 1 These limitations derive from the specification of BNB-62 format, which prec
46、eded 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 In BNB-62 bar codes, the issuer code is represented by a combination of a single bit, called t
47、he 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
48、) domain codes are not used; d) the possible values of equipment identifier are limited to: 1) F8C-F9F, with C-bit value 1 for An Post (issuer code IEA); 2) E10-F8B, with C-bit value 1 for Canada Post (issuer code CAA); 3) 001-D47, with C-bit value 0 for USPS (issuer code USA); 4) D48-E0F, with C-bi
49、t value 1 for USPS-licensed mailers (issuer code USB). NOTE 4 In CEN/TS 15844, equipment codes are hexadecimal. In decimal notation, these ranges correspond to 0001-3599 for USPS; 3600-3979 for Canada Post and 3980-3999 for An Post. Values of 000 and in excess of F9F (decimal 3999) should not be encountered. NOTE 5 Equipment codes in the range D48-E0F (decimal 3400-3599) are allocated, by USPS to agents (mailers) which ID-tag items on USPS behalf. Items carrying ID-tags with equipment ide
