- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:27:50 -0800
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, <uri@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-talk@w3.org>
From: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
> One of the few things that do not currently have standardized URIs are
> generic postal addresses ("snail-mail addresses"). This is a proposal
> for a new URI scheme that will enable people to identify postal
> addresses as a part of URI (and hence WWW) space.
The US Post office has a process that all bulk mailing addresses need to go
through. I think it is called something like CASS certification. It forces
the address into a standard format. There are programs you can buy now that
will take a list and CASS certify it .. i think they work on the Internet
too. This URI scheme, i think, should be a encoding of that standard
format. This would be a good thing too cause we could all have the
standard uri of our residances and when we filled out a form we would just
transmit that uri to the form. Lots of need for that in e-commerce ... no
more worrying about sending duplicate mailing out and wasting postage. I
wonder if USPS has though about this yet ...
Seth
Received on Friday, 16 March 2001 01:30:34 UTC