Documents

CWA 16036 on Cyber-Identity

The CEN (Comité Européen de Normalisation - the European Committee for Standardization) Workshop on Cyber-Identity has issued the CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) 16036 on "Cyber-Identity: Unique Identification Systems For Organizations And Parts Thereof".

We have created a summary of CWA 16036 (7 pages)
The full CWA 16036 can be downloaded from the CEN FTP-server

You may also download the presentation held a the kickoff meeting of the "CEN/ISSS Workshop on Cyber-Identity: Unique identification systems for organisations and parts thereof" (CEN/ISSS WS/CyberID). It gives an overview over the background and the topics of this CEN Workshop.

You can download the presentation in Microsoft Powerpoint or the PDF format

Comment on OASIS ebCore Party Id Type Technical Specification

The ebCore Technical Commmittee of OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has issued the draft "OASIS ebCore Party Id Type Technical Specification Version 1.0".

The specification references the CWA 16036 on "Cyber-Identity: Unique Identification of organizations and parts thereof".

We have submitted a comment on this draft specification.
Our major comment can be summarized as follows: The specification is focused on the usage of the Party Identifier Type as attribute values in XML-tags. With minor adaptions to the specification, the area of application of this promising spec can be extended.
Wea are glad to see that our proposal was included in the updated version of the specification.

Please click here to download the specification from the OASIS website.

Please click here to read our comment to the draft specification.

Comment on Final Report of Expert Group on eInvoicing

The European Commission's Expert Group on eInvoicing has released its final report. It provides a set of recommendations for a European Electronic Invoicing Framework, supporting the uptake of cross border interoperable eInvoicing solutions, with a particular focus for uptake among SMEs. This includes the guidance recommendation 5.5.5 "Addressing and Routing" which stresses that existing identification schemes should be used for this purpose and that a discussion based on the CEN CWA on Cyber-Identity shall be convened.

You can download the Final Report of the Expert Group on eInvoicing from the website of EC DG Enterprise

We have submitted a comment on the Final Report of Expert Group on eInvoicing.

You can download the document in the PDF format

UNIVERSE^® - UNique Identification and VERification SErvice

Read a short introduction to UNIVERSE^®. The introduction explains on one page the purpose of the service:

You can download the document in the PDF format

Download/view a presentation on UNIVERSE^®. The presentation gives a short overview on how the service UNIVERSE^® may be used and provides some examples:

You can download the presentation in Microsoft Powerpoint or the PDF format
The specimen offer referenced in the presentation (PDF format)

ICD list

Download/view the complete list of all issued ICD values:

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UID

We have responded to the consultations concerning the Swiss law on a unique company identification number (UIDG) as well as well as to the consultation concerning the planned according ordinance (UIDV).(German language)

Wir haben an der Vernehmlassung zum Bundesgesetz über die Unternehmens-Identifikationsnummer (UIDG) sowie an der Anörung betreffnd der zugehörigen Verording (UIDV) teilgenommen:

You can download our response to the consultation about the law (UIDG) in the PDF format (German language). Sie können unsere Stellungnahme zum Bundesgesetz über die Unternehmens-Identifikationsnummer (UIDG) im PDF-Format herunterladen.
You can download our response to the consultation about the ordinance (UIDV) in the PDF format (German language). Sie können unsere Stellungnahme zum Entwurf der Verordnung über die Unternehmens-Identifikationsnummer (UIDV) im PDF-Format herunterladen.