MTAC

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MTAC 104List CertificationStatus Update

• USPS Co-chairs Charles Hunt, James Wilson
• Industry Co-chair Chris Lien
• USPS Sponsors Charles Bravo, Nick Barranca
• Industry Sponsors Ernie Rojas, Joe Lubenow

November 2, 2006
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Major Stakeholders

• Postage Payers / Mailers
• List Owners
• List Brokers
• Service Bureaus
• Printers / Lettershops
• Software Vendors
• U.S. Postal Service

We currently have 34 members in Workgroup 104
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Proposed List Certification Policies
The List Administrator

• Proactive steps to ensure accuracy
• Establishing a feedback mechanism
• Provides guidance to stakeholders
• Timely utilization of feedback information
• Interacts with the USPS to reconcile address
  problems
• Meets established documentation standards
• Optionally provides extrapolated address
  information as allowable to the USPS to improve
  address information within other certified lists

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List Certification Process

• CASS Certified Software
• DPV
• LACSLink
• SuiteLink
• AEC and AEC II
• NCOALink
• ANKLink
• OneCodeACS
• Other industry address correction tools

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Application of Address Quality
Update
Validate
Standardize
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Some New and Current Definitions

• Certified List
• SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm)
• A value representing a name and address
• List Administrator
• Certified List Administrator
• Non-certified Addresses
• Addresses in which some level of deficiency is
  detected, thus resulting in the address being
  considered potentially UAA
• CARL (Corrective Action Required List)
• Corrective Action Code

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A Proposed Feedback Mechanism
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Next Steps

• Meeting at 1200 on November 2
• Discussing Validation
• How do you prove the address is certified?
• Recommendations

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Contact Information

• Interested participants should contact
• Charles Hunt
• Charles.Hunt_at_usps.gov
• James Wilson
• james.d.wilson_at_usps.gov
• Chris Lien
• chris.lien_at_businessobjects.com