NF EN 14142-1

Le présent document fournit un dictionnaire des composants possibles des adresses postales, ainsi que des exemples et les contraintes de leur utilisation. Il définit également plusieurs termes utiles ; tels que adresse de distribution, adresse de réexpédition, destinataire intermédiaire et initiateur du courrier. Ce document définit trois niveaux de composant d'adresse postale : a) les éléments, tels que nom d'organisme ou statut juridique, qui correspondent au niveau le plus bas des composants qu'il peut être utile (A.1) de distinguer dans les représentations d'adresse ; b) les constructions, telles que identification d'organisme, qui regroupent des éléments en unités plus significatives pour l'interprétation humaine ; c) les segments, tels que spécification de destinataire, qui correspondent à des portions logiques majeures d'une adresse postale.

ISO 19160-4:2017 defines key terms for postal addressing, postal address components and constraints on their use. Specifically, ISO 19160-4:2017 defines postal address components organized into three hierarchical levels: - elements, such as organization name or postcode, which have well-defined conceptual meaning and are not themselves made up of subordinate components, though they may be sub-divided for technical purposes; - constructs, such as organization identification, which group elements into units form a logical portion of a postal address; - segments, such as addressee specification, which group-related postal address constructs and/or postal address elements into units with a specific defined function. ISO 19160-4:2017 also specifies a mechanism for creation of sub-elements, which correspond to either sub-divisions of element content, such as door type or door indicator or to multiple occurrences and locations of elements in an address, such as levels of administrative regions. ISO 19160-4:2017 does not specify the length of any component nor the value range of any component. Moreover, ISO 19160-4:2017 defines the codes to identify elements and sub-elements. Further, ISO 19160-4:2017 specifies postal address rendering rules. This includes identification and ordering of output lines in a rendered address, conditions for selection of candidate lines, the order and concatenation of postal address components, required and optional components, parameters to contextualize address for rendering and the formatting of the components, subject to constraints on the space available for that task. Postal address rendering rules are represented in ISO 19160-4:2017 as a postal address template. Finally, ISO 19160-4:2017 specifies language suitable for computer processing to formally express postal address templates.