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  1. OMG Issue

COMMONS14 — Add support for addresses to Commons

  • Key: COMMONS14-17
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Thematix Partners LLC ( Mrs. Elisa F. Kendall)
  • Summary:

    A number of OMG and external processes have requested us to add an address ontology to Commons, including manufacturing (CASCaRA), retail (RIO), systems engineering (SE DSIG, for various applications) and EDMA for FIBO and other external community ontology efforts.

    The original address ontology from FIBO is a good start for this. It reflects definitions from the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) for corporate addresses as well as additional detail from USPS Publication 28, which is used not only by the US Postal Service but by many logistics companies world-wide. For a number of years there was no ISO standard for addresses, and the recent addition of such a standard is skewed towards the EU (heavily). US regulatory agencies in financial services have mandated the use of USPS Pub 28, which is why that is the primary source for FIBO. The new Commons ontology should reflect USPS Pub 28 but also be compatible with the recent ISO standard.

  • Reported: Commons 1.3 — Sat, 8 Aug 2026 23:57 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 8 Aug 2026 23:57 GMT