NF EN ISO 19160-4, Z52-053-4 (04/2023)

This document defines key terms relating to postal addressing, postal address components and associated usage constraints. This document specifies in particular the postal address components by organizing them into three hierarchical levels: — elements, such as the name of the organization or the postal code, which have a well-defined conceptual meaning and which are not themselves even made up of subordinate components, although they may be subdivided for technical reasons; — constructions, such as organization identification, which group elements into units to form a logical portion of a postal address; — segments, such as recipient specification, which group related constructs and/or postal address elements into units with a specific defined function. This document also defines a mechanism for creating sub-elements that correspond to subdivisions of the content of an element, such as gate type or gate indicator, or to multiple occurrences and locations of an element in an address, such as the levels of administrative regions. This document does not specify the length or value range of any of the components. In addition, this document specifies codes to identify elements and sub-elements. Furthermore, this document specifies the rules for rendering postal addresses. This includes: — identification and ordering of output lines in a presented address; — the conditions for selecting candidate lines; — the order and concatenation of postal address components; — mandatory and optional components; — the parameters allowing an address to be contextualized for its presentation; — the formatting of the components, according to the constraints of the space available for this task. This document expresses the rules for rendering postal addresses in the form of a postal address template. Finally, this document defines a language suitable for computer processing making it possible to formally express postal address models. This document does not cover the subject of data protection. Users of this document are reminded, however, that the storage and exchange of personal data is subject to legislation in many countries.
(Automatic translation from French)