Subject: UIDs for organizations

From: "Anders Rundgren" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:26:35 +0100

Hi,
I'm trying to figure out what kind of variations there is out there
with respect on how you identify organizations.

These are the schemes I know of

DUNS
   Duns and Bradstreet.  A 9-digit number that most commercial
   organizations over the world get without asking

Swedish AB
   12-digit number for Swedish corporations.  Similar schemes
   exist for self-employed people and governmental orgs.
   Different authorities manage these separate "name-spaces".

How about Germany, France, UK, Italy, Japan, India, Australia etc.?

Off-list posts are preferred.

Maybe there is a document somewhere on the web?

cheers,
Anders