Membership

UBL Term	Description
Party	A Person or an Organization who plays a role in a business transaction.
Person	An individual contact.
Organization	A group of Persons in the broadest sense: a company, institute, or other type of group that will play a role in a business transaction.
ComboParty	Created exclusively to represent an iMIS record that holds both a contact and an institute. (that is, a Name record that has Individual information but represents an Institute.)

A Person is associated with their primary Organization through the Person's PrimaryOrganizationInformation.
The Party's FullAddress contains an (optional) basic postal/physical address, as well as associated phone, fax, email, and other information. This is different from the iMIS15 concept of a full address, which is a fully formatted physical address. In SOA, the FullAddress combines all of the elements of a physical address with the phone, email, and fax associated with the address purpose.
Part of the FullAddress, the CommunicationPreference indicates the reasons that the address should be used. This is not the traditional address purpose, which is a property within the FullAddress in its own right. CommunicationPreference is a collection of reasons to use the address, such as for alerts, or relating to a specific committee, and so forth.