{
  "id": "BRD-092",
  "slug": "brd-092",
  "title": "US and Canadian addresses use the two-letter state code",
  "statement": "For a US or Canadian address, the state or province must be the two-letter abbreviation.",
  "rationale": "The address match is a string comparison against a record that holds the abbreviation, so \"California\" and \"CA\" are simply different values and the address fails to validate. It is the most common single-component address rejection, and the least obvious, because the address is otherwise perfectly correct.",
  "layer": "BRAND",
  "layerSlug": "brand",
  "object": "brand.state",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "DETERMINISTIC"
  ],
  "failureClass": "RETRY_FIELD",
  "authorities": [
    "AWS",
    "TCR",
    "Bandwidth"
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Replace the full name with the two-letter USPS or Canada Post abbreviation, in upper case. Done when the field holds exactly two letters.",
  "example": "state: CA — not California, not Calif.",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-092/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-092.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}