ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 15963-1 First edition 2020-02 Information technology Radio frequency identification for item management - Part 1: Unique identification for RF tags numbering systems Technologiesde Il'information-Identification parradiofréquence pourlagestiondes objets Partie1:Systemes numeriques pour I'identificationuniquedes tagsRF Reference number IEC ISO/IEC 15963-1:2020(E) @IS0/IEC2020 IS0/IEC15963-1:2020(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT IS0/IEC2020 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, or required in the context of its implementation, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting below or Iso's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office CP 401 : Ch. de Blandonnet 8 CH-1214 Vernier, Geneva Phone:+4122749 0111 Fax: +41 22 749 09 47 Email: [email protected] Website: www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ii ISO/IEC 2020 - All rights reserved IS0/IEC15963-1:2020(E) Contents Page Foreword ..iv Introduction ..V 1 Scope. ..1 2 Normativereferences 3 Termsanddefinitions 4 Abbreviatedterms 5 Unique identifiers ..3 6 Unique identification of an RF tag. .4 6.1 Unique identification .4 6.1.1 General. .4 6.1.2 VirtualID .4 6.1.3 Data as a unique ID 6.1.4 Time as a unique ID 4 6.1.5 Positionas aunique ID .4 6.2 Permanent unique ID .4 6.2.1 Unique ID. .4 6.2.2 BenefitsofpermanentuniqueIDversusvirtual ID 5 6.2.3 SelectionofthesizeofapermanentuniqueID .5 Annex A (normative) Numbering system ofa permanent unique RF tag identifier (TID) ..6 AnnexB (normative)IS0/IEC7816-6numberingsystemsforRFID ..10 AnnexC (normative)Is014816-Numberinganddatastructures. .12 AnnexD (normative)IS0/IEC18000-63orIS0/IEC18000-3Mode3numberingsystemsfor .13 RFID AnnexE (normative)IS0/IEC15963-2 numbering systems. .15 Bibliography .16 IS0/IEC 2020-All rights reserved ili