Survey on ID code schemes for

NID applications and services

NID-WG, the 9th CJK meeting, April 2009

Noboru Koshizuka (koshizuka@sakamura-lab.org)

Tetsuo Kamina (kamina@sakamura-lab.org)

TTC

tel: +81 3 5841 3880/fax: +81 3 5841 8949

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Purpose

To investigate which ID schemes satisfy the requirements presented in F.771- Comments from France Telecom at the last SG16 meeting

ID requirements from F.771- ID001: Identifier is recommended to be used by different

applications- ID002: Identifier is required to be assigned for real-world entities

such as physical/logical objects, persons, and places- ID003: Identifiers is required to be issuable by any organizations

such as business companies, non-profit organizations, governments and individual users

- ID004: Identifier is required to be globally unique so that the multimedia information access triggered by the identifier is to be globally available

- ID005: Multiple identifier schemes are required to be supported

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ID schemes for supply chain management (1)

Description ID001

ID002

ID003

ID004

EPC ID numbers used in supply chain management. It is difficult for individuals to issue new numbers.

× ○ △ ○

JAN code ID numbers used in supply chain management in Japan. It is difficult for individuals to issue new numbers.

× ○ △ ○

UPC code ID numbers used in supply chain management in US. It is difficult for individuals to issue new numbers.

× ○ △ ○

Global Location Number (GLN)

Business code mainly used for EDI. 13 digits decimal number.

× ○ × ○

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ID schemes for supply chain management (2)

Description ID001

ID002

ID003

ID004

ISO 15418 Application Identifier that is used for identifying the kind of following data.

× × × ○

ISO 15424 Data carrier identifier that is used for detecting data carrier by the reader.

× × × ○

ISO 15459 ID for products that RF tag is attached. Mainly used in supply chain management.

× ○ △ ○

ISO 15963 Standard numbering system for RFID. Issued by RFID makers.

○ ○ × ○

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Miscellaneous ID schemes (1)

ID scheme Description ID001

ID002

ID003

ID004

ISO 6709 Standard representation of latitude, longitude and altitude

× ○ × ○

Zip code A kind of place identifier (PI). Assured to be unique only inside the country.

× ○ × ×

E.164 Recommendation for telephone numbering.

× × × ○

Residents identification number

Identifying citizens. Generally assigned by the government.

× ○ × ○

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Miscellaneous ID schemes (2)

Description ID001

ID002

ID003

ID004

ISBN/ISSN International standards for numbering books or publications.

× ○ × ○

DOI Identifier for digital objects such as papers, figures, and tables. Mainly used in online journals.

× ○ × ○

IPv6 address

Numbering scheme for identifying devices connected to the IPv6 network.

○ × ○ ○

MAC address

Identifying physical objects connected to the networks.

× ○ × ○

Open ID Used as a login name across the Internet. A person may possess multiple ID numbers.

× ○ × ×

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General purpose ID schemes

Description ID001

ID002

ID003

ID004

GUID(UUID) Pseudo random number used in software as identifier. Not assured to be unique number.

○ ○ ○ ×

OID Numeric string that is used to uniquely identify an object.

○ ○ × ○

URI Identifying resources on the Internet. No predefined method for issuing is proposed.

○ ○ ○ ×

xCode An ID scheme managed by Korea. It can be assigned for everything that we want to identify.

○ ○ ○ ○

ucode An ID scheme managed by Ubiquitous ID Center. It can be assigned for everything that we want to identify.

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