Overview of ONS Requirements and FONS MSWG

©2008 GS1 EPCglobal What is a ONS? ONS – Object Name Service Based on DNS – Domain Name System, an Internet standard for discovering addresses and services related to Internet domain names Best known uses are to resolve Internet addresses of web sites and to discover receiving server for

©2008 GS1 EPCglobal Core Requirement – Federation Current architecture supports a single root based on onsepc.com Federated architecture has no single root but rather several peer roots Required to satisfy international governance issues Each peer responsible for a subset of the ONS namespace

©2008 GS1 EPCglobal Core requirement – Federation Each peer knows about the others and redirects queries as required Each peer required to meet minimum Service Level Agreement to participate in federation Each MO responsible for selection of its peer

©2008 GS1 EPCglobal Core requirement – data carriers ONS shall be agnostic as to the data carrier (bar code or RFID) used for the identifier ONS requires that Global Company Prefix be known, doesnt easily support bar codes Does not require that ONS itself provide parsing Parsing may be supplied by external service such as GEPIR or other

©2008 GS1 EPCglobal Core Requirement – Dynamic Service Definition No services are defined for ONS Existing specification has only a a small number of non- normative examples Dynamic service definition allows services to defined at any level (industry, country, global)

©2008 GS1 EPCglobal Use case – Discovery services bootstrapping Locate Brand Owners EPCIS server via ONS lookup based on GTIN Locate known supply chain partners EPCIS server via ONS lookup based on GLN

©2008 GS1 EPCglobal Use case – Mobile Commerce Retrieval of authoritative Mobile Commerce data based on the products GTIN Retrieval of coupon or flyer service based on the retail locations GLN

©2008 GS1 EPCglobal Use case – GEPIR bootstrapping Locating the GEPIR node for querying basic product or location information and for querying global company prefix ownership

©2008 GS1 EPCglobal Use case – Product authentication Locating an authoritative Product Authentication service What makes product authentic? Is serial number valid? Are there any counterfeit-resistant marks on the packaging?

©2008 GS1 EPCglobal Join the FONS MSWG We need Business Users to participate to help shape the services requirements and uses tied into Discovery Services and EPCIS. We need MOs to participate to support development of a Federated model for the services rendered We need Solution Providers to attend to help us make this a technically robust standard.