Survey on ID code schemes for NID applications and services NID-WG, the 9 th CJK meeting, April 2009 Noboru Koshizuka Tetsuo Kamina TTC tel: /fax:

2 Purpose To investigate which ID schemes satisfy the requirements presented in F Comments from France Telecom at the last SG16 meeting ID requirements from F 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

3 ID schemes for supply chain management (1) DescriptionID00 1 ID00 2 ID00 3 ID00 4 EPCID numbers used in supply chain management. It is difficult for individuals to issue new numbers. ×○ △ ○ JAN codeID numbers used in supply chain management in Japan. It is difficult for individuals to issue new numbers. ×○ △ ○ UPC codeID 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. ×○×○

4 ID schemes for supply chain management (2) DescriptionID00 1 ID00 2 ID00 3 ID00 4 ISO 15418Application Identifier that is used for identifying the kind of following data. ×××○ ISO 15424Data carrier identifier that is used for detecting data carrier by the reader. ×××○ ISO 15459ID for products that RF tag is attached. Mainly used in supply chain management. ×○ △ ○ ISO 15963Standard numbering system for RFID. Issued by RFID makers. ○○×○

5 Miscellaneous ID schemes (1) ID schemeDescriptionID00 1 ID00 2 ID00 3 ID00 4 ISO 6709Standard representation of latitude, longitude and altitude ×○×○ Zip codeA kind of place identifier (PI). Assured to be unique only inside the country. ×○×× E.164Recommendation for telephone numbering. ×××○ Residents identification number Identifying citizens. Generally assigned by the government. ×○×○

6 Miscellaneous ID schemes (2) DescriptionID00 1 ID00 2 ID00 3 ID00 4 ISBN/ISSNInternational standards for numbering books or publications. ×○×○ DOIIdentifier 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 IDUsed as a login name across the Internet. A person may possess multiple ID numbers. ×○××

7 General purpose ID schemes DescriptionID00 1 ID00 2 ID00 3 ID00 4 GUID(UUID)Pseudo random number used in software as identifier. Not assured to be unique number. ○○○× OIDNumeric string that is used to uniquely identify an object. ○○×○ URIIdentifying resources on the Internet. No predefined method for issuing is proposed. ○○○× xCodeAn ID scheme managed by Korea. It can be assigned for everything that we want to identify. ○○○○ ucodeAn ID scheme managed by Ubiquitous ID Center. It can be assigned for everything that we want to identify. ○○○○