A Dog’s Tale on RFID Standards

In the past these two organizations have operated quite independently on standards development, often with divergent approaches. Encouragingly, in the last 12-months there has been growing collaboration between these organizations. This is evidenced by the fact that the Generation 2 Electronic Product Code (EPC) tag/reader specification, ratified by EPCglobal on December 2004, is expected to be approved by ISO and included as an amendment of the ISO18000 series by the end of 2005.