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THE WORLD'S RFID AUTHORITY
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Article Link: DHL Express Steps Back from Internal Use of RFID
DHL Article
by CRAIG HARMON, posted 06/01/2007
Drawing the distinction between the SSCC and MH10 denigrates the breadth of the work in MH 10. What EPC does not support are ASC MH 10 Data Identifiers and even at this writing do not support GS1 Application Identifiers. That will change. The ASC MH10 standard shipping labels embrace the SSCC, the ASC MH10 standard for syntax embraces Application Identifiers. What EPCglobal did was to scrap all of the data structures of bar codes and decided to start anew.
This has been a major reason for the failure of the EPC standards to be widely embraced. We should not change data structures every time we change technologies. The ISO 1736x standards, Supply chain applications of RFID meet the needs of DHL AND EPC. The automobile industry needs more than EPC; so does IATA, libraries, health care, electronics, and freight containers. Some day the media will learn that while consortia spends a massive percentage of their budget on marketing and self-promotion; ISO spends that effort developing standards that can be used be all industries using existing data structures. Craig K. Harmon craig.harmon@qed.org Message threads
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