Chaired by Dr. Vinod Chachra of VTLS, the group will focus on interoperability of tags and hardware across vendors. He also emphasized that they must encourage “vertical application isolation among different industries. In other words, we do not want CDs purchased at a store to trigger library security gates and library books to set off alarms at grocery stores. Most importantly, we must achieve these goals while protecting personal privacy.”
The NISO announcement states that the product of this group will be a “best practices document [that]will form a part of a larger input document on U.S, requirements for the ISO TC 46 working group developing a standard data model for encoding information on the tag. The group will also coordinate with American Library Association/Book Industry Study Group working group around the interaction of technology and privacy issues. ”
A post to the SYS_LIB list by Cynthia Hodgson of NISO also says that for more information, you can contact NISO at nisohq@niso.org. Interestingly, this announcement was not posted by her to RFID_Lib, though someone else cross-posted it there.
Good to know the work is in progress. We’ll try to keep it in our sights to report on developments.