ITU-T
The YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory has promoted activities to standardize ubiquitous ID technology internationally since 2005 in the ITU-T (Telecommunication Standardization Sector, International Telecommunication Union, United Nations, Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland). Our laboratory proposed two standards of F.MID and H.MID, and assumed the role of editor. These standards received consent as ITU-T recommendations in May 2008 and acquired approval through the AAP process in August. Following approval, F.MID received recommendation number F.771 [1] and H.MID received recommendation number H.621 [2].
These standards are the first international standards for infrastructure concerning network type information access for providing information services through networks using electronic tags etc. The F.771 recommendation concerns requirements for network type multimedia information access triggered by tag-based information such as RFIDs and the H.621 recommendation stipulates the architecture for realizing this multimedia information access based on ubiquitous ID architecture. These standards can be applied not only to distribution and logistics, which have been a major application of electronic tags, but also to a wide variety of applications such as food traceability, location dependent type information access, and free mobility assistance services.
In the future, the international standardization of more detailed technology will continue to be promoted and two new standardization work items named H.IDscheme [3] and H.IRP [4] are already approved in the Study Group 16. H.IDscheme is a draft of standard for ID code systems which includes ucodes and H.IRP is a draft of standard which includes a ucode resolution server standard. The YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory will serve as editor for both H.IDscheme and H.IRP. The international standardization of more technological items are scheduled for the future.
[1] F.771："Service description and requirements for multimedia information access triggered by tag-based identification"（Editor: Y. Takashima/YRP UNL）
[2] H.621："Tag-based ID triggered multimedia information access system architecture" （Editor: Y. Takashima/YRP UNL）
[3] H.IDscheme："ID schemes for multimedia information access triggered by tag-based identification"［Approval schedule：2009］（Editor: N. Koshizuka/YRP UNL and J.S. Lee/ETRI, Korea）
[4] H.IRP："ID resolution protocols for multimedia information access triggered by tag-based identification"［Approval schedule：2009］（Editor: N. Koshizuka/YRP UNL and J.S. Lee/ETRI, Korea）
ISO/TC211
TC211 was established in ISO (International Organization for Standard) to handle "Geographic information/Geomatics" which mainly consists of GIS (Geographical Information System). An ad-hoc group, UBGI (UBiquitous Geographical Information), was established within TC211 to promote research aiming at the international standardization of advanced ubiquitous location information systems like the one implemented by Ubiquitous ID Center. In October 2007, an ISO/TC211 general meeting was held in Xian, China, and Ubiquitous ID Center participated in the "ISO/TC211 Standards in Action Workshop" and made a presentation titled, "ucode: An Efficient Tag-based Location Identification System for Ubiquitous Geographic Information". Here, the importance of ubiquitous location information systems was emphasized, and their achievements using ucodes in Japan were promoted. The importance of ubiquitous technologies highlighted in this general meeting was approved, and the ad-hoc UBGI group was successfully promoted as a WG (WG10). In the future, the promotion of international standardization of ubiquitous location information systems will be expected. Ubiquitous ID Center would like to contribute proactively to promoting international standardization in ISO/TC211 along the lines of the contributions made to the ITU-T.
ISO/TC211 website:
http://www.isotc211.org/
CJK (China, Japan and Korea) NID Working Committee
The China, Japan, Korea NID Working Committee is chaired annually in turn by each country and held two to three times a year for the purpose of information exchange among Japan, China, and Korea and for the advance arrangement of documents to be submitted to ITU-T, ISO, etc. Currently, the chairperson is Associate Prof. Noboru Koshizuka (The University of Tokyo).
