Observed arrival · 2026-09-20
EPC Ledger and the RFID Ownership Problem
A proposed cross-organization repository for determining who an unidentified RFID tag belongs to.
- For
- RFID retailers, brands, tag issuers, and integrators
- Worth noticing
- The proposed lookup returns yours, theirs, or unknown while withholding contributors’ raw data.
Field notes
The proposal is built around a pull-based verification workflow rather than continuous tracking: a retailer submits unresolved EPCs after a stocktake and receives a limited ownership result. It explicitly separates issuance records from scan events, uses GS1 terminology, and treats “unknown” as a legitimate outcome for non-encoded or uncontributed items. The public page also frames independent governance as the mechanism for allowing competing retailers, brands, and integrators to participate without sharing raw data.
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