ISO/IEC 15961-1:2013

Information technology - Radio frequency identification (RFID) for item management: Data protocol - Part 1: Application interface

ISO/IEC 15961-1:2013 focuses on the abstract interface between an application and the data processor, and includes the specification and definition of application commands and responses. It allows data and commands to be specified in a standardized way, independent of the particular air interface of ISO/IEC 18000. ISO/IEC 15961-1:2013 provides guidelines on how data shall be presented as objects; defines the structure of Object Identifiers, based on ISO/IEC 9834-1; specifies the commands that are supported for transferring data between an application and the radio frequency identification (RFID) tag; specifies the responses that are supported for transferring data between the RFID tag and the application; does not specify any required transfer syntax with ISO/IEC 15962, but provides the non-normative information to provide backward compatibility with ISO/IEC 15961:2004.

Technologies de l'information — Identification par radiofréquence (RFID) pour la gestion d'objets: Protocole de données — Partie 1: Interface d'application

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 07-Mar-2013
• Withdrawal Date: 07-Mar-2013
• ICS: 35.040 - Information coding
• ICS: 35.040.50 - Automatic identification and data capture techniques
• Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 - Automatic identification and data capture techniques
• Drafting Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG 4 - Radio communications
• Current Stage: 9599 - Withdrawal of International Standard
• Start Date: 15-Dec-2021
• Completion Date: 30-Oct-2025

Relations

• Revised: ISO/IEC 15961-1:2021 - Information technology - Data protocol for radio frequency identification (RFID) for item management - Part 1: Application interface
• Effective Date: 23-Apr-2020
• Revises: ISO/IEC 15961:2004 - Information technology - Radio frequency identification (RFID) for item management - Data protocol: application interface
• Effective Date: 15-Apr-2008

Standards Content (Sample)

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 15961-1
First edition
2013-03-15
Information technology — Radio
frequency identification (RFID) for item
management: Data protocol —
Part 1:
Application interface
Technologies de l'information — Identification par radiofréquence
(RFID) pour la gestion d'objets: Protocole de données —
Partie 1: Interface d'application

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Contents Page
Foreword . viii
Introduction . ix
1  Scope . 1
2  Normative references . 1
3  Terms, definitions and conventions . 2
3.1  Terms and definitions . 2
3.2  Conventions . 2
4  Compliance . 2
4.1  General . 2
4.2  Application compliance . 3
4.3  Conformance of the Data Processor . 3
5  Protocol model . 3
5.1  Overview . 3
5.2  Layered protocol . 3
5.2.1  Application layer - as defined in the various parts of ISO/IEC 15961 . 4
5.2.2  Application interface - as defined in ISO/IEC 15961-1 . 5
5.2.3  Data Protocol Processing - as defined in ISO/IEC 15962 . 5
5.2.4  Data Protocol Interface - as defined in ISO/IEC 15962 . 5
5.3  Flexible implementation configurations . 6
5.4  Functional processes – interrogator implementation . 6
5.4.1  Functional processes - application interface . 7
5.4.2  Functional processes – interrogator . 7
5.4.3  RFID tag . 8
5.5  ISO/IEC 15962 and the Data Processor . 9
6  Presentation conventions. 9
6.1  Presentation of commands, responses and arguments . 9
6.1.1  Commands and responses . 9
6.1.2  Arguments . 9
6.1.3  Data types . 10
6.2  Object Identifier presentation in the application interface . 10
6.2.1  Object identifier structure to ISO/IEC 8824-1. 10
6.2.2  Presenting the Object-Identifier in the style of ISO/IEC 8824-1 . 11
6.2.3  Presenting the Object-Identifier as a Uniform Resource Name (URN) . 12
6.3  Byte Notation . 12
6.3.1  The byte: the basic unit for 8-bit coding . 12
6.3.2  Bit ordering . 12
6.3.3  Byte conversion . 12
7  Processing application commands and responses . 12
7.1  General . 12
7.2  Encoding system related information in commands . 13
7.2.1  Singulation-Id . 13
7.2.2  AFI . 13
7.2.3  DSFID . 14
7.2.4  Access-Method . 14
7.2.5  Data-Format . 16
7.3  Preparing the basic Objects and other application-based arguments . 17
7.3.1  General model . 17
7.3.2  Object-Identifier . 17
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7.3.3  Relating Object-Identifiers .18
7.3.4  Object .18
7.3.5  Compact-Parameter .18
7.3.6  Object-Lock .20
7.4  Other command arguments .20
7.4.1  Access-Password .20
7.4.2  Additional-App-Bits .21
7.4.3  AFI-Lock .21
7.4.4  Append-To-Existing-Multiple-Record .21
7.4.5  Application-Defined-Record-Capacity .21
7.4.6  Avoid-Duplicate .21
7.4.7  Battery-Assist-Indicator .21
7.4.8  Block-Align .21
7.4.9  Block-Align-Packed-Object .21
7.4.10  Check-Duplicate .22
7.4.11  Data-CRC-Indicator .22
7.4.12  Data-Length-Of-Record .22
7.4.13  Delete-MR-Method .22
7.4.14  Directory-Length-EBV8-Indicator .22
7.4.15  DSFID-Lock .22
7.4.16  DSFID-Pad-Bytes .23
7.4.17  Editable-Pointer-Size .23
7.4.18  Encoded-Memory-Capacity .23
7.4.19  EPC-Code .23
7.4.20  Full-Function-Sensor-Indicator .23
7.4.21  Hierarchical-Identifier-Arc .23
7.4.22  Identifier-Of-My-Parent .23
7.4.23  Identify-Method .23
7.4.24  ID-Type .24
7.4.25  Instance-Of-Arc .24
7.4.26  Kill-Password .24
7.4.27  Length-Of-Mask .24
7.4.28  Lock-Directory-Entry .24
7.4.29  Lock-Multiple-Records-Header .24
7.4.30  Lock-Record-Preamble .25
7.4.31  Lock-UII-Segment-Arguments .25
7.4.32  Max-App-Length .25
7.4.33  Memory-Bank .25
7.4.34  Memory-Bank-Lock.25
7.4.35  Memory-Length-Encoding .25
7.4.36  Memory-Segment .25
7.4.37  Memory-Type .25
7.4.38  Multiple-Records-Directory-Length .25
7.4.39  Multiple-Records-Features-Indicator .26
7.4.40  NSI-Bits .26
7.4.41  Number-In-Data-Element-List .26
7.4.42  Number-Of-Records .26
7.4.43  Number-Of-Tags .26
7.4.44  Objects-Offsets-Multiplier .27
7.4.45  Packed-Object-Directory-Type .27
7.4.46  Password .27
7.4.47  Password-Type .27
7.4.48  PO-Directory-Size .27
7.4.49  PO-Index-Length .27
7.4.50  Pointer .27
7.4.51  Pointer-To-Multiple-Records-Directory .27
7.4.52  Read-Record-Type .28
7.4.53  Read-Type .29
7.4.54  Record-Memory-Capacity .30
7.4.55  Record-Type-Arc .30
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7.4.56  Record-Type-Classification . 30
7.4.57  Sector-Identifier . 30
7.4.58  Simple-Sensor-Indicator . 31
7.4.59  Start-Address-Of-Record . 31
7.4.60  Tag-Data-Profile-ID-Table . 31
7.4.61  Tag-Mask . 31
7.4.62  Update-Multiple-Records-Directory . 31
7.4.63  Word-Count . 31
7.4.64  Word-Pointer . 31
7.5  Command-related field names . 31
7.5.1  Data-Set . 32
7.5.2  Identities . 32
7.5.3  Length-Lock Byte . 32
7.5.4  Length-Of-Encoded-Data . 32
7.5.5  Lock-Status . 32
7.5.6  Logical-Memory-Map . 32
7.5.7  Memory-Capacity . 32
7.5.8  Module-OID . 32
7.5.9  Number-Of-Tags-Found . 32
7.5.10  PO-ID-Table . 32
7.5.11  Protocol-Control-Word . 32
7.5.12  Read-Data . 33
7.6  Data security . 33
8  Data flows and processes to the air interface . 33
8.1  Establishing communications between the application and the RFID tag . 33
8.1.1  Air interface services . 33
8.1.2  System information . 34
8.2  Application system services . 34
9  Command-Codes, Completion-Codes, and Execution-Codes . 34
9.1  Final arc values of the command and response modules . 35
9.2  Completion-Code . 36
9.3  Execution-Code . 39
10  Commands and responses . 40
10.1  Configure-AFI . 40
10.1.1  Configure-AFI command. 40
10.1.2  Configure-AFI response . 40
10.2  Configure-DSFID . 41
10.2.1  Configure-DSFID command . 41
10.2.2  Configure-DSFID response . 42
10.3  Inventory-Tags . 42
10.3.1  Inventory-Tags command . 42
10.3.2  Inventory-Tags response . 44
10.4  Delete-Object . 44
10.4.1  Delete-Object command . 44
10.4.2  Delete-Object response . 45
10.5  Modify-Object . 46
10.5.1  Modify-Object command. 46
10.5.2  Modify-Object response . 47
10.6  Read-Object-Identifiers . 48
10.6.1  Read-Object-Identifiers command . 48
10.6.2  Read-Object-Identifiers response . 49
10.7  Read-Logical-Memory-Map. 49
10.7.1  Read-Logical-Memory-Map command . 49
10.7.2  Read-Logical-Memory-Map response . 50
10.8  Erase-Memory . 50
10.8.1  Erase-Memory command . 50
10.8.2  Erase-Memory response . 51
10.9  Get-App-Based-System-Info . 51
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10.9.1  Get-App-Based-System-Info command .51
10.9.2  Get-App-Based-System-Info response .51
10.10  Write-Objects .52
10.10.1 Write-Objects command .52
10.10.2 Write-Objects response .54
10.11  Read-Objects .55
10.11.1 Read-Objects command .55
10.11.2 Read-Objects response .56
10.12  Write-Objects-Segmented-Memory-Tag .56
10.12.1 Write-Objects-Segmented-Memory-Tag command .56
10.12.2 Write-Objects-Segmented-Memory-Tag response .58
10.13  Write-EPC-UII .59
10.13.1 Write-EPC-UII command .59
10.13.2 Write-EPC-UII response .60
10.14  Inventory-ISO-UIImemory .60
10.14.1 Inventory-ISO-UIImemory command .60
10.14.2 Inventory-ISO-UIImemory response .61
10.15  Inventory-EPC-UIImemory .62
10.15.1 Inventory-EPC-UIImemory command .62
10.15.2 Inventory-EPC-UIImemory response .62
10.16  Write-Password-Segmented-Memory-Tag .63
10.16.1 Write-Password-Segmented-Memory-Tag command .63
10.16.2 Write-Password-Segmented-Memory-Tag response .63
10.17  Read-Words-Segmented-Memory-Tag .64
10.17.1 Read-Words-Segmented-Memory-Tag command .64
10.17.2 Read-Words-Segmented-Memory-Tag response .64
10.18  Kill-Segmented-Memory-Tag .65
10.18.1 Kill-Segmented-Memory-Tag command .65
10.18.2 Kill-Segmented-Memory-Tag response .65
10.19  Delete-Packed-Object .65
10.19.1 Delete-Packed-Object command .65
10.19.2 Delete-Packed-Object response .66
10.20  Modify-Packed-Object-Structure .67
10.20.1 Modify-Packed-Object-Structure command .67
10.20.2 Modify-Packed-Object-Structure response .68
10.21  Write-Segments-6TypeD-Tag .69
10.21.1 Write-Segments-6TypeD-Tag command .69
10.21.2 Write-Segments-6TypeD-Tag response .70
10.22  Read-Segments-6TypeD-Tag .71
10.22.1 Read-Segments-6TypeD-Tag command .71
10.22.2 Read-Segments-6TypeD-Tag response .73
10.23  Write-Monomorphic-UII .73
10.23.1 Write-Monomorphic-UII command .73
10.23.2 Write-Monomorphic-UII response .75
10.24  Configure-Extended-DSFID .76
10.24.1 Configure-Extended-DSFID command .76
10.24.2 Configure-Extended-DSFID response .77
10.25  Configure-Multiple-Records-Header .77
10.25.1 Configure-Multiple-Records-Header command .77
10.25.2 Configure-Multiple-Records-Header response .80
10.26  Read-Multiple-Records .80
10.26.1 Read-Multiple-Records command .80
10.26.2 Read-Multiple-Records response .81
10.27  Delete-Multiple-Record .82
10.27.1 Delete-Multiple-Record command .82
10.27.2 Delete-Multiple-Record response .83
11  Arguments .84
11.1  Add-Objects .84
11.2  DSFID-Constructs .85
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11.3  EPC-UIImemory . 85
11.4  Ext-DSFID-Constructs . 85
11.5  ISO-UIImemory . 87
11.6  Item-Related-Add-Objects . 87
11.7  Item-Related-DSFID-Constructs . 87
11.8  Multiple-Records-Constructs . 87
11.9  Multiple-Records-Directory-Structure . 89
11.10  Multiple-Records-Header-Structure . 89
11.11  Multiple-Records-Preamble-Structure . 90
11.12  Packed-Object-Constructs . 91
11.13  Read-Objects . 93
11.14  Read-Objects-Response . 93
11.15  Read-OIDs-Response . 93
11.16  UII-Add-Objects . 93
11.17  UII-DSFID-Constructs . 94
11.18  Write-Responses . 94
Annex A (informative) Abstract syntax and transfer encoding rules . 95
Annex B (informative) Accommodating established data formats . 104
Annex C (informative) Relating data Objects . 106
Annex D (informative) Data security issues . 108
Annex E (informative) Original commands and responses using ASN.1 abstract syntax . 110
Annex F (informative) Example of a transfer encoding to ISO/IEC 15961:2004 . 139
Bibliography . 142

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Foreword
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical
Commission) form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of
ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees
established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical activity. ISO and IEC
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and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO and IEC, also take part in the work. In the field of information
technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1.
International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
The main task of the joint technical committee is to prepare International Standards. Draft International
Standards adopted by the joint technical committee are circulated to national bodies for voting. Publication as
an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the national bodies casting a vote.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
ISO/IEC 15961-1 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology,
Subcommittee SC 31, Automatic identification and data capture techniques.
This first edition of ISO/IEC 15961-1, together with ISO/IEC 15961-2, ISO/IEC 15961-3 and ISO/IEC 15961-4,
cancels and replaces ISO/IEC 15961:2004, which has been technically revised.
ISO/IEC 15961 consists of the following parts, under the general title Information technology — Radio
frequency identification (RFID) for item management: Data protocol:
 Part 1: Application interface
 Part 2: Registration of RFID data constructs
 Part 3: RFID data constructs
The following part is under preparation:
 Part 4: Application interface commands for battery assist and sensor functionality

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Introduction
The technology of radio frequency identification (RFID) is based on non-contact electronic communication
across an air interface. The structure of the bits stored on the memory of the RFID tag is invisible and
accessible between the RFID tag and the interrogator only by the use of an air interface protocol, as specified
in the appropriate part of ISO/IEC 18000. The result of the transfer of data between an application and an
interrogator in open systems requires data to be encoded in a consistent manner on any RFID tag that is part
of that open system. This is not only to allow equipment to be interoperable, but in the special case of data
carriers, for the data to be encoded on the RFID tag in one systems implementation and to be read at a later
time in a completely different and unknown systems implementation. The data bits stored on each RFID tag
must be formatted in such a way as to be reliably read at the point of use if the RFID tag is to fulfil its basic
objective. This reliability is achieved through the specification of a data protocol in this part of ISO/IEC 15961
and the data encoding rules of ISO/IEC 15962. Additionally, ISO/IEC 24791-1 specifies a software system
infrastructure architecture that enables RFID system operations between business applications and RFID
interrogators. Specific parts of the infrastructure standards address data management requirements
(ISO/IEC 24791-2) and device interface requirements (ISO/IEC 24791-5). These support defined
implementations that incorporate the encoding rules of ISO/IEC 15962 and the functional rules of the
commands and responses in this part of ISO/IEC 15961.
Manufacturers of RFID equipment (interrogators, RFID tags, etc.) and users of RFID technology require
standards-based data protocols for RFID for item management. This part of ISO/IEC 15961, ISO/IEC 15962,
and ISO/IEC 24791 specify these protocols, which are layered above the air interface standards defined in
ISO/IEC 18000.
The transfer of data to and from an application, supported by appropriate application commands, is the
subject of this part of ISO/IEC 15961. The companion International Standard, ISO/IEC 15962, specifies the
overall process and the methodologies developed to format the application data into a structure to store on the
RFID tag.
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 15961-1:2013(E)

Information technology — Radio frequency identification (RFID)
for item management: Data protocol —
Part 1:
Application interface
1 Scope
This part of ISO/IEC 15961 focuses on the abstract interface between an application and the data processor,
and includes the specification and definition of application commands and responses. It allows data and
commands to be specified in a standardised way, independent of the particular air interface of ISO/IEC 18000.
This part of ISO/IEC 15961
 provides guidelines on how data shall be presented as objects;
 defines the structure of Object Identifiers, based on ISO/IEC 9834-1;
 specifies the commands that are supported for transferring data between an application and the radio
frequency identification (RFID) tag;
 specifies the responses that are supported for transferring data between the RFID tag and the
application;
 does not specify any required transfer syntax with ISO/IEC 15962, but provides the non-normative
information in Annex A to provide backward compatibility with ISO/IEC 15961:2004.
It is expected that this part of ISO/IEC 15961 will be used as a reference t
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