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SLRRP BoF Overview
62nd IETF
Scott Barvick
[email protected]
Marshall Rose
[email protected]
Context-Setting Example
International
USA
Manufacturer
RFID
Tagged
Goods
Retail
Store
Manufacturer
Warehouse/DC
DC
Retail
Store
RFID
Tagged
Goods
Producer
Manufacturer
Producer
Supplier
Supplier
International
Logistics &
Shipping
Retail
Store
Domestic
Logistics
other
Distribution
other
Centers
(DC’s)
Distribution
Centers (DC’s)
DC
Retail
Store
Retail
Store
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Deployment Today
Manageable in small numbers...
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Deployment Tomorrow
Each reader can put
out 40x the RF power
of a Wifi access point...
What if all these IP
devices were on your
network...?
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SLRRP
• Simple Lightweight RFID Reader Protocol
– Goal to bring IP network-based RFID
operations into the IETF family for
standardization
– Proposal to start with control and data
access protocol (SLRRP) for scalable
infrastructure deployments
– Network management and operations to
follow
• Agenda includes presentations from RFID
and networking companies
Status Update
• Started WG exploration process in Oct ’04 with goal to
standardize RFID infrastructure operations based on
open, scalable networking principles.
• Established open, IETF-hosted mailing list in Nov ‘04
– currently 110+ members
– good mix of RFID, networking, applications, and
research companies
• ’01 version of initial I-D published containing updates
and the results of feedback on ’00 draft, but it is still just
the opening brain dump to get discussions going!
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Thanks!
See you at the BoF – Tuesday 1300
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Related Efforts
• ISO
– Produces RFID air protocol and data specs
– Data Access formats and interface specs
(ISO
15961, 15962) for ISO protocols only
– No networking specification for interfaces
• EPCGlobal
– 1+ year old consortium of users and vendors (spun from
MIT Auto-ID center)
– Produced ‘Gen2’ air protocol specification, submitted to ISO
– Producing web-service style interface specifications at all
levels of architecture including reader level (“Reader
Protocol and Reader Management”).
– RP/RM goals based on autonomous reader operation.
SLRRP goals focus on network infrastructure requirements of
large scale, interoperable deployments across air protocols;
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related efforts do not target nor meet those goals