What's next?
The Auto-ID Center is focused on creating standards and the basic software needed to create a new network for tracking items using low-cost RFID tags. Through the end of 2003, we will be publishing a series of detailed technical specifications and documentation to enable vendors to create and develop related products and services. We will also be developing some of the network architecture to the point where it is ready to be used and commercialized by industry. By the end of 2003, we will have enabled vendors and users to start investing in EPC-related technology with reasonable assurance that the technology works, that there are compelling commercial reasons to do so, and that the public will be comfortable with the technology.