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 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 to develop software appropriate for particular applications, or for particular RFID equipment. NOTE: Conventionally in International Standards, long numbers are separated by a space character as a "thousands separator". This convention has not been followed in this part of ISO/IEC 15961, because the arcs of an Object Identifier are defined by a space separator (according to ISO/IEC 8824 and ISO/IEC 8825). As the correct representation of these arcs is vital to this part of ISO/IEC 15961, all numeric values have no space separators except to denote a node between two arcs of an Object Identifier.