19-04-06 10:16
Age: 2 yrs

BY: UO, YOJIRO; KAWAKITA, YUUSUKE; HADA, HISAKAZU; NAKAMURA, OSAMU; MURAI, JUN

With the power of the Auto-ID related technologies, every physical object can be identified with a unique identifier when an Auto-ID tag is attached to the object. The identifier can be related to a set of information which is very likely representing semantics or attributes of the object. Combined together, they can be viewed as a single logical object accessible and identifiable on a space by a computer network like the Internet. This model is realized by the Auto-ID Center’s basic architecture of the software: Savant and ONS. On the other hand, the Internet employed a new version of protocol called IPv6 and becomes ready to connect on-computer elements. This environment is strongly demanded for implementing ubiquitous computing where relationships between the context of the real world and an object is discussed. Thus, the Internet is binding the logical virtual space (sometimes called cyber space) and the real space context. We call it as the real space networking environment. This paper is intentionally views the software architecture around Auto-ID from a standpoint of the Internet architecture and its future real space networking. The focal point of the discussion in this white paper is the name space design and operational issues for real space related object.

<- Back to: Publications