Monday, March 10, 2008 at 1300-1500

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Chair(s):

   Mark Harrison <mark.harrison at cantab.net>

  Ted Hardie <hardie at qualcomm.com>

1. Agenda Bashing ( Mark Harrison ) [5 min]

2. Introduction to concept( Mark Harrison ) [15 min]

   • Questions regarding clarification [15 min]

3. Review of Problem Statement ( Michael Young ) [10 min]

   • Questions regarding clarification [10 min]

4. Expectations of deliverables ( Mark Harrison ) [15 min]

   • Questions regarding clarification [15 min]

5. Scope of work ( Mark Harrison ) [10 min]

   • Comments [15 min]

6. Next Steps and Action Items [10 min]

Reading List:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rezafard-esds-problem-statement-01.txt

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-young-esds-concepts-03.txt 

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-thompson-esds-commands-03.txt 

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-thompson-esds-schema-03.txt 

BOF Questions:

1) Is this an interesting problem to tackle?

2) Is the scope of work appropriate to the problem?

3) Is there support to form a work group with the following charter?
(i.e. that the charter itself is ready and supported by the community)

4) Can I ask for a show of hands for who is willing to review documents?

5) Do we have any additional volunteers as an editor for some of the document(s) to be produced by the work group?

Draft Working Group Charter:

The use of Supply chain Tracking Systems is rising at an unprecedented rate,

particularly as various industry sectors are increasingly adopting automatic

identification technologies such as Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) to

automatically track individual physical objects as they move through a supply

chain.  Rather than tracking at batch or lot level, the ultimate goal of this

technology is that each individual physical object will have its own unique ID,

which can be used to gather and retrieve complete lifecycle information about

the object, which is fragmented across the supply chain. Deployment of these

systems has grown to a point where they can no longer operate effectively in

isolation from other systems.  There is a need to share data among these

disparate systems, which are owned and operated by separate organizations.

ESDS has been chartered to architect and define the protocol of a  Discovery

Service for global supply chains. ESDS's goal is to enable searching for

information on physical objects flowing in a supply chain, by  authorized and

authenticated users.  Economic and technical factors dictate that  Discovery

Services and their protocol ESDS must be designed for deployment on the

Internet. Access control, data protection and security are of utmost

importance, due to sensitivity and value of the information generated  by the

supply chain.

Further Background Reading:

BRIDGE project - Requirements for Discovery Services

http://www.bridge-project.eu/data/File/BRIDGE%20WP02%20Serial%20level%20lookup%20Requirements.pdf

BRIDGE project - high-level design for Discovery Services

http://www.bridge-project.eu/data/File/BRIDGE%20WP02%20High%20level%20design%20Discovery%20Services.pdf