VeriSign Wins RFID Contract

Published: April 01, 2004, By Edited by Deborah Donberg

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — VeriSign has been selected by EPCglobal, a not-for-profit standards organization, to operate the Object Naming Service (ONS) as the root directory for the EPCglobal Network.

The Network leverages the existing Internet infrastructure to create a low-cost, standards-based set of services for trading partners to use Radio Frequency Identification and the electronic product code to capture and share information on items throughout the supply chain.