Update on ISO 28560-2 – 14 March 2018

An inconsistency has been reported between ISO 28560-2 and the ISO/IEC 15961-2 register for Data Constructs and has now being fixed in ISO 28560-2. The correction will appear in a revised edition of the standard.

The issue was that the Root-OID in ISO 28560-2 was wrong, whereas it was correct in ISO/TS 28560-4. The correct Root-OID is 1  0  15961  6.  As a result Clauses 7.2.4 and 7.2.5 have been corrected.

Impact Assessment: Low to negligible. The current software implementations of ISO 2856-2 do not use the full Object Identifier structure, because of the traditional interfaces to the LMS / ILS back-end system. Current systems just depend on the Relative-OID, which is encoded in the RFID tag, to distinguish between data elements.

The change needs to be made to ensure that future systems, different from the present implementations, can use the full Object Identifier, as is already possible with ISO/TS 28560-4.

During the process to correct this, a publication error by ISO was discovered in ISO 28560-2:2014. Table C.3 is missing, although it was in the original 2011 version, and correctly submitted to ISO for publication. The table is reproduced below:

Table C.3 — Byte string for ISIL DE-Heu1