Square Tag

Session Topic: Square Tag (TH4E)

Convener: Sam Curren

Notes-taker(s): Sam Curren

Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered:

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

SquareTag - Thursday Session 4 Sam Curren



Issues/Opportunities moving forward:



Industry redirection/namespace organization - create an organization that handled providers going out of business, porting of tags to other providers, and global namespace


full JSONSchema support - lists of objects


Multi-owner scenarios - Data and access rights.


Public tag data - allowing the public to see/update portions of data


Monetization opportunities beyond tag purchase


Manufacturer involvement - data from the beginning


Signed/Certified information/records - ability to verify attributes/records present in a tag.


Media attachment - adding pictures and other encoded data.