Refer to ISO/IEC 18975 rather than GS1 Digital Link?

Created by: philarcher

There are various references to GS1 Digital Link in the doc. For example on the opening page where it says "...Therefore, the UNTP defines a generalised protocol (based on GS1 digital link) to allow any identifier scheme (GS1 or otherwise) to be consistently resolvable..."

GS1 Digital Link itself is limited to GS1 IDs, However, ISO/IEC DIS 18975 offers a more general framework that covers two alternative high level URI structures and, optionally, tying those URIs to Linksets available via a resolver that reacts to the linkType parameter. GS1 Digital Link conforms to ISO/IEC 18975.

Caution ISO/IEC 18975 is currently a Draft International Standard with voting open until 2024-04-24. The expected path is that it will become a Final Draft International Standard later this year and a full standard in January 2025. Of course that timeline may not happen and comments received may result in significant changes.

Even so, it seems that the ISO/IEC standard is a better reference for UNTP except where the discussion is specifically about GS1 Digital Link. It might be appropriate in some places to talk about "identification and resolution schemes that conform to ISO/IEC 18975, such as GS1 Digital link"