Glossary: Ubiquitous ID Center

A standards group in Japan promoting an alternative to EPC. Apparently, the motivation includes what it perceives as US dominance of EPC and the restricted nature of the EPC concept. uID can even be used to "tag" lines of software code, they say. uIC is backed by 170 companies, nearly all of them Japanese. uIC expects to have compliant tags available for purchase in 2004.