ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 15459-6 Secondedition 2014-11-15 Information technology Automatic identification and data capture techniques Unique identification - Part 6: Groupings Technologies de I'information - Identification automatique et techniques de capture de données- Identification unique- Partie 6: Regroupements Reference number IS0/IEC 15459-6:2014(E) TE( International Organization for Standardization dardization 5956617 @IS0/IEC2014 ed without license from IHS IS0/IEC 15459-6:2014(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @IS0/IEC2014 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISOcopyrightoffice Case postale 56:CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyright@iso.org Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland Prganizationfor Standardization icene-zZhejang nsite f StandareRalS Ss6JEC 2014 - All rights reserved Not for Resale, 2015/5/14 05:05:10 etworking permitted without license from IHS IS0/IEC 15459-6:2014(E) Contents Page Foreword ..iv Introduction. 1 Scope. ..1 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions 4 Identities for individual entities ..2 5 Identities for grouping of entities .2 6 Identity for grouping of products, units and items .2 .2 6.1 General 6.2 Maximum number of characters permissible in a unique identity .2 6.3 Permissible character sets in an identity .3 7 Implementation of coding using AIDC media ..3 Annex A (informative) Groupings. ..4 Annex B (informative) Identities for groupings ..6 Annex C (informative) Use case for identities for groupings .8 Bibliography 10 iii vided by IHS under thout license from IHS