Standardization of the identification number,
so that it can be read by the many different readers
used by organizations in different parts of the
supply chain, started at the Auto-ID Center at MIT,
and is now being pursued by EPCglobal Inc, an
industry consortium that aims to standardize the
format of the EPC, electronic product code for use
in RFID tags. The current proposal is illustrated
in Figure 1 and consists of three parts