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How Afilias Discovery Services Works

Overview of implementing Afilias Discovery Services in a supply chain network

Within a supply chain network, partners use their respective internal business applications to capture life cycle data for products and services, which includes detailed information about the events and transactions that occur in a business process. This stored data enables partners to make business decisions within their own organizations. However, to communicate effectively with one another, supply chain members need a mechanism that enables them to share relevant data in a secure and selective manner.

Afilias Discovery Services (ADS) leverages an open, web services protocol called the Extensible Supply-chain Discovery Service (ESDS) and provides a complementary Object Naming Service (ONS) that is compliant with EPCglobal standards (www.epcglobalinc.org ).

Afilias Discovery Services Pilots

Afilias is offering an ADS Pilot Program to companies interested in testing this new technology. Afilias will provide a toolkit and an open testing environment based on the ESDS open protocol, which is currently in the submission process to the Internet Engineering Task Force www.IETF.org .

ADS Pilot Participant Requirements

Organizations wishing to test the deployment of Afilias Discovery Services need to meet qualifications such as:

Afilias Discovery Services white papers

  • Afilias Internet of Things White Paper | [file] Afilias Internet of Things White Paper | | .pdf | 11/08/08 | 829.44 KB
    The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved using standards that are based in part on DNS design and utilize the Internet to support aspects of IoT services. The new IoT architecture currently consists of ONS (root service), EPCIS (standardized interface for data exchange) and Discovery Service (secure and selective visibility of event data). This paper puts forward an architectural approach to ONS that addresses these questions and could serve as a model for a decentralized and interoperable IoT root system. It provides a model for localized ONS that could support a multiplicity of IoT networks and further clarifies the respective functions of Discovery Services.

Afilias Releases Proposal For "Internet of Things" Architecture In Advance of EU Meeting

Oct 6, 2008

Decentralized, local ONS and Discovery Services model highlighted in new white paper

NICE, FRANCE - 6 October 2008 - Today, at the Internet des Objets, Internet du Futur Conference, Afilias released a white paper that details a decentralized and interoperable model for implementation of Object Naming Services (ONS) and supporting Discovery Services. This model is intended as one solution to an international debate on the potential problems associated with a single, authoritative ONS system and to promote the widespread adoption of Internet of Things technology for track-and-trace and supply chain management.