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dsamarin | 1 year ago

We need to decentralize barcodes by treating product lookups as a URL, with metadata as query parameters. This way GS1 can operate much differently.

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RaftPeople|1 year ago

But the barcode is primarily encoding a unique handle to the item for purposes of communication between parties and systems (e.g. the thing that I just scanned as I placed it in the shipping container is thing X not thing Y).

It doesn't seem like a url is serving the same purpose, unless you are thinking that the url itself is the unique handle (and it's not actually used for a request, it's just a unique identifier).