Are Radio Frequency IDs poised to become more ubiquitous?
I believe so. They’re successful in toll road applications. We’re hearing some interesting problems. There’s a US company called Tyson Foods (www.tysonfoodsinc.com) that is a large shipper of poultry, pork and beef. They told us they’d tried some experiments with reading these RFID chips linked to chickens. Each individual chicken was readable but when they put all the chickens in a container, they couldn’t get back all the individual RFID information. Some of the signal has to pass through the chickens and, as chickens are about 80% water, the radio signal doesn’t propagate through water very well. This is a serious problem if we want to tag the food in our stores so it doesn’t go over its shelf-life. Would a weblog be a good addition to Cerfs Up? I get some help with Cerfs Up and I try to put in book reports and bring up topics I think would be useful. As for weblogging, I haven’t got there yet. As chairman of the board of ICann, my opinions on some issues ought to be carefully expre
