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People here seem to think that this is someone's weekend project, not the result of serious engineering from an institute of the Fraunhofer Society (which it is

by pygy_ 8y ago

People here seem to think that this is someone's weekend project, not the result of serious engineering from an institute of the Fraunhofer Society (which it is). The spec can be found at https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Publications/TechnicalGuidelines/TR03137/BSITR03137.html https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Publications/TechnicalGuidelines/... (63 pages, the BSI is the German Federal Office for Information Security, a government agency), and this is slated to become an ISO standard. Here's the Google translation (original in German provided somewhere else by @JdeBP) of an article introducing the tech: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ident.one%2Fde%2F2018%2F07%2F30%2Fjust-another-barcode-jab-code%2F https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=auto&tl=en&u... I agree with others that the master/slave terminology is unfortunate in new tech like this. Otherwise this looks pretty good.

dsl 8y ago
So it is some research institutes weekend project. The process of making something an ISO standard is not as rigorous as IETF or IEEE. ISO has over 250 technical committees, cranking out useless standards all the time. Most members vote to approve whatever comes down the pipe if it doesn't impact them directly. Looking closer at the spec you linked, it is tacked on to a standard for visual checksumming of printed documents. It isn't even moving forward on its own merits as a reasonable 2D barcode implementation.
- jake_the_third 8y ago
  I've just skimmed over the both specifications and haven't noticed anything that would indicate that this is a "weekend project". In fact, I'm impressed enough that I might work on an implementation in my preferred language (assuming a decent testing dataset is available). What exactly are the technical issues that make you dismiss this project so harshly?

by pygy_ 8y ago

dsl 8y ago

So it is some research institutes weekend project. The process of making something an ISO standard is not as rigorous as IETF or IEEE. ISO has over 250 technical committees, cranking out useless standards all the time. Most members vote to approve whatever comes down the pipe if it doesn't impact them directly. Looking closer at the spec you linked, it is tacked on to a standard for visual checksumming of printed documents. It isn't even moving forward on its own merits as a reasonable 2D barcode implementation.

jake_the_third 8y ago
I've just skimmed over the both specifications and haven't noticed anything that would indicate that this is a "weekend project". In fact, I'm impressed enough that I might work on an implementation in my preferred language (assuming a decent testing dataset is available). What exactly are the technical issues that make you dismiss this project so harshly?