Official ID Types

[SusanCulpDVM]

Comment at Wednesday, August 31, 2022 eCVI Data Standards Workgroup meeting that there is confusion about Official ID (and Other ID) in the schema. Request for eCVI Data Standards Workgroup to re-evaluate what is listed in the schema to determine if changes may be indicated.

[SusanCulpDVM]

https://github.com/AAVLD-USAHA-ITStandards/eCVI/blob/96ad415de93bcd4c124e53fdf8ebe4b204765daa/ecvi2.xsd#L869-L960

[rmunger]

I'm not sure why for manufacturer encoded rfid 900 is excluded but 999 appears to be allowed. If you look at the ICAR website you will find the 900 prefix is shared by multiple manufacturers (each assigned a series of numbers within 900) and can be tracked as any other manufacturer encoded devices. The more concerning issue is the apparent allowance of 999 prefixed tags which is a reserved series for testing and experimental usage by anyone, these are even found on collars used at some dairies to track milk production and are reused on different animals. A 999 prefixed tag is the equivalent to a management ID without any assurance of uniqueness.

RFID devices for Conformance certification: Ear tags / Tag attachments / Boluses | ICARhttps://www.icar.org/index.php/rfid-tags/

My other concern is that allowing 840, 124 and 484 prefixed IDs make perfect sense for cattle/bison but what about horses? It is my experience that horses entering the US have many different country coded implants (Spain, Netherlands, Germany...). Is there any thought or discussion on how to support a much wider variety of prefixes where necessary?

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[ryanscholzdvm]

@rmunger, I think that there may be a misprint in the documentation for the MfrRFID. If you continue down further to the MfrRFIDType (where the reges is included), it actually does enforce exactly what you are suggesting- it allows 900-998.

I would propose that we correct the documentation to reflect that it allows 900 series prefixes, excluding 999.

For the other portion of your comment regarding other state prefixes, I remember the discussion where these prefixes were included (I'll have to go back and see if I can find the issue), and I remember the decision being made to include them here rather than as an AIN, but I don't remember why only the two prefixes were added. I suppose it is probably similar to the issue of the state codes on NUES tags and we just need to expand the RegEx to include all of the possibilities. It looks like the list you provided includes all of the 900 series assignments, but do you have a link to the list of the country code prefixes (I'm assuming it is probably in the ISO standard?)

[ryanscholzdvm]

A second link that includes the tag type list for other official ID, and the RegEx for the defined official ID types is:

https://github.com/AAVLD-USAHA-ITStandards/eCVI/blob/96ad415de93bcd4c124e53fdf8ebe4b204765daa/ecvi2.xsd#L1043-L1152

[mkm1879]

These regular expressions can be very hard to read, even for those who know regular expression language. Anything to improve the documentation will surely help.

[ryanscholzdvm]

This topic probably needs more discussion. We currently have 124 and 484 tag prefixes listed as acceptable in both the AIN and the MfrRFIDType RegEx. They are probably not appropriate to have listed in the MfrRFIDType, but @rmunger point, if we are going to list those two additional prefixes in AIN, should we also be listing all of the other potential country prefixes? The other option if we want to keep that AIN RegEx cleaner, is to create an additional International AIN type that could be utilized for AIN ID that is not 840 prefix, but is still a valid AIN. You could either do this in a defined type with a RegEx, or as a type option within OtherOfficialID (which would probably make more sense as the potential list gets very long.)

[jconlon]

Would suggest we open two separate issues to address the doc problem and the new internationalRFID type.

[ryanscholzdvm]

This issue was split into two new issues to enable better tracking - #78 will address the correction of the MfrRFID tag type documentation, while #79 will address the creation of a new international AID tag type.

[SusanCulpDVM]

Included in Release Version 3.0 Update. Discussed with eCVI Workgroup on January 24, 2024. All agreed to resolve and close this issue.