New RFID Standard

During the past week, EPC Global Inc. announced the ratification of the royalty-free EPCglobal UHF Generation 2 candidate specification."Announcement Marks Culmination of Collaborative Process; Opens Door for Proliferation of Standards-Based Hardware to Drive EPC Implementations Worldwide"
InformationWeek headline on the topic reads :"EPCglobal's next-generation standard boosts read rate of RFID tags".
Silicon.com's article chooses to highlight the "royalties" aspect of the new Standard :"RFID standard escapes royalties".