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 "title": "What Changes When Product Identity Becomes a Join Key for External Data?",
 "description": "See how stable product identity joins weather, recall, retailer and market data to make contextual decisions without turning the passport into a database.",
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 "direct_answer": "A stable product identity does not need to contain every fact that could ever matter. It can act as a **join key**: software identifies the product, fetches the outside context needed for the decision, applies an explicit rule or model and then takes a bounded action.",
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   "name": "GS1-Conformant Resolver Standard 1.2.1: current mechanism for resolving GS1 identifiers to multiple linked resources while keeping the identifier stable."
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   "url": "https://ref.gs1.org/standards/digital-link/uri-syntax/1.7.0/",
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   "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation/",
   "name": "W3C Geolocation: establishes the critical boundary that browser geolocation describes the hosting device, not automatically the physical product being scanned."
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   "url": "https://www.w3.org/news/2025/the-verifiable-credentials-2-0-family-of-specifications-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation/",
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   "name": "CARFAX History-Based Value: deployed vertical example of item identity joining lifecycle history and market factors into an item-specific valuation."
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   "url": "https://www.carfaxforlenders.com/products/history-based-value/",
   "name": "CARFAX for Lenders, History-Based Value: evidence that the resulting valuation is used in real lending and remarketing decisions."
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