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Special [[TIN]]s are assigned by tango.info and tango.info-authorised parties. Special TINs are in the [[GTIN]] range ''0200 - 0299'', defined by the GTIN standards organisation ''GS1'' as ''Restricted distribution (GS1 MO defined)'' where MO means [national] member organisation. tango.info considers this range to be acceptable for use in TIN because the GTIN authority has designated them 'not for international use'. Currently the only GS1 numbers used by tango.info are in the 0248 range.
A special TIN is a [[TIN]] assigned by tango.info or a tango.info-authorised parties for the purpose of identifiying an item having no known GTIN (e.g. a music album having no barcode).
 
Special TINs are in the [[GTIN]] range ''0200 - 0299'', defined by the GTIN standards organisation ''GS1'' as ''Restricted distribution (GS1 MO defined)'' where MO means [national] member organisation. tango.info considers this range to be acceptable for use in TIN because the GTIN authority has designated them 'not for international use'. Currently the only GS1 numbers used by tango.info are in the 0248 range.


For a list containing many tango.info-assigned special TINs, see http://eng.tango.info/search?q=0248 . This search matches the embedded term, so may contain some false positives. It is not known if this list contains all tango.info-assigned specials TINs. At time of writing it contains no special TINs assigned by other parties.
For a list containing many tango.info-assigned special TINs, see http://eng.tango.info/search?q=0248 . This search matches the embedded term, so may contain some false positives. It is not known if this list contains all tango.info-assigned specials TINs. At time of writing it contains no special TINs assigned by other parties.


==code agreements==
==code agreements==
Each code agreement assign a range of TINs to a third party for assignment by that party to CD albums having no barcode.
A code agreement is an agreement between tango.info and a third party that designates a range of TINs for assignment by that third party to GTIN-less items.


Code agreement TINs are of the form 02480002'''9'''jkl2n, where "kl" are assigned by the third party and "n" is the checkdigit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_digit).
Code agreement TINs are of the form 02480002'''9'''jkl2n, where
* <tt>j</tt> distinguishes the agreement and is chosen by tango.info
* <tt>kl</tt> distinguishes the item and is chosen by the third party
* <tt>n</tt> is the [[TIN checkdigit checkdigit]]


==code examples==
==code examples==
In the tangocd.com code space 0248000291kl2n the first 10 codes are:
In the tangocd.com code agreement range 0248000291kl2n the first 10 codes are:


  02480002910022
  02480002910022

Revision as of 2008-03-29T17:14:49

A special TIN is a TIN assigned by tango.info or a tango.info-authorised parties for the purpose of identifiying an item having no known GTIN (e.g. a music album having no barcode).

Special TINs are in the GTIN range 0200 - 0299, defined by the GTIN standards organisation GS1 as Restricted distribution (GS1 MO defined) where MO means [national] member organisation. tango.info considers this range to be acceptable for use in TIN because the GTIN authority has designated them 'not for international use'. Currently the only GS1 numbers used by tango.info are in the 0248 range.

For a list containing many tango.info-assigned special TINs, see http://eng.tango.info/search?q=0248 . This search matches the embedded term, so may contain some false positives. It is not known if this list contains all tango.info-assigned specials TINs. At time of writing it contains no special TINs assigned by other parties.

code agreements

A code agreement is an agreement between tango.info and a third party that designates a range of TINs for assignment by that third party to GTIN-less items.

Code agreement TINs are of the form 024800029jkl2n, where

  • j distinguishes the agreement and is chosen by tango.info
  • kl distinguishes the item and is chosen by the third party
  • n is the TIN checkdigit checkdigit

code examples

In the tangocd.com code agreement range 0248000291kl2n the first 10 codes are:

02480002910022
02480002910121
02480002910220
02480002910329
02480002910428
02480002910527
02480002910626
02480002910725
02480002910824
02480002910923

ranges