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Appendix A. NFC Specification Codes

There are a number of NFC Specification codes that you might use frequently. They’re all available in the NFC Specification on the NFC Forum site, but some of them are reproduced here for handy reference.

The NFC Forum Specification list provides handy summary definitions of all the NFC specifications. When you find yourself struggling to remember what acronyms such as LLCP, SNEP, TNF, and RTD mean, go to this page for the quick reference.

Table A-1. Type name formats

Type Name Format	Value
Empty	0x00
Well-Known type [NFC RTD]	0x01
MIME media-type [RFC 2046]	0x02
Absolute URI [RFC 3986]	0x03
External type [NFC RTD]	0x04
Unknown	0x05
Unchanged	0x06
Reserved	0x07

Table A-2. Common record type definitions

Record Type	RTD code
Text	T
URI	U
Smart Poster	Sp
Alternative Carrier	ac
Handover Carrier	Hc
Handover Request	Hr
Handover Select	Hs

Table A-3. URI identifier codes

Decimal	Hex	Protocol
0	0x00	None. The URI is added exactly as written.
1	0x01	http://www.
2	0x02	https://www.
3	0x03	http://
4	0x04	https://
5	0x05	tel:
6	0x06	mailto:
7	0x07	ftp://anonymous:anonymous@
8	0x08	ftp://ftp.
9	0x09	ftps:/
10	0x0A	sftp://
11	0x0B	smb://
12	0x0C	nfs://
13	0x0D	ftp://
14	0x0E	dav://
15	0x0F	news:
16	0x10	telnet://
17	0x11	imap:
18	0x12	rtsp://
19	0x13	urn:
20	0x14	pop:
21	0x15	sip:
22	0x16	sips:
23	0x17	tftp:
24	0x18	btspp://
25	0x19	btl2cap://
26	0x1A	btgoep://
27	0x1B	tcpobex://
28	0x1C	irdaobex://
29	0x1D	file://
30	0x1E	urn:epc:id:
31	0x1F	urn:epc:tag:
32	0x20	urn:epc:pat:
33	0x21	urn:epc:raw:
34	0x22	urn:epc:
35	0x23	urn:nfc:
36…255	0x24.,0xFF	Reserved for future use. (URI will be saved exactly ...