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Appendix D: Deprecated and Modified Commands
Where a Mask bit is specified as “L,” a “1” in that bit indicates that the corresponding bit in 
the Action field is set or cleared. A “0” indicates that the corresponding bit in the Action 
field should be ignored. 
Where an Action bit is specified as “R/W,” a “1” indicates that reading and writing should 
be locked. A “W” indicates that only writing should be locked. 
Note
Adding ‘0000’ in the
Action
field unlocks the memory bank.
A “Perm” bit sets the permalock state of the corresponding “R/W” or “W” bit, which 
permanently programs the lock status of that bit on the tag. An Action bit has no effect 
unless the corresponding Mask bit is set. An “X” in the above table indicates an ignored 
bit. For more detailed information about these fields, please refer to the Gen2 
specification.
A tag whose access password is zero transitions directly from the acknowledged state to 
the secured state without first stopping in the open state. No password check is required. 
In other words, locking a tag has no effect if its access password is set to zero (unless it is 
permalocked). The access password can be set using the Write Tag Data command.
Kill Tag (26h)
The Kill Tag command kills a tag. Since each protocol has a different format for the kill 
command, this is highly protocol dependent. As each new kill command becomes 
available, the message structure will be documented in this section.
For the GEN2 protocol, the following command format is used.
First Byte (0x11 above)
Second Byte (0x22 above)
Bit
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Unused
Kill Pwd
Access Pwd
EPC Mem
TID Mem
User Mem
Mask
X
X
X
X
X
X
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
Actio
n
X
X
X
X
X
X
R/W
Perm
R/W
Perm
W
Perm
W
Perm
W
Perm
