This update will primarily impact solution providers and supply chain actors that use proprietary/internally developed traceability solutions. These solutions will need to be updated to support the JSON-LD data format if they do not already support it.
We do not anticipate that this update will be burdensome for GDST stakeholders. Many solutions are already using JSON and will require minimal updates to their systems. In fact, the EPCIS standard (and the GDST Standard by extension) was updated to reflect industry demand and the widespread use of JSON. For those that do not currently support JSON, open-source tools developed by the GDST are being made available to ease the transition.