A method for providing an interconnection relationship between a product
and a desired location on a global communications network. A machine
readable product code is disposed on the product machine readable product
code, the machine readable product code having encoded product
information contained therein. The product code has no routing
information embedded therein which would allow the product code, in and
of itself, to cause routing to the desired location over any path on the
network. The machine readable code is read and decoded. The extracted
product code is then converted for routing information over the network
to the desired location, which routing information defines the manner by
which a user or a computer at a user location wherein the machine
readable code was read can communicate with the desired location via an
interconnection therewith.