2006 Annual Report
Covering the period from May 2005 to May 2006
INCITS B10 Identification Cards and Related Devices
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B10 Informal scope
Standardization in the area of cards and
related documents and devices associated with their use in
interindustry applications and international interchange. Specific
areas include physical characteristics, embossing, magnetic stripe
encoding, integrated circuit cards (with and without contacts), optical
memory cards, machine readable travel documents (passports and cards),
driver’s license, test methods, and other personal identification cards.
The majority of the B10 work consists of
international projects.
All international projects are developed
through ISO/JTC1 SC 17, Cards and Personal Identification. The
SC 17 Work Program and Business are available on the SC 17 website at http://www.sc17.com/:
ISO/JTC1 SC 17 2863
Work Program
ISO/JTC1 SC 17 2862
Draft Business Plan November 2005-October 2006
Please refer to the SC 17 reports for all
status regarding international projects.
Our ANSI/INCITS project list consists of two
projects under revision, two in maintenance, and one under development.
(see Annex A). A NWI for a TR
is in the works.
Development activity this past period was
again heavily weighted towards chip cards. Work on
interoperability and contactless technology consumed a large portion of
our efforts.
The
ISO/IEC 24727-1 and -2 are moving forward to
the FDIS level.
Activities in the contactless chip cards have
also increased following two major market activities. The
first being the effort on the biometrically enabled passports which
will be using a contactless chip technology. The
second is a push by major financial associations to utilize the
contactless technology for low value payments.
The work on ICAO 9303 is complete and should
begin the process of becoming the next revisions of the ISO/IEC 7501
per the agreement between ICAO and ISO. The
legislation on a biometrically enabled passport has significantly
increased our participation in this area.
We have released INCITS 410:2006 for Limited
Use Cards for use in the transportation market.
The revision of INCITS 284 Healthcare card
standard has been changed to reflect the addition of a 2-D bar code
symbology in response to industry requests. This
revision also required the update of the standard to include the latest
contactless card technology. This work continues to
be revised to synchronize the
Work on the international Driver’s license is
progressing with Part 1 at the FDIS level and Part 2 ready for FCD.
During this review period we completed
fifty-five international ballots on development work and New Work
Proposals.
A major re-write of ISO/IEC 7816 was
completed and many ISO/IEC 14443 amendments were completed for higher
bit rates.
Membership in B10 has increased by ten
companies to sixty eight over the reporting period. We
have dramatically increased our participation at the international
level in SC17 WG3, WG4, and WG8.
In the area of Contactless cards we recently
published a standard for a limited use smart card (INCITS 410:2006).
This standard covers a lower cost smart card for use in the
transportation market. It is intended to begin
replacing much of the magnetic stripe technology in this market.
Cards meeting this standard have already been rolled out in many
areas.
The B10.5 group has also supplied the
convener, Francis Christian to a new Task Force in WG8. This
TF has been established to deal with the test environment for
contactless IC’s.
B10.9 continued advancing the new suite of
smart card interoperability standards, ISO/IEC 24727:
Identification Cards – Integrated Circuit Cards Programming Interfaces.
ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 17/WG 4 Task Force 9 is responsible for this
body of work and chaired by the
The
ISO/IEC 24727-1: Identification Cards –
Integrated Circuit Cards Programming Interfaces: Architecture is approved to go forward for an FDIS ballot.
ISO/IEC 24727-2: Identification Cards –
Integrated Circuit Cards Programming Interfaces: Generic Card Interface
will launch as an FDIS ballot
in this reporting period.
A second CD ballot will launch for ISO/IEC
24727-3: Identification Cards – Integrated Circuit Cards Programming
Interfaces: Application Interface in October 2006. ISO/IEC
24727-3 provides the application programming interface. The
concepts in this standard require a greater learning curve by WG 4
participants since they are accustomed to dealing with ‘on-card’
commands rather that abstractions required by APIs that do not reside
on the card but rather on the host and client side.
Two additional work items have been approved
for ISO/IEC 24727- 4 and -5 (API interface and Testing). The
The European Union has
adopted ISO/IEC 24727 for its EU citizen card initiative and
At a national level,
B10.9 continues to concentrate on the Government work efforts, in
particular Federal standards for smart card based federal identity
credentials. They hope to leverage this work to develop interfaces at a
national level. B10.9 has also launched a proposal
to do a technical report that will make use of ISO/IEC 24727 with
applications that are currently in use in the
The FDIS for the international driver’s
license has been passed (ISO/IEC 18013 Part 1)
was published as an ISO Standard. ISO/IEC 18013-Part 1 establishes the
design format and data content of an ISO-compliant driving license
(IDL).
ISO/IEC
18013-Part 2 governing Machine Readable Technologies describes machine
readable attributes of an IDL and is still being edited and readied for
FCD.
The B10.6 work on the thin flexible card has
resulted in a new standard-ISO/IEC 15457-1 and -2 which are currently
out for FCD ballot.
WG3 has finalized a review of the ICAO 9303
document and it is ready to move to FDIS. There is
a lot of activity in the WG Task Forces to support all of the activity
around producing the biometric passports.
The year was challenged by the number of
international ballots that were required. Getting
active participation in letter ballots was difficult.
Although we see an increase in membership we
do not seem to have an increased level of actual contributions from
companies or technical experts.
Work on Card Durability in ISO (WG1 TF2) and
CEN appear to be in conflict. We need to find some
common ground to resolve the differences.
B10 TC and TG meetings are held in the same
week and place three times a year. The US
Registration Committee does not meet at every meeting.
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Meeting
Groups |
Date |
Location/Host |
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All |
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All |
January 30- |
San
Diego/Cubic/Atmel |
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All |
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Washington
DC/Oberthur/IDTP/G&D/Sharp |
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Meeting
Groups |
Date |
Location/Host |
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All |
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All |
January 2007
(TBD) |
TBD |
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All |
April/May
2007 (TBD) |
Minneapolis/TBD |
X12N, Liaison, Health Care Cards
Peter Barry
Open Security Exchange (OSE)
Gary Klinefelter, Fargo
7a. Plenary Officers
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Position |
Name/Organization |
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Chair |
Brian
Beech/Datacard |
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Vice Chair |
Patrick
Macy/Universal Air Travel Plan |
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Secretary |
Discover
Financial Services |
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International
Representative |
Discover
Financial Services |
Task Group Officers
B10.1
IC Cards with Contacts
Chair-Jim Russell, Mastercard International
US TAG to JTC1 SC 17 WG4
B10.3
Card Service Life
Chair-Brad Paulson, ICMA
Secretary, Simon Shepard, Dupont Teijin Films
Project Editor-Gene Meier, Datacard
US TAG to JTC1 SC 17 WG1 TF2
B10.3
Card Durability Task Force
Chair-Brad Paulson, ICMA
Secretary-Gene Meier, Datacard
PE-ANSI/INCITS 322, Kevin Tall, Eclipse
Laboratories
B10.5
Contactless IC Cards
Chair, Francis Christian, Atmel Corporation
US TAG to JTC1 SC 17 WG8
B10.6
Physical Characteristics
Chair-Arthur Bobrow, HW Sands
Secretary- Terry Schindler, Brush Industries
Project Editor- Denny Warwick, Datacard
US TAG to JTC1 SC 17 WG1
B10.8
Driver’s License
Chair-Vic Andelin, Digimarc ID Systems
Vice Chair-Geoff Slagle, Intellicheck
US TAG to JTC1 SC 17 WG10
B10.9
Application Program Interfaces and Smart Card Interoperability
Chair-Teresa Schwarzhoff, US Dept of
Commerce, NIST
Vice Chair-Gerry Smith, Sharp
Microelectronics of the
US TAG to JTC1 SC 17 WG4 TF9
USRC
Chair-Tina Fritz, Discover
US TAG to JTC1 SC 17 WG5
Other Officers
JTC1 SC 17 WG1/TF2 Convener
Felix Shvartsman, HID
JTC1 SC 17 WG3/TF1 Convener
Barry Kafauver, Fall Hill Associates
JTC1 SC 17 WG4/TF9 Convener
Teresa
Sally Seitz, ANSI Secretariat
Project Editor-Gerry Smith, Sharp
Microelectronics
Project Editor-Mike Neumann, StepNexus
Project Editor-Scott Guthery, Mobile-Mind
JTC1 SC 17 WG5 Convener
Patrick Macy, UATP
JTC1 SC 17 WG8/TF4 Convener
Francis Christian, Atmel
JTC1 SC 17 WG10 Convener
Geoff Slagle, Intellicheck
JTC1 SC 17 WG9 Secretariat
Christopher Dyball, Lasercard
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3M Company |
AAMVA |
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ActivIdentity |
American
Express |
|
American Bank
Note Holographics |
Apptis |
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Assa Abloy ITG |
Atmel
Corporation |
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Axalto |
BearingPoint |
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Brush
Industries |
Biometric
Associates |
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Boltaron
Performance Products |
CFC
International |
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Computer
Sciences Corporation |
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Cubic
Transportation Systems |
Datacard |
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DIC
International |
Digimarc ID
Systems |
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Discover Card |
Dupont Teijin
Films |
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Eclipse
Laboratories |
Exponent |
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Fall Hill
Associates |
|
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FCB LLC |
FM Group |
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First Data
Corporation |
Gemplus
Corporation |
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Giesecke
& Deverient |
Global
Platform |
|
H W Sands |
ID Technology
Partners |
|
Identity |
Infineon
Technologies |
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Innovative
Card Technology |
Intellicheck |
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ICMA |
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JCB
International |
Klockner
Plentaplast |
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Kurz Transfer
Products |
Lasercard
Corporation |
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Magtek |
Mastercard
International |
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US Dept of
Commerce, NIST |
Oberthur Card
Systems |
|
Peter T Barry |
Philips
Semiconductor |
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Plastag |
SAIC |
|
Security
Industry Association |
Sharp
Microelectronics |
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Sony
Electronics |
StepNexus |
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UATP |
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Unisys
Corporation |
US Dept of
Navy |
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US DoD-DMDC |
US DoD-DISA |
|
Visa
International |
Verifone |
|
Visage
Technology |
Waytek |
|
World Cell |
|
The trends we have seen over the last year
have not really changed from the previous year. The
pace has picked up, but the focus is the same.
The financial market place in the
The use of ISO 14443 is also being used in
the roll out of new “smart” passports and we also see many cities
rolling out contactless card transportation systems.
The second trend is the continuing increased
focus on smart card interoperability. This trend
was kicked off by the
A third trend is the increased need for
securer identity credentials, such as indicated by the US Government
activity in this area and the publication of the US Government Federal
Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201, Personal Identity
Verification of Federal Employees and Contractors.
We closed the voluntary special assessment
that was put into place to fund some data collection for the Card
Durability Task Force.
Brian Beech
Chairman, INCITS B10
ANNEX A
Status
of National INCITS Projects
INCITS Project:
402 - M
Standard Designation: INCITS 149:1986 [R2002]
Title: Financial Services - Financial Transaction Card Form sets - Location of Imprinted Information
Status-No Activity
INCITS Project:
436 - M
Standard Designation: INCITS 118:1998 [R2003]
Title: Personal Identification Number - PIN Pad (Revision of X3.118:1984)
Status-No Activity
INCITS Project:
1124 - R
Standard Designation: INCITS 284:1997 [R2004]
Title: Information technology - Identification card - Uniform Health Care Identification Card
Status-Under revision-Draft revision ready for public review
INCITS Project:
2011 - D
Title: Card Service Life and Card Durability Criteria for Financial Transaction Cards, Driver Licenses, and College Campus Cards
Status-Under development
INCITS Project:
1093 - R
Standard Designation: INCITS 322:2002 []
Title: Information technology - Card Durability Test Methods (Revision of INCITS 322:1998)
Status-Work underway. Expect draft for public review this fall.