2007 Annual Report
Covering the period from May 2006 to May 2007
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 inter industry applications and international interchange.
Specific areas include physical characteristics, embossing, magnetic
stripe
encoding, integrated circuit cards (with and without contacts), optical
memory
cards, interoperability interfaces, 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 3074 Work Program
ISO/JTC1
SC 17 3075
Draft
Business Plan November 2006-October 2007
Please
refer to the SC 17 reports for all status regarding international
projects.
Our
INCITS project list consists of two projects under development.
One of
these is in the Card Durability Test Methods and the second in the area
of
Smart Card Interoperability.
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 is completed and available for
purchase. ISO/IEC 24727-2 and -3 are
nearing FDIS level. The work items for ISO/IEC 24727-4 and -5 were
approved at
a later date than that of the first three parts. ISO/IEC 24727-4
launched the
first CD ballot this reporting period and results will be available in
the next
reporting period. ISO/IEC 24727-5 is at
WD. This final part deals with testing and consequently is somewhat
dependent
on the maturity of the other parts before progressing to CD. A CD is
anticipated
in early spring of 2008.
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. (Mastercard/EMVco)
A
major revision of ISO/IEC 14443 was undertaken this past year to
incorporate
all of the changes that became apparent with “real world” application
of
contactless technology. An expansion of
this standard was also needed to include several different higher bit
rates on
the communication protocol.
The
work on ICAO 9303 is complete. This
document has an ISO/IEC counterpart
ISO/IEC 7501, which is currently out for FDIS ballot per the agreement
between
ICAO and ISO. The legislation on a biometrically enabled passport
has
significantly increased our participation in this area.
The
initial meetings of the newly formed SC 17 workgroup, WG 11 – Biometric
Match
on Card, continue to occur. B10
representation is limited.
The
revision of INCITS 284 Healthcare card standard was made to
reflect the addition of a 2-D bar code
symbology in response to industry requests. This revision also
required updating
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 ISO/IEC
18013- 1 published
and Part 2 at FCD, and Part 3 nearing FCD approval.
B10.3
has completed the resolution of comments on the revision of INCITS 322
and it
will be going out for public review shortly.
The revision included documented precision and bias statements
for
several test methods. The document
remains a test method standard and does not include any requirements or
specifications for compliance.
B10.3 has also completed a Card Service life
document. It is an empirical approach to
predict card durability, defining categories of card applications and
identifying appropriate test results for cards in those categories. While the future revisions will most likely
refine the categories and specifications, variations of this approach
are
currently used in the industry. It will
also be going out for public review.
A new project was proposed in the Card
Durability
Test Methods area that involves a restructure of the test methods into
components -- stress or preconditioning methods and measurement or
evaluation
methods. Combinations of stress and
evaluation methods, such as card flexure followed by inspection for
fractures,
would be included in an annex at the end of the document.
The proposal also includes additional text
and figures to clarify the laboratory technique or improve measurements. A rough draft has been submitted to the
working group.
Work also continues on the ISO Card
Durability
standard. There has been much discussion
on how to approach this topic between different national bodies, but a
CD should
come out of the June WG1 meeting.
During
this review period, we did complete thirty-nine international ballots
on
development work and one New Work Proposal.
Membership
in B10 has decreased by five companies to sixty-three over the
reporting period.
We continue to have a high level of participation at the
international
level in SC17 WG1, 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 was established to deal with the test
environment
for contactless IC’s. TF2 is addressing the interoperability
challenges
introduced by the ambiguities in ISO/IEC 14443.
The work is very relevant, in particular for travel documents.
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 has
been
finalized and is available for purchase.
ISO/IEC
24727-2: Identification Cards – Integrated Circuit Cards Programming
Interfaces: Generic Card Interface will
launch as an FDIS ballot in this reporting period. Significant
technical progress has been made,
most notably national body concurrence of a single programming language
for
translation scripts that are required by the ISO/IEC 24727 architecture. This significantly improves and simplifies
the interoperability goal.
A first FCD,
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.
Results of
this ballot will be provided in the next reporting period.
A
second CD or first FCD will launch on ISO/IEC 24727-4:
Identification Cards
– Integrated Circuit Cards Programming Interfaces: API administration in October 2006. Part 5 includes
the necessary elements of a
secure credential architecture and is technically complex.
National body concurrence will be
challenging.
A more detailed WD for the final part, ISO/IEC 24727-5: Identification Cards – Integrated Circuit Cards Programming Interfaces: Testing, will be available in late 2007 and progress will be reported in next year’s annual report.
The
European Union has adopted ISO/IEC 24727 for its EU citizen card
initiative and
At a
national level, B10.9 continues to consider Government work efforts, in
particular Federal standards for smart card based federal identity
credentials,
with the hope to leverage this work to develop interoperability
interfaces at a
national level. B10 approved a B10.9
proposal for 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
18013-1 establishes the design format and data content of an
ISO-compliant
driving license (IDL).
ISO/IEC
18013-2
governing Machine Readable Technologies describes machine readable
attributes
of an IDL, has moved to FCD status .
A
new standard, ISO/IEC 15457-1 and -2 Thin Flexible Card ,has been
published.
WG3
has finalized a review of the ICAO 9303 document and it is out for FDIS
balloting. There is a lot of activity in the WG Task Forces to
support
all of the involvement with production
of 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.
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.
|
Meeting
Groups |
Date |
Location/Host |
|
All |
|
San
Francisco/Visa/Kurz |
|
All |
|
|
|
All |
April
30-May3, 2007 |
Minneapolis/Datacard/HID/3M/Eclipse
Labs |
|
Meeting
Groups |
Date |
Location/Host |
|
All |
|
|
|
All |
January 2008
(TBD) |
Carson/Magtek |
|
All |
April/May
2008 (TBD) |
TBD |
X12N,
Liaison, Health Care Cards
Peter
Barry
Open
Security Exchange (OSE)
Gary
Klinefelter, HID
7a.
Plenary Officers
|
Position |
Name/Organization |
|
Chair |
Brian
Beech/Datacard |
|
Vice Chair |
Patrick
Macy/Universal Air Travel Plan |
|
Secretary |
Discover
Financial Services |
|
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-Gene
Meier, Datacard Project
Editor-Gene Meier, Datacard
PE-ANSI/INCITS
322, Kevin Tall, Eclipse Laboratories
B10.3
Card Durability Task Force
Chair-Brad
Paulson, ICMA
B10.5
Contactless IC Cards
Chair,
Francis Christian, Atmel Corporation
US
TAG to JTC1 SC 17 WG8
B10.6
Physical Characteristics
Chair-Terry
Schindler, Brush Industries
Secretary-
Brad Paulson, ICMA
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
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
Project
Editor- Tim Jurgensen, IdentityAlliance
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
|
3M Company |
AAMVA |
|
ActivIdentity |
American
Express |
|
American Bank
Note Holographics |
Apptis |
|
Atmel
Corporation |
BearingPoint |
|
Brush
Industries |
Biometric
Associates |
|
Boltaron
Performance Products |
CFC
International |
|
Computer
Sciences Corporation |
|
|
Cubic
Transportation Systems |
Datacard |
|
Digimarc ID
Systems |
Discover Card |
|
Dupont Teijin
Films |
Eclipse
Laboratories |
|
Exponent |
Fall Hill
Associates |
|
FCB LLC |
FM Group |
|
Gemalto
Corporation |
Giesecke
& Deverient |
|
Global
Platform |
HID |
|
H W Sands |
ID Technology
Partners |
|
Identity |
Infineon
Technologies |
|
Innovative
Card Technology |
Intellicheck |
|
ICMA |
|
|
JCB
International |
Klockner
Plentaplast |
|
Kurz Transfer
Products |
Lasercard
Corporation |
|
Magtek |
Mastercard
International |
|
US Dept of
Commerce, NIST |
Oberthur Card
Systems |
|
Peter T Barry |
NXP |
|
Plastag |
SAIC |
|
Security
Industry Association |
Sharp
Microelectronics |
|
Sony
Electronics |
StepNexus |
|
|
UATP |
|
Unisys
Corporation |
|
|
US DoD-DMDC |
US DoD-DISA |
|
Visa
International |
Verifone |
|
Visage
Technology |
Waytek |
|
World Cell |
|
*Membership
list
from INCITS database
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.
B10
is happy to announce two of its member have been recognized by the
INCITS Award
committee. Walt Bonneau received the
INCITS Service Award and Francis Christian received the INCITS Merit
Award.
B10 has
reservations on the recently announced INCITS rule requiring an
eight-month
notification on hosting international meetings.
This is counter intuitive to the
Brian
Beech
Chairman, INCITS B10