Project 2094 - Information
technology - Smart Card Interoperability Technical Report
This technical report is a proposal
from the smart card industry through the INCITS
B10.9 ad-hoc group, to create an application profile for a smart card
interface using
existing and evolving standards that encompass both usage and
administration
commands in support of identity systems.
The proposed technical report addresses the need for greater
interoperability,
generalization to other applications than just PIV, and shorter
time-to-market for Smart
Card Identity Applications in the US, while maintaining a backward
compatibility with
PIV End Point Card Edge in its current version (NIST SP800-73-1).
This effort does not intend to create a new standard but is rather an
attempt to provide a
set of “best practices” basis for implementers with a carefully
selected subset of
ISO/IEC 7816 ADPU and recommendations and/or examples on how to use the
APDU
commands to perform the required functions.
The report uses the NIST Special Publication 800-73-1 end point Card
Edge as its
basis. The intent is to build upon this publication and broaden it to
address logical and
physical security applications for both corporate and government
markets, while
preserving backward compatibility with the heavy investment done
recently by the
Federal Government and the US industry in government identity
credentials.
The goal is to define a reference model flexible enough to be used by
identity
applications and consisting of a fixed set of commands that could be
used with multiple
application instances on a given card, each with their own name space
and specific
data model. It strives at providing a reference model for new identity
applications,