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 four of its member have been recognized by the INCITS Award
committee. Walt Bonneau and Kevin Tall received the INCITS Service Award and
Francis Christian and Gene Meier 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