B10.6 Web Site

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ANSI/INCITS B10.6 Task Group,

ID Card Standards

B10.6 General Information

On 1 December 2007, InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Task Groups B10.3 Card Durability and related Test Methods and B10.6 Physical Characteristics, Magnetic Stripes, and Test Methods were merged to form INCITS Task Group B10.11 Physical Characteristics. The INCITS B10.11 Task Group assumed responsibility for standardization in:

ID Card Physical Characteristics
Magnetic stripes:

Low Coercivity
High Coercivity
High Coercivity /High Density
Savings Passbook magnetic stripes

Embossing
Thin Flexible Cards
Test methods for measuring compliance to the above standards

All of B10.6 's work is International in scope as it is the US TAG to ISO/IEC_JTC1 SC17 ID Cards and personal identification, Working Group 1 (WG1)

B10.6, Task Group, whose Parent Group is INCITS_B10, is organized as follows:

Work Description (Note 3)	Task Group / Task Force (Note 1)	ISO/IEC JTC1 SC 17 Working Group
Physical, ISO/IEC 7810	B10.6	WG1
Embossing: ISO/IEC 7811-1 ISO/IEC 7811-9 Tactile Identification Mark (TIM) (note 5)	B10.6	WG1
Magnetic Stripe, ISO/IEC 7811-2 Low Coercivity ISO/IEC 7811-6 High Coercivity ISO/IEC 7811-7 High Coercivity, High Density Encoding ISO/IEC 7811-8 Medium Coercivity (650 Oe) (note 4)	B10.6	WG1
Test Methods, (Note 2) ISO/IEC 10373-1 Physical ISO/IEC 10373-2 Magnetic Stripes	B10.6	WG1
Thin Flexible Cards ISO/IEC 15457-1 Physical ISO/IEC 15457-2 Magnetic Stripe ISO/IEC 15457-3 Test Methods	B10.6	WG1
Coexistent Technologies ISO/IEC JTC1 SC17 Standards Summary	B10.6	WG1

Notes:
1.	B10.6 has formed Task Forces in the past for projects such as Card Durability Test Methods, Thin Flexible Cards, and High Coercivity Magnetic stripes. These task Forces have been disbanded when the project was completed, although Card Durability Task Force was transferred to B10.3 in 2000. There are no B10.6 task forces at this time.
2.	Test method developments are limited to those necessary to measure compliance to minimum requirements specified in the base standards. Refer to B10.3 for Card Durability Test Methods
3.	Published standards can be obtained through ANSI.org_Purchase Standards or INCITS_Standards Store
4.	New Work Proposal has been approved in 2005, currently in Final Committee Draft (FCD) status
5.	New Work Proposal has been approved in 2006, currently in Working Draft (WD) status

B10.6 Officers

Chairman: Terry Schindler, Brush Industries
Secretary: Brad Paulson, Thor Engineering
Project Editor: Denny Warwick, DataCard

Honor Roll

Membership

Membership Directory (password required)

How to Join B10.6 :

Standards

Refer to SC17 Work_Programme for the status of WG1 standards

Refer to SC17 Standards Summary for information on all SC17 Standards and Procedures. This free document contains tables showing relationships between all SC17 standards, the scope of all SC17 standards, and discusses the general concepts of procedures used to develop SC 17 standards. A useful document for anyone involved in Identification cards and related devices.

Published standards can be obtained through ANSI.org_Purchase Standards or INCITS_Standards Store

Annual Report

INCITS B10.6 does not publish a separate annual report, however, its activities are described in the INCITS B10 Annual report which covers the period from May 2006 through May 2007.

Meetings

INCITS B10.6 Task Group generally meets three times per year, January, April/May and August. The B10.6 Meeting is generally scheduled to take place on the Wednesday prior to B10 Plenary meeting, which normally is held on Thursday.

Meeting Calendar	2007	2008
Winter	17 January, Carson, California	30 January, Carson, California
Spring	2 May, Minneapolis, Minnesota	April/May, Columbus, Ohio
Summer/Fall	22 August, Washington, D. C.	TBA

Venue details are posted below 2 to 3 months prior to the next meeting

Documents

B10.6 Physical Characteristics/Magnetic Stripes (Task Group)	SC17/WG1 (Working Group)
B10.6 Meeting Minutes
B10.6 2007 Documents	WG1 2007 Documents
B10.6 2006 Documents
B10.6 2005 Documents
B10.6 2004 Documents
B10.6 2003 Documents

Documents are available directly from the index, some documents are password protected.

Next Meeting

When

Next meeting - 30 January 2008 at 8:00 am

Where

Location - The next B10 Plenary and subcommittee meetings will be held in Carson, California

The DoubleTree Hotel

Carson Civic Plaza

2 Civic Plaza Drive

Carson, California 90745

Telephone: +1 (310) 830 - 9200

www.carsondoubletree.com

Please call 1-800-222-TREE for reservations and ask for the MagTek 2008 group rate. You can also book on line at www.carsondoubletree.com or www.doubletree.com and the Group Code is MTK. Attendees should ask for the special negotiated rate of $119.00 per night.

Please be aware that the deadline to make reservations is December 20, 2007. Due to the holidays we request that you make your reservations promptly.

The sponsors for the meeting, Exponent, Giesecke & Devrient, HID Global and MagTek, will host a cocktail reception at the hotel on Wednesday evening, January 30, 2008.

Complete Venue

Meeting Notice

Venue Information

Meeting Agenda

Agenda - B10.11 08-001

Web Page Information

The SC17 web site has been re-structured. The SC17 work programme link now goes directly to its location on the SC17 Web Site, and thus will always be the most recent WG1 document status
The SC17 Standards Summary document is now posted as a B10.6 document as well as on the SC17 web site.