Smart Card Standard Incorporates GlobalPlatform Specification

摘要

The Switzerland-based International Organization for Standardization, the international committee that sets standards for contact smart cards has added a new provision governing how new applications are added to smart cards, incorporating technology from the GlobalPlatform industry group. The new provision, part 13 of the ISO/IEC 7816 standard that governs contact smart cards, was published earlier this month by the ISO. Marc Kekicheff, vice chair of GlobalPlatform, says the push to standardize this post-issuance process came from officials in Japan, where government agencies are offering a variety of smart cards as identification documents and want to be able to add new features to those cards after issuance.