Machine readable cards

Criteria	Description
Short area title	Machine Readable Cards
Full area title	Machine Readable Cards, related devices, interfaces and operation for banking, telecommunications, transport/logistic, pay TV, access control, identification card including electronic signature
Standardization aspects	1. Functionality: Support for multi-application smart cards at the transport level, e-commerce and m-commerce applications, identification for GSM, 3G, TETRA 2. Interoperability: Financial industry (IMV 2000) versus Telecom industry (ETSI SCP) for smart card platform PKI Infrastructure 3. Legal context: Electronic Signature Directive 4. Safety: Not applicable 5. Environmental aspects: Not applicable 6. Human factors - Man-machine interface: Physical/logical accessibility to card reading devices (CEN/TC224) Inter-sector icons, symbols and pictograms (CEN/TC224) Tactile identifier for differentiation of applications Customization of smart cards, terminal accessibility (WS/URI) 7. Testing: Interface between Smart Card and Terminal Physical aspects
Standardization Organizations/ Technical Bodies	Standards organizations International ISO/IEC JTC1 SC 17 European Cards: CEN TC 224 CEN/ISSS WS/FASTEST CEN/ISSS WS/URI CEN TC251 (healthcare applications CEN TC278 (RTT applications) ETSI SCP ETSI TETRA ECBS e-Signature: CEN E-Sign ETSI SEC Pay TV EBU CENELEC/EBU/ETSI JTC Broadcast Regional TIA TR-45 Specification provider: W3C WAP Forum EMV Global Platform 3GPP 3GPP2 CDG (US) GSA Authorities
Identified work items or deliverables
Established liaisons	E-Europe Smart Card Charter EESSI for Electronic Signature
Standardization gaps	Lack of profiles setting the options of ISO 7816 (card and terminal)
Overlapping standardization activities	Several electronic purse standards
Overlapping areas
Proposal for future investigation
ICTSB co-ordinator
Remarks

.. to coordinate the standardization activities in the field of Information and Communications Technologies

Machine readable cards