Card Committee

The aim of the Card Committee is to define industry and technology neutral specifications for card and application management on a dynamic single or multi-application smart card from multiple service providers. The Card Committee is currently chaired by Karl Eglof Hartel from Giesecke & Devrient.

Committee Objectives:

• To develop, maintain and evolve the GlobalPlatform Card Specification and related supporting documents and tools, while retaining backwards compatibility with earlier technology releases.
• To recommend security evaluation processes and security features to ensure that GlobalPlatform cards offer the highest levels of security.
• To define and develop the GlobalPlatform Card Compliance Program, to facilitate interoperability within GlobalPlatform card deployments.
• To reach out to and liaise with other relevant industry and standardization groups and identify new business requirements and opportunities for progressing joint working initiatives.
• To work with the GlobalPlatform Mobile Task Force, Government Task Force, Device and Systems Committees, ensuring alignment of card technology within the context of the wider GlobalPlatform technology infrastructure.

Beneficiaries of the Committee Include:

• Card issuers deploying multi-application smart cards who wish to manage their own card while defining a policy for hosting application providers and proposing value-added services.
• Application providers who want to deploy applications on an existing infrastructure.
• Card manufacturers who deliver products based on the GlobalPlatform Specifications.

2009/2010 Activities and Priorities:

• To release Amendment E to Card Specification v2.2 for elliptic curve cryptography based card management and Secure Channel Protocol (SCP11). This amendment is targeted at the ID market.
• To complete work on the Card Compliance Program for the UICC Configuration v1.0 and Mapping Guidelines, and perform an initial TestFest for interoperability between UICCs and test tool implementations.
• To release a security specification for the GlobalPlatform UICC Configuration to enable composite security evaluation.
• To release the first part of GlobalPlatform Card Specification v3.0 which will combine all amendments to Card Specification v2.2, and support a new networked framework for web applications.
• To release an Embedded Secure Element Configuration for embedded smart cards soldered into a device.
• To release a basic identity configuration for the government and identity market.

Card Committee Working Groups:

Card Specification Working Group
Objectives:

• To maintain the GlobalPlatform Card Specification v2.2 and create the GlobalPlatform Card Specification v3.0.
• To develop updates and changes to improve clarity and correct errors.
• To enhance the card specification to meet the changing business and functional requirements of GlobalPlatform's members and the industry.

Card Compliance Working Group
Objectives:

• To make recommendations for defining the compliance of GlobalPlatform card products to the GlobalPlatform Card Specification.
• To maintain all aspects of the Card Compliance Program for the GlobalPlatform Card Specification v2.1.1.
• To develop test specifications for compliance testing against the UICC Configuration v1.0 and Mapping Guidelines.

Card Security Working Group
Objectives:

• To work with EMVCo and GSM Association to develop a common, cross-industry certification model for secure elements with post-issuance capabilities.
• To generate a Card Security Requirements Specification for each GlobalPlatform Card Configuration.

Upcoming Meetings:

Please see below a schedule of upcoming meetings of the Card Committee and its working groups. If you have an interest in keeping abreast of committee discussions and developments or would like to become actively involved in these meetings, please click here.