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 Jean-Loup Dépinay from Oberthur Card Systems.

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 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.

2008 activities and priorities:

• To update, clarify and extend Card Specification v2.2. Work will focus on clarifying the security domains hierarchy, incorporating a new Application Programming Interface (API) as defined by the Confidential Card Content Management Amendment, progressing a UICC Configuration and incorporating Smart Card Platform (SCP) 03 - an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) based secure channel protocol.
• To define a card compliance program for Card Specification v2.2, including the UICC Configuration.
• To progress work towards the development of GlobalPlatform Card Specification v3.0. This new version of the specification will be compatible with the Java Card v3.0 specification.

Card Committee Working Groups:

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 establish and develop a work plan for a Card Compliance Program for the GlobalPlatform Card Specification v2.2.

Card Specification Working Group
Objectives:

• To maintain the GlobalPlatform Card Specification v2.2.
• 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.

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.