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Card Committee

The aim of the Card Committee is to define industry and technology neutral specifications for the secure and interoperable deployment and management of multiple embedded applications on secure chip technology. 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 technology offers the highest levels of security.
  • To advance the GlobalPlatform Card Compliance Program, to facilitate and assure interoperability within the marketplace.
  • 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 GlobalPlatform's Task Forces and Device and Systems Committees to ensure the alignment of secure chip technology within the context of the wider GlobalPlatform technology infrastructure.

Beneficiaries of the Committee Include:

  • Issuers deploying single and multi-application technology who wish to manage their own chip while defining a policy for hosting application providers and proposing value-added services.
  • Application providers who want to deploy applications on an existing platform.
  • Card manufacturers who deliver products based on the GlobalPlatform Specifications.

Achievements in 2011

  • Creation of the cross-industry Composition Model, which defines the security evaluation necessary for secure elements (SE’s) with post-issuance capabilities to achieve certification from EMVCo and Common Criteria. The Composition Model v1.0 was developed in association with EMVCo and GSMA.
  • Publication of Amendment E for Card Specification v2.2: Security Upgrade for Card Content Management.  It includes a key agreement scheme for the confidential set up of keys in a security domain based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
  • Completion of the ID Configuration, which details the use of GlobalPlatform technology for ID cards.
  • Completion of the Contactless Extension for the UICC Configuration, which complements the UICC Configuration by detailing the use of Amendment C: Contactless Services for the UICC.
  • Release of the first two Test Suites for testing cards against the UICC Configuration and the Basic Financial Configuration.

2012 Activities and Priorities:

  • To develop the SE Configuration for embedded SE’s and security controllers on microSD cards.
  • To align with the SD Association to progress the Contactless Extension for the SE Configuration.
  • To develop the ISO/IEC 7816 Framework, which will specify how GlobalPlatform technology is used when mapped to command/response structured defined by ISO.
  • To extend the Test Suites to contactless services and to the SE Configuration.

Card Committee Working Groups:

Card Specification Working Group 
Objectives:

  • To maintain the GlobalPlatform Card Specification v2.2 and related configurations, 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 chip products to the GlobalPlatform Card Specification.
  • To maintain all aspects of the Card Compliance Program for the GlobalPlatform Card Specification v2.2.
  • To advance test specifications for compliance testing against GlobalPlatform market configurations.

Card Security Working Group 
Objectives:

  • To work with different entities to implement GlobalPlatform's Card Composition Model for secure elements with post-issuance capabilities in real-world use cases.
  • 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, become a GlobalPlatform member.

Summer 2012 (Date and location TBC)
9 November 2012, Paris, France