Systems Committee
The aim of the Systems Committee is to define open specifications that can be used for the back-office infrastructure for the deployment and management of one or more embedded applications on secure chip technology. The group creates an industry and technology neutral application management environment which is able to support all market requirements, with specific support for secure chips based on GlobalPlatform technology. The Systems Committee is currently chaired by Eric Le Saint from ActivIdentity.
Committee Objectives:
- To develop, maintain and evolve the GlobalPlatform Systems Specifications and related supporting documents and tools, while retaining backwards compatibility with earlier technology releases.
- To define the roles and responsibilities of actors within single and multi-application environments and to define the interfaces between those roles.
- To define and develop the GlobalPlatform Systems Compliance Program, to facilitate interoperability within GlobalPlatform enabled management systems.
- 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 Card and Device Committees to ensure the alignment of system technology within the context of the wider GlobalPlatform technology infrastructure.
Beneficiaries of the Committee Include:
- Issuers wishing to facilitate the secure and interoperable deployment and management of multiple embedded applications on secure chip technology.
- Application developers wishing to create new applications and services.
- Entities involved in the architecture, design and implementation of systems supporting application customization tasks. This includes software and hardware vendors, personalization bureaus, application developers, chip issuers and parties providing services to any of these entities.
- System integrators and other entities that need to understand or interact with an application management system.
Achievements in 2011
2012 Activities and Priorities:
- Revise GlobalPlatform Messaging Specification for Management of Mobile-NFC Services (TSM Messaging), to include specifications of the interface between TSMs and payment service providers.
- Develop Compliance Program test methodology for TSM messaging.
Systems Committee Working Groups
Architecture Working Group
Objectives:
- To identify how GlobalPlatform's System Specifications can be adapted to create configurations that will support market specific architecture requirements. The first deliverable of the Architecture Working Group is a GlobalPlatform Messaging configuration for OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), detailing the various modes to transport GlobalPlatform Messages using standard internet technology.
Trusted Service Manager (TSM) Working Group
Objectives:
- To analyze the interfaces of the TSM with its ecosystem, i.e. mobile network operators, NFC service providers, etc., and define a common, interoperable and secure messaging specification for implementers of TSM interfaces.
Profile and Scripting Working Group
Objectives:
- To develop open specifications and supporting documentation for chip customization (loading, installing, data preparation and pre/post issuance personalization).
Key Management System (KMS) Working Group
Objectives:
- To define interfaces between Key Management Systems (KMS), enabling control of key usage and ensuring interoperability between systems that share keys during the lifecycle of GlobalPlatform-based chips and applications.
- To develop, maintain and evolve the KMS Requirements Specification.
Systems Compliance Working Group
Objectives:
- To make recommendations for defining the compliance of GlobalPlatform systems to the GlobalPlatform Systems Specification.
- To maintain all aspects of the Systems Compliance Test Suite for Profile and Scripting.
- To establish and develop a work plan for phase two of the Systems Compliance Program which will enhance coverage on compliance to the GlobalPlatform Messaging Specification.
Upcoming Meetings:
Please see below a schedule of upcoming meetings of the Systems 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.
21-23 February: Joint System Committee-TSM WG F2F meeting
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