The OpenCard Consortium (OCC) is a non-profit organization that promotes open specifications for interfacing with smart cards. It has many member companies and supports a variety of smart card readers and applications. The OpenCard Framework provides a common method for connecting applications to different cards and readers, hiding programming complexity. The OCC has released several versions of the framework and reference implementations, and it is gaining acceptance among related standards bodies.

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• Consortium Purpose and Positioning
• Consortium Members and Organization
• Architecture Overview and Status of Work
• Relevance to related Standards
• Conclusions

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• Extend and promote OCF specifications & provide
– publicly available specifications
– means to contribute to specs evolution
– guidance for creation of compliant products
– forum for agreement of specification proposals
– liaison with related interoperability initiatives
– sponsorship of specification submissions to
appropriate formal open standards bodies
OCC = OpenCard Consortium, OCF = OpenCard Framework

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• Provides open software methods
– generic interfacing of client applications with
variety of cards, readers, and card applications
– ease of use by hiding programming complexity
• Easy deployment of related technologies
– such as JavaCard and others
• Main components are
– Framework Core, CardServices, CardTerminals
• Technical Overview
– separate session was held at CT/ST 5/11/99

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• A non-profit US based corporation
– inaugurated at CTST’98
• Management Board
– general management in accordance with bylaws
• Secretary and Treasurer
• Technical Committee
– specification of OpenCard Framework
– spin off Task Forces for specific topics

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• Framework specification and reference
implementations available
Version Rel Date Version specifics Core(KB)
0.9 09/97 Initial beta version 200
1.0 04/98
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• CardTerminals / CardServices available for
devices from
– Dallas Semiconductors, Gemplus, IBM,
Schlumberger, SCM Microsystems, Siemens
– G&D, Litronics, Towitoko, XAC Automation
– and any PC/SC compliant smartcard reader
– see webpage for details

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• Other Products / Solutions that deploy OCF
– available
• Dallas iButton Integrated Dev Environment
• IBM Javastation
• IBM Internet Screenphone Reference
– beta / in development
• Gemplus GemXpresso RapidApplDev II
• SUN Javastation
• IBM Ocean JavaBeans for Visual Programming

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• DAVIC (Digital Audio Visual Council) and
ISRF (Internet Screenphone Reference Forum)
– have adopted OCF in latest specification levels
• JavaPOS and ETSI GSM WG9
– intent to adopt OCF in latest spec level
• Visa Open Terminal Framework
– intent to harmonize with OCF
• GCA (Global Chipcard Alliance)
– consideration of OCF in current interoperability work
• PC/SC
– interoperability through generic PC/SC CardTerminal

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• Webpage: www.opencard.org
– Consortium and membership information
– Source and object code, demos and samples
– Technical documentation
– Supported Devices and Support SW
– Frequently asked questions
– Mailing lists
– Presentations like this one

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• Well established standardization body
• Variety of supported devices
• Ongoing progress and further development
• Broad acceptance by related standards
• Many demos at CTST exhibition