CENISSS: an opportunity in ePayment standardization

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CEN/ISSS an opportunity in ePayment
standardization

• Luc Van den Berghe- CEN/ISSS Workshop Manager
• (on behalf of John Ketchell - CEN/ISSS Director)

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CEN/ISSS what is it?

• Created mid 1997
• CENs focal unit on ICT standardization
• Technical Committees as well as Workshops
• CEN Workshops a new methodology in CEN
• CEN Workshop Agreements (CWAs) a new deliverable
  

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On Workshops and CWAs

• Direct participation at expert level
• Open to all interested parties
• Delivering technical specifications but also best
  practices and guidance information
• CWAs consensus of participants
• Funding participating companies and/or public
  money

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Activities relevant to ePaymentsin CEN

• CEN/TC 224 on smart cards
• Electronic Commerce Workshop entire e-Commerce
  value chain
• FINREAD Workshop (smart card reader for secure
  payments in a PC attached home environment)
• Also Electronic Signatures secure signature
  environment, PKIs, etc

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Some further relevant activities

• European Committee on Banking Standards (ECBS)
• TR 102 v3 Overview of European Electronic Purse
  Projects
• ETSI m-Commerce project
• eESC - Smart Card Charter
• ePayments
• Cepsco, Emvco, ...

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Standardization coordination

• CEN, ETSI and ECBS all members of the ICTSB (the
  ICT Standards Board)
• CEN/ISSS dedicated staff closely follows-up on
  eESC

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Trailblazers overview

• Trailblazer 1 - Public Id
• Trailblazer 2. - Id Authentication
• Trailblazer 3. - Certification Protection
  Profile
• Trailblazer 4. - Generalised Card Reader
• Trailblazer 5. - e-Payments
• Trailblazer 6. - Contactless Smart Cards
• Trailblazer 7. - Multi-application Smart Cards
• Trailblazer - Public Transport
• Trailblazer - Healthcare
• Trailblazer - eGovernment
• Trailblazer User Interface - Consumer Issues
• Trailblazer - Smart Cards for Internet

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CEN/TC 224 Work

• EN 1546 1999 Identification card systems -
  Inter-sector electronic purse
• Part 1 Definitions, concepts and structures
• Part 2 Security architecture
• Part 3 Data elements and interchanges
• Part 4 Data objects
• WG currently dormant

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CEN/TC 224 - ISO/TC 68/SC 6Project on Card
related secure commercial and financial
transactions on open networks

• Part 1 Executive Summary
• Part 2 Framework (Concepts and requirements)
• Part 3 Relevant existing standards and
  specifications
• Part 4 Requirements for further standardization
• Part 5 Annexes to the report
• Report (April 1999) is available from
• http//forum.afnor.fr/afnor/WORK/AFNOR/GPN2/Z15Y/P
  UBLIC/WEB/ENGLISH/commerce.htm

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Where can CEN/ISSS add value?

• CEN/ISSS Workshop a quick consensus building
  process with an officially recognized deliverable
• Technical expertise through its existing WSs
• Questions?