OpenCard Framework (OCF)

Goal: facilitate the development of smartcard-based solutions.

• Make the parts of the solution, typically provided by different parties, independent of each other.

Parties:

• Card issuer

  • Card initialization, personalization and issuing

• Card OS provider

  • Basic, lowest-level card behavior

• Card reader / terminal provider

  • Interfaces that deal with reading from an writing into cards

• Application/service provider

  • Development of off-card (and possibly on-card) applications