Damien Sauveron wrote: > In my opinion the PC/SC application programmers use the APDU to communicate with the smart card but they don't want to have the knowledge of the underlying protocol. In my point of view, the only interest for which the APDU have been introduced, is that it allows an abstraction over the low layer protocols. > > Today, I have printed the part 3 of PC/SC and the remarks on the T=0 of the IFD_Transmit_To_ICC seems confirms your position if we want that PC/SC Lite must compliant with the PC/SC windows version. > On theses remarks I have the feeling that the PC/SC specifications choose a wrong way. Perhaps I am in the error. > > In my opinion, the main standard document is the ISO7816-4 ...
Sadly, the PC/SC WG never tidied up a good but not complete (and slightly mixed up between ISO and EMV) job. It must be about 5 years ago when some ex-colleagues and I tried to get them to finish it. They proposed in 2000 to upgrade it and then everything faded away. Probably MUSCLE holds the baton now. Peter Peter Tomlinson Iosis Associates Bristol, UK Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.musclecard.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
