Excellent point, Anders.
Form factor is passe. Just like graphics and music and video, smart card bits have
become detached from smart card iron (or plastic depending on your business). ISO/IEC
7816-4 and the UICC are wonderful logical architectures for managing and controlling
access to data in a multi-party context. They have absolutely nothing to do with
chips or plastic or printing. This is why we will start to see (virtual) smart cards
in mobile phones, in dongles, in memory sticks, in multi-media cards, etc. But they
are no more virtual that an MP3 is a virtual CD.
IMHO, as always.
Cheers, Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Anders Rundgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 3/10/2004 7:42 AM
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Subject: [Muscle] Mini-card - more fragmentation ahead
http://www.visa-asia.com/getacard/visa_mini_faq.shtml
Now we have contact and contact-less, regular and USB,
and "Asian-sized" cards.
What the card business needs is either Kofi Annan or
George W. Bush. Or both maybe :-)
An advantage with mobile phone based virtual SCs, is
that they can have a very variant form-factor adapted
for delicate Asian teenagers to fat American senior
citizens, and even be usable by people with certain
handicaps, and still doing functionally the same thing.
Anders R.
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