The standards deliver interoperabilty. It is ignorning the standards that
doesn't.
The GSM SIM is based on enforced smart card standards and shows a very high
level
of interoperabilty ... and profitability, I might add. Without the SIM most
card companies
would have gone bust years ago.
Europeans employ the canard about ISO/IEC 7816 being unbuildable to create a new
European smart card standard about every six months (FINAID, CEPS, eSign, eID,
ITSO,
etc.) and none of these have proven any more interoperable that ISO/IEC 7816 so
it can't
be the standards. Maybe it has to do with compliance testing and enforcement?
IMHO, as always.
Cheers, Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Nils Larsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 2/9/2005 5:53 AM
To: MUSCLE
Cc:
Subject: Re: [Muscle] Some questions about PKCS#15
Peter Tomlinson wrote:
...
> Sadly, in the smart card world the standards do not deliver
> interoperability, but instead enable suppliers to compete in the
market
> for closed schemes.
well closed schemes are more profitable, you can sell the smartcards
_and_ the software necessary to use them ...
Nils
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