On May 3 Amex issued a press release about their Multiple Application Framework. This clearly aims to deal with the organisational problem of a multiple application card for consumer and citizen use - e.g. providing in the card a personal profile database in both open and secure formats (secure is needed where a government dept or perhaps health system needs to write the data but the user cannot change it). It aims to do a much more comprehensive job than the DISTINCT project (DISTINCT has not developed a security model to allow for secure data). Amex cite numerous licensees for the Framework, including IBM. But the Amex web site (http://www.americanexpress.com) gives very little detail, so does anyone know if the specifications are going to be put into the public domain? And will OCF provide assistance with working with the user-friendly multi-app cards that ought to result from applying the Framework? Peter Tomlinson PS Sorry I can't make the meeting at CTST tonight. Iosis, Bristol, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.iosis.co.uk Phone +44 117 924 9231, fax +44 117 924 9233 Visit the OpenCard Framework's WWW site at http://www.opencard.org/ for access to documentation, code, presentations, and OCF announcements. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the OCF Mailing list, send a mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the word "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message.
