I agree with you Marc. These executives must've forgot the real value of the smartcard development beyond credit cards.
In the Philippines, they are already pushing for the National ID System. And this is the high time for card developers to take action. I envision the big market of government services consolidation via smartcard... the social security systems, healthcare and public education benefits could be well implemented using one card that integrates these services. And this could represent million of dollars of market. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:49 AM Subject: Re: [OCF] Motion to immediately close and dissolve the OpenCard ------ Original Message ------ On 02/10/01, 14:54:55, Mark Dobrinic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: [OCF] Motion to immediately close and dissolve the OpenCard: > Hello, > I am follow this list occasionally, and since OCF is being used and has potential in a Java-based world, is anybody interested in continuing this project in some other way? > Or based on what is known about it, reimplement OCF to make it better/better documented? > Like you suggest, develop OpenCard Foundation into a REAL Open SDK? > If anyone is interested, please let me know ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Yes of course many of us would be in theory. However, I don't think it is a good plan. Why? Well to do this kind of thing properly you must have the help of the card/reader vendors. It's very hard work without this, and you can't make it appeal to developers unless you support many readers and card types. If you write a new system you will have a hard time getting SLB, IBM, Gemplus, Bull etc. to provide "CardService" implementations for your framework. They will not be interested unless it is a "standard" framework (like OCF is in a way). Now, if the OpenCard Consortium is thinking of giving up because it can't get vendors to support it enough, then what chance do any of us have? We have experienced similar problems with our DCSF product that extends OCF with card identification and card service implementations (http://www.wangjammers.org/smartcards/). I really think the card vendor executives need to get their brains into gear and realise that this is a major enabler for smartcard applications and they could be limiting themselves to the VISA and AMEX of this world as far as customer bases go. Just because there aren't many java applications that use SmartCards yet, doesn't mean there won't be. The potential is huge and Java is only now maturing enough to make it possible to deploy user-friendly applications that use smartcards. ...and our DCSF project hopes to make this a reality too. A public beta release is imminent now. Kind regards, Marc Palmer http://www.wangjammers.org --- > Visit the OpenCard web site at http://www.opencard.org/ for more > information on OpenCard---binaries, source code, documents. > This list is being archived at http://www.opencard.org/archive/opencard/ ! To unsubscribe from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list send an email ! to ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! containing the word ! unsubscribe ! in the body. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com --- > Visit the OpenCard web site at http://www.opencard.org/ for more > information on OpenCard---binaries, source code, documents. > This list is being archived at http://www.opencard.org/archive/opencard/ ! To unsubscribe from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list send an email ! to ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! containing the word ! unsubscribe ! in the body.
