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Proposed command set could ease interoperability

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Before the end of the year smart card vendors could have a standard card command set that enables interoperability between credentials without middleware.

The General ID Card Command Set (GICS) builds a standard language for the card command set so that different card standards can communicate without middleware, says Patrick Hearn, vice president of government and identification markets for North and Central America at Oberthur Technologies.

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