Preface:

Standards development within the Information Technology sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the Canadian Advisory Committee (CAC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC. Also, as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Canada participates in the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU-T).

Scope:

Scope This part of ISO/IEC 7816 specifies a registration procedure for application providers, and establishes the authorities and procedures to ensure and optimize the reliability of this registration.

NOTE 1: ISO/IEC 7816-4 defines the structures of registered application provider identifiers (RIDs), and how to use them. A registered application provider identifier (RID) consists of five bytes.

NOTE 2: In international RIDs (assigned by the international registration authority), the first quartet is set to 'A'.

NOTE 3: In national RIDs (assigned by a national Registration Authority), the first quartet is set to 'D' and a relevant country code follows (see Annex B).