Re: MUSCLE standards

2000-05-18 Thread David Sims
Hi, What about TCP/IP over ethernet?? That's an infrastructure just like smartcards are an infrastructure... It's the applications that a ubiquitous card/reader system would enable that are important... and I daresay required befor smartcards become ubiquitous Applications can be as

Re: MUSCLE standards

2000-05-18 Thread Peter W Tomlinson
David Corcoran wrote: Hi, here is a bit that I wrote up to vent on my lack of standards in the smartcard industry. Let me know if you agree or not. (and a great deal more besides). If Birmingham Aston University (UK) mounts it on their unrestricted web site, see the paper on smart card

Re: MUSCLE standards

2000-05-18 Thread Harald Vogt
Hi, what if we built a smartcard "environmental system", a kind of "middleware", that deals on one side with the cards and on the other side with the (host) applications? On the cards' side, it would handle all the specifics of smartcards. On the application side, it would offer the smartcard

Re: MUSCLE standards

2000-05-18 Thread Matthias Bruestle
Mahlzeit Harald Vogt wrote: On the application side, it would offer the smartcard services on a much higher abstraction level. Are you talking about OCF? www.opencard.org Mahlzeit endergone Zwiebeltuete *** Linux Smart Card

MUSCLE BOUNCED Re: standards

2000-05-18 Thread David Corcoran
hali, Standardization efforts could concentrate on the middleware and its interfaces (to the smartcard side and the application side). No need to standardize every bit on the cards. These interfaces could even be service independant such that new services could be introduced easily, without

Re: MUSCLE standards

2000-05-18 Thread Harald Vogt
On Don, 18 Mai 2000, Matthias Bruestle wrote: Mahlzeit Harald Vogt wrote: On the application side, it would offer the smartcard services on a much higher abstraction level. Are you talking about OCF? www.opencard.org Not necessarily. OCF has a few drawbacks. It's Java-specific, local

Re: MUSCLE standards

2000-05-18 Thread Raymond Morsman
unsubscribe MUSCLE end Met de vriendelijke groeten, Raymond. Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last. -- Charles DeGaulle *** Linux Smart Card Developers - M.U.S.C.L.E. (Movement for the