International Organization for Standardization

Information technology - Personal identification - -compliant driving licence Part 2: Machine-readable technologies - First Edition
 N ISO/IEC 18013-2

Annotation

ISO/IEC 18013 establishes guidelines for the design format and data content of an ISO-compliant driving licence (IDL) with regard to human-readable features (ISO/IEC 18013-1), ISO machine-readable technologies (ISO/IEC 18013-2), and access control, authentication and integrity validation (ISO/IEC 18013-3). It creates a common basis for international use and mutual recognition of the IDL without impeding individual countries/states in applying their privacy rules and national/community/regional motor vehicle authorities in taking care of their specific needs.

The purpose of storing IDL data on machine-readable media on the IDL is to

• increase productivity (of data and IDL use),

• facilitate electronic data exchange, and

• assist in authenticity and integrity validation.

This part of ISO/IEC 18013 thus specifies the following:

• mandatory and optional machine-readable data;

• the logical data structure;

• encoding rules for the machine-readable technologies currently supported.

To prevent unauthorised access to the data contained on a contactless IC (e.g. by eavesdropping), provision is made to protect the privacy of the licence holder via basic access protection [requiring a human-readable and/or machine-readable key/password on the IDL to access the data on the PIC (via protected-channel communication)]. The implementation details of this function however are defined in ISO/IEC 18013-3.