Within his role as the Systems Committee Chair, Bruno will drive the ongoing work of the group to develop an end-to-end simplified framework. The document provides guidelines to service providers to streamline the service management process by outlining how key industry specifications such as those developed by EMVCo, GSMA and GlobalPlatform, can be used to implement a comprehensive end-to-end configuration relevant to each market sector, such as payment, transport and healthcare. The framework, which incorporates the secure element (SE), mobile application and mobile messaging specifications, will ease the deployment of secure near field communication (NFC) services in an effort to reduce implementation time and cost.
“The Systems Committee published the first release of its end-to-end framework last year,” comments Bruno. “The initial document focused on contactless payments in response to a demand for an accessible deployment framework that eases deployment and promotes standardization of this ecosystem. My first priority as chair is to release an updated version of the framework, which addresses both the payment and transport sectors.”
Over the next 12 months Bruno will also lead the Systems Committee’s efforts to advance the GlobalPlatform Compliance Program to certify the functional behavior of a product against the requirements outlined within the end-to-end framework. In addition, the Systems Committee is developing an end-to-end testing program, which tests all elements of an end-to-end solution including the SE, handset and point of sale, to ensure that an application can be securely deployed in a mobile handset and perform for the end user as specified.
In addition to its end-to-end framework activity, the Systems Committee’s Messaging Specification for the Management of Mobile-NFC Services will continue to play a major role in streamlining communications across actors in the ecosystem. The document, which defines the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders within the secure value added landscape, supports the management of SEs over-the-air and over the internet.
