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NATIONAL FOREWORD

This draft Indian Standard (Part 4) (First Revision) which is identical with ISO/IEC 7816-4 : 2020 ‘Identification cards - Integrated circuit cards - Part 4: Organization, security and commands for interchange’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) jointly was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the Computer Hardware, Peripherals and Identification Cards Sectional Committee and approval of the Electronics and Information Technology Division Council.

This standard was originally published in 2014 and was identical to ISO/IEC 7816-4 : 2014. The standard was subsequently revised in 2020 based on ISO/IEC 7816-4:2018 The first revision of this standard has been undertaken to align it with the latest version of ISO/IEC 7816-4 : 2020.

This Indian Standard is published in thirteen parts. The other parts in this series are:

Part 1 Physical characteristics

Part 2 Dimensions and location of the contacts

Part 3 Electrical interface and transmission protocols

Part 5 Registration of application providers

Part 6 Interindustry data elements for interchange

Part 7 Interindustry commands for Structured Card Query Language (SCQL)

Part 8 Commands for security operations

Part 9 Commands for card management

Part 10 Electronic signals and answer to reset for synchronous cards

Part 11 Personal verification through biometric methods

Part 12 USB electrical interface and operating procedures

Part 13 Commands for application management in a multi-application environment

The text of ISO/IEC Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain terminologies and conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appears referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker, while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.