ID-Cards

About This Committee

The INCITS/ID-Cards Technical Committee develops national and international standards in the area of identification cards and related devices for use in inter-industry applications and international interchange, e.g.:

• Physical characteristics and test methods for identification cards
• Integrated circuit cards with contacts
• Contactless integrated circuit cards
• High and low coercivity mag stripe cards
• Optical memory cards
• Machine readable passports & visas
• Health care identification card (national project only)
• Thin flexible cards and tickets with mag stripes (new International project)
• Drivers License/Identification cards

INCITS/ID-Cards is the U.S. TAG to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 17.

Note: INCITS/ID-Cards was formerly known as INCITS/ID-Cards - Cards and Security Devices for Personal Identification until January 2022.

Group Participants

  • Google
  • HID Global
  • ID Technology Partners Inc
  • IDEMIA
  • Incode Technologies Inc
  • Infineon Technologies Americas Corporation
  • International Card Manufacturers Association
  • Klockner Pentaplast
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • OCR Labs Global (USA) Inc.
  • Pacific Northwest University - Cyber Education
  • Q-CARD
  • Spruce Systems Inc
  • Thales DIS USA
  • UATP
  • United States Dept of Homeland Security
  • United States Dept of State
  • United States Government Publishing Office
  • VISA
  • AAMVA
  • Accenture
  • Acuant Inc
  • American National Standards Institute
  • Apple
  • CBN Secure Technologies Inc
  • CFC International
  • CPI Card Group
  • Credence ID LLC
  • Cubic Transportation Systems Inc
  • Deloitte & Touche LLP
  • Department of Commerce - NIST
  • Discover Card
  • Eclipse Laboratories
  • Entrust
  • Envoc
  • Exponent Inc
  • FAST Enterprises LLC
  • Giesecke & Devrient
  • Global Enterprise Technologies Corporation