ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17/WG8	ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17/WG8 N 1031_R1_33.08
Contactless Integrated circuit(s) cards	ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17  N 2678

Extract from
Summary Report of the 33rd meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17/WG8,
held in Sydney, Australia, 2004-10-12/15
  (Revision 1)

33.08     Updating the table of AFI (Application family identifier) in ISO/IEC 14443-3 and its recommended usage for MRTDs

WG8 decides that WG8’s recommendation for a quick selection of ePassports and eVisas for Type A and B, see N 1046, makes the definition for the value ‘E‘ in the AFI table of ISO/IEC 14443-3 necessary. Therefore WG8 decides further to make known that definition via the Amendment 3 of ISO/IEC 14443-3, as laid down in N 1040 (balloted as FCD via WG8 document N 1052).

WG3 is recommended to use the definition of ‘E’ in the AFI table in the following way:

WG4 had allocated the tag 49 at its meeting held in London on 2004-09-29/10-01. Tag 49 shall be a variable length tag because a multiapplication card shall return all its applications in tag 49. If all the historical bytes do not fit in ATS length, the ATS will be truncated to its maximum length and the information may be retrieved by an application command such as GET DATA.

Type B Passport + visa chip is recommended to answer, according to 14443-3, 7.9.3.1:
- to REQB(E1) with ATQB(E0 or E1)
- to REQB(E2) with ATQB(E0 or E2)
- to REQB(E0) with ATQB(E0 or E1 or E2)

The 4th byte of Application Data will anyway indicate the number of applications in the PICC.

The PCD should not rely on the multiapplication PICC answer.
The mechanism for quick selection is the REQB(AFI), whatever the ATQB answer.

Type A Passport + visa chip should answer with tag 49 applications E1 and E2.
Type B MRP will also provide the same information with tag 49.