Session: Crystal Ball Seminar – The future for e-security documents and related infrastructure

Speech title: The e-passport’s fifth anniversary - exploring the future

Since 2005, when the first States started issuing e-passports, more than 100 million are now in circulation.

Since this successful introduction, ICAO’s New Technology Working Group (NTWG) and its industry partners from ISO started to reflect on the present and desired future use of e-passports.

These reflections focus on two distinguished areas, Maintenance of the Standard and New Functionalities.

Maintenance of the Standard:
The present e-passport specifications are celebrating their fifth anniversary. The many practical experiences from the past 5 years justify an evaluation of the standard. Also technology evolves and computer power increases continuously. It is a matter of good practice to oversee a horizon of the next 5-10 years, the typical lifetime of a passport, and keep e-passport security up-to-date.

New Functionalities:
Now that the world is getting more and more familiar with the use of e-passports and starts benefiting from the increased security it offers, ICAO’s NTWG has started a study to investigate additional new functionalities that the technology could offer. For instance in the facilitation area.

This presentation goes into the present status and challenges and discusses what to expect in the next 5 years.

 

Biography

Tom Kinneging is senior project manager at Sagem Identification. He has a long experience in ICT and Project management in the field of Identity Documents and related systems.

In the first Dutch e-passport project, which resulted in the introduction in August 2006, Tom supervised the Common Criteria Certification of the solution (the Sdu ICAO eMRTD Applet).
He was the leader of the development and certification of Sagem Identification’s Extended Access Control solution for the next generation of e-passports. This solution is now being used in eight e-passport issuing countries.

In ISO/IEC JTC1 SC17 Working Group 3 he is the leader of Task Force 2 - “ICAO Doc 9303 and ISO/IEC 7501 Editorial Drafting”, and Task Force 5 - “Data Structure and Security Framework for eMRTDs”.

As an active contributor to the work of ICAO’s Technical Advisory Group and its New Technologies Working Group he has been the editor of various technical papers, such as the Technical Report on PKI for Machine Readable Travel Documents and the Supplement to ICAO Doc. 9303.