There is an maintenance update of ICAO’s test specification ‘RF and Protocol Testing Part 3‘ available since today. The specification is focusing on conformity testing and protocol testing for ePassports implementing protocols like BAC and Supplemental Access Control (SAC) respective PACE v2.

The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of ICAO endorsed the release on the ICAO website, so from now on the test specification can be referenced officially. In version 2.07 of the test specification there are no technical or fundamental changes, but editorial changes. The following test cases are modified in the new release 2.07:

• ISO7816_B_16: Profile corrected
• ISO7816_B_26: Added version
• ISO7816_B_34: Profile corrected
• ISO7816_B_52: Profile corrected
• ISO7816_D_06: Updated version
• ISO7816_D_09 – ISO7816_D_22: Profile corrected and version updated
• ISO7816_E_09 – ISO7816_E_22: Profile corrected and version updated
• ISO7816_F_20: Profile corrected and version updated
• ISO7816_G_20: Profile corrected and version updated
• ISO7816_O_12: Deleted obsolete Test-ID
• ISO7816_O_13: Corrected sequence tags
• ISO7816_O_31: Deleted obsolete Test-ID
• ISO7816_O_35: Added missing caption
• ISO7816_P_xx:  Deleted sample in description of step 1 (‘i.e. more than one set of
  domain parameters are available for PACE’)
• ISO7816_P_04: Corrected numbering in expected results
• ISO7816_P_06: Corrected numbering in expected results
• ISO7816_P_07: Corrected numbering in expected results
• ISO7816_P_14: Updated version
• ISO7816_P_74: In preconditions step 3 concretized concerning PACEInfos in EF.CardAccess
• ISO7816_Q_03: Added missing reference TR-SAC
• LDS_D_06: Corrected typos in step 8

With the new edition of Doc 9303 several technical reports are now obsolete except the test specifications. These test specifications are still independent documents.