ISO/IEC DIS 18013-3

Personal identification — ISO-compliant driving licence — Part 3: Access control, authentication and integrity validation

General information

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ISO/IEC

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 17 Cards and security devices for personal identification

International Standard

35.240.15   Identification cards. Chip cards. Biometrics

Scope

ISO/IEC 18013 establishes guidelines for the design format and data content of an ISO-compliant driving licence (IDL) with regard to human-readable features (ISO/IEC 18013‑1), machine-readable technologies (ISO/IEC 18013‑2), and access control, authentication and integrity validation (ISO/IEC 18013‑3). It creates a common basis for international use and mutual recognition of the IDL without impeding individual countries/states to apply their privacy rules and national/community/regional motor vehicle authorities in taking care of their specific needs.
ISO 18013-3:2017
- is based on the machine-readable data content specified in ISO/IEC 18013‑2;
- specifies mechanisms and rules available to issuing authorities (IAs) for:

- access control (i.e. limiting access to the machine-readable data recorded on the IDL),
- document authentication (i.e. confirming that the document was issued by the claimed IA), and
- data integrity validation (i.e. confirming that the data has not been changed since issuing).

ISO 1813-3:2017 does not address issues related to the subsequent use of data obtained from the IDL, e.g. privacy issues.

Life cycle

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ISO/IEC DIS 18013-3
40.60 Close of voting
May 19, 2026