NFC Forum

Technical Committee

The NFC Forum's Technical Committee coordinates the efforts of the three Technical Working Groups, which are the primary member-level forum for technical discussions. The Technical Working Groups have the following range of activity:

• To summarize and compile existing work of the member companies into specifications
• To develop additional specifications in the area of NFC transport protocol
• To develop recommendations for data structures and protocols
• To create test procedures for compliance testing

The Technical Committee has three Working Groups. Working Group participation is open to all NFC Forum members except Implementer members, with voting rights reserved for designated Sponsor and Principal member representatives, and non-voting status for Associate and Non-profit member representatives.

Technical Committee Chair: John Hillan, Qualcomm

 

NFC Devices Technical Working Group

The NFC Devices Technical Working Group handles the baseline NFC functionalities, including:

• Developing a modular architecture for NFC devices
• Developing and maintaining specifications for interoperable data exchange and protocols for device discovery and device capability
• Developing and maintaining specifications for NFC compatible tags
• Specifying functionality for device-to-device communication
• Specifying functionality for reader/writer communication and card emulation

NFC Devices Technical Working Group Chair: John Waters, Broadcom Corporation

 

Reference Applications Framework Technical Working Group

The TWG Reference Applications Framework defines and maintains technical specifications, application documents and recommendations for the main NFC use cases. The objectives of this working group are to:

• define NDEF encodings for widely applicable generic data formats
• define NDEF encodings for application specific data formats
• define NDEF based data exchange protocols for selected applications
• develop application documents to describe the use of NFC Forum specifications for vertical application domains

Reference Applications Framework Technical Working Group Chair: Stephen Tiedemann, Sony

 

Security Technical Working Group

The Security Technical Working Group handles security and data protection issues within the NFC Forum, and provides security-related guidance for all other Forum technical activities. Activities of the Security Working Group include:

• Defining a modular security architecture for NFC-based communications
• Providing support and guidance to other working groups on security-related topics
• Defining common security requirements, and describing threat models relevant to NFC-based communications
• Defining, as needed, new NFC-related security specifications

In addition, the Security Technical Working Group considers other topics, such as User Interaction, Identity, Privacy, and Simplicity, to determine what, if any, additional work is necessary to address issues in these areas.

Security Technical Working Group Chair: Tony Rosati, Research In Motion