National foreword

This Published Document is the UK implementation of ISO/IEC TS 18013‑6:2024.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee IST/17, Cards and security devices for personal identification.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its committee manager.

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This Published Document was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 30 November 2024.

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This document was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, Subcommittee SC 17, Cards and security devices for personal identification.

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Introduction

The ISO/IEC 18013 series 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), ISO machine-readable technologies (ISO/IEC 18013‑2), access control, authentication and integrity validation (ISO/IEC 18013‑3), associated test methods (ISO/IEC 18013‑4) and interface and related requirements to facilitate ISO-compliant driving licence (IDL) functionality on a mobile device (ISO/IEC 18013‑5). It creates a common basis for international use and mutual recognition of the IDL without impeding individual countries/states in applying their privacy rules and national/community/regional motor vehicle authorities in taking care of their specific needs.

ISO/IEC 18013‑5 establishes interface specifications for the implementation of a driving licence in association with a mobile device. It specifies the interface between the mobile driving licence (mDL) and mDL reader and the interface between the mDL reader and the issuing authority infrastructure.

This document prescribes requirements for testing of the compliance of the data model, device engagement, data transfer and security mechanisms on a mobile driving application with the requirements of ISO/IEC 18013‑5.

1 Scope

This document specifies test methods for testing conformity of a mobile driving licence (mDL) or an mDL reader to ISO/IEC 18013‑5. This document specifies test methods for:

mDL on its interface to an mDL reader;
mDL reader on its interface to an mDL;
mDL reader on its (optional) interface to an issuing authority infrastructure.

Test cases for an issuing authority infrastructure on its interface to an mDL reader are not included in this document.

Test cases for the use of OIDC by an mDL reader on its interface to an issuing authority infrastructure are not included in this document. This document only provides test cases for the use of WebAPI on this interface.

This document only addresses the functional behaviour of an implementation under test (IUT) on its interface(s) in scope. It does not address:

the internal implementation of an IUT, such as a secure area in an mDL;
any functional requirements to an IUT not specified in ISO/IEC 18013‑5, for example, requirements of a particular issuing authority;
non-functional aspects of the IUT, nor IUT interfaces not listed above, such as the interface from an issuing authority infrastructure to an mDL, used to provision mDL data.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Abbreviated terms

5 Conformance

6 Test design

6.1 General

6.2 Test case hierarchy

6.3 Test administration

7 mDL conformity test methods

8 mDL reader conformity test methods

Bibliography

PD ISO/IEC TS 18013-6:2024

Personal identification. ISO-compliant driving licence - mDL test methods

Published:

30 Nov 2024

Withdrawn:

10 Dec 2025