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| IC |
Integrated circuit |
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| ICC |
Integrated Circuit Card |
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| IFDs |
Interface Devices. |
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| IMV |
Interac/MasterCard/Visa (see EMV) |
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| I/O : Input/Output |
The process of moving information between the central processing
unit and peripherals. |
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| IC Assembler |
The entity which performs IC assembling. |
ISO |
| IC Assembling |
The process of combining one or more ICs with elements enabling
external communication to a module suitable for IC embedding. |
ISO |
| IC Assembly |
A module containing one or more ICs and external communications
suitable for IC embedding. |
ISO |
| IC Embedding |
The process of inserting an IC assembly into a card to form
an ICC. |
ISO |
| IC Memory Card |
An integrated circuit card containing memory but no processing
elements |
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| Imprinter |
A device used to print embossed details from financial transaction
cards onto sales vouchers. |
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| Individual Account Identification |
A personal or individual number assigned by a card issuer to
identify an individual or an account. |
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| Infill Printing |
Filling otherwise blank areas of printed material with fine
detail printing as a countermeasure against counterfeiting. |
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| Initialization |
Setting data fields on a card. |
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| Insult Rate |
Percentage of occasions a valid user is rejected for a service.
e.g. alleged erroneous billings or erroneous rejections of valid
users by biometrics. |
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| Intaglio Printing |
A printing process in which the ink-bearing areas of the printing
surface are hollows below the surface. The thickness of the layer
of ink transferred to the printed surface varies according to the
depth of the hollow giving a design effect. |
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| Integrated Circuit |
Electronic component(s) which are embedded in an ICC in the
form of microcircuits to perform processing and memory functions. |
ISO |
| Integrated Circuit Card (ICC) |
A card into which has been embedded one or more ICs. |
ISO |
| Integrity |
Freedom from unintended or unauthorized modification. |
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| Intelligent Terminal |
A terminal with some processing ability. |
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| Interactive Message |
In a payment system, a message sent and responded to while a
transaction is taking place, especially messages to and from electronic
payment terminals in on-line-operation. |
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| Interchange |
Exchange of payment related transaction data between the Acquirer
and Issuer. |
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| Interchange Designator |
A character recorded on track 1 of a financial transaction card.
It says whether the card can be used internationally, nationwide
only in the country of issue, neither, or whether it is only a
test card. |
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| Interchange Fee |
In a payment system, a fee charged by a party who receives transaction
data and forwards it to a card issuer. |
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| Intermediate Network Facility |
The system of computing and telecommunications equipment which
supports the transmission of transactions between the parties in
a payment system. |
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| International Organization for Standardization |
The international body whose member bodies are national standards
organizations and under whose auspices international standards
are developed and published. |
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| International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) |
An international standards-setting body. |
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| ISO 10202 |
Financial transaction cards - Security architecture of financial
transaction systems using integrated circuit cards. Consist of
multiple parts dealing with the card life cycle, the transaction
process, cryptographic key relationships, secure application modules,
algorithms and key management. |
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| ISO 10373 |
Identification cards - Test methods |
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| ISO 10536 |
Identification cards - Contactless integrated circuit(s) cards.
Consists of several parts dealing with the physical dimensions
of the cards, the dimensions and location of the coupling areas
and electronic signals for closely coupled contactless cards. |
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| ISO 11693 |
Optical Cards - general characteristics |
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| ISO 11694 |
Optical Cards - physical characteristics, dimensions, and location
of accessible optical area, optical properties, logical data structure. |
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| ISO 7810 |
Identification cards - Physical characteristics. Specifies the
nominal dimensions of identification cards. |
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| ISO 7811 |
Identification cards - Recording technique. Consists of several
parts specifying the location of embossing areas as well as magnetic
track locations. |
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| ISO 7812 |
Identification cards - Identification of Issuers - Numbering
system. Consists of several parts specifying a numbering system
and a registration procedure for card issuer identifiers. |
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| ISO 7813 |
Identification cards - Financial transaction cards. Specifies
the dimensions of financial cards (specific option of 7810) as
well as the structure of the data stored in magnetic tracks 1 and
2. |
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| ISO 7816 |
Identification cards - Integrated circuit(s) cards with contacts.
Consists of several parts dealing with the physical dimensions
of the cards. The dimensions and the contacts location, the electronic
signals and the transmission protocols, the inter-industry commands
and responses, a numbering system and registration procedure for
application identifiers, Data for interchange and in the future
the advanced commands as well as the Security architecture. |
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| ISO 9992 |
Financial transaction cards - Messages between the integrated
circuit card and the card-accepting device. Specifies the functions,
messages, data elements as well as the structures of multi application
financial cards built for interchange. |
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| Issuer |
The institution identified on the card issued to the cardholder. |
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| Issuer Identification Number |
A number identifying the major industry and identity of a card
issuer and which forms the first part of the identification number. |
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