ETSI TS 102 483 V9.0.0 (2019-02)

ETSI TS 102 483 V9.0.0 (2019-02)






TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
Smart cards;
UICC-Terminal interface;
Internet Protocol connectivity between UICC and terminal
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Reference
RTS/SCP-T0311v900
Keywords
internet, protocol, smart card
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Content
Intellectual Property Rights . 4
Foreword . 4
Modal verbs terminology . 4
Introduction . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 References . 6
2.1 Normative references . 6
2.2 Informative references . 8
3 Definition of terms, symbols and abbreviations . 8
3.1 Terms . 8
3.2 Symbols . 9
3.3 Abbreviations . 9
4 Terminal-UICC IP configuration . 9
4.0 General . 9
4.1 Local client on UICC . 10
4.2 Local server on UICC . 10
4.3 Remote client UICC . 11
4.4 Remote server on UICC . 11
5 Protocol Stack . 12
6 UICC and Terminal components requirements . 13
6.0 Introduction . 13
6.1 UICC IP layer . 13
6.1.0 General . 13
6.1.1 IPv4/IPv6 interworking . 13
6.1.2 Address allocation . 13
6.1.2.0 General . 13
6.1.2.1 Local Connection . 14
6.1.2.2 Remote Connection . 14
6.1.2.2.0 General . 14
6.1.2.2.1 IPv4 address allocation . 14
6.1.2.2.2 IPv6 address allocation . 15
6.2 Local naming . 15
6.2.0 General . 15
6.2.1 Predefined names . 15
6.2.2 Names provided by the UICC . 15
6.3 Summary of terminal and UICC configuration . 16
6.3.1 UICC Configuration . 16
6.3.1.1 IP v4 . 16
6.3.1.2 IP v6 . 16
6.3.2 Terminal Configuration . 16
6.3.2.1 IP v4 . 16
6.3.2.2 IP v6 . 17
6.4 Terminal IP Components . 17
6.4.1 Connection setting . 17
6.4.2 Routing, Network Address Translation and port forwarding . 17
Annex A (informative): Connection of a local equipment to the terminal and UICC. 18
Annex B (informative): Example of activation parameters . 19
Annex C (informative): Bibliography . 20
Annex D (informative): Change history . 21
History . 22

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Intellectual Property Rights
Essential patents
IPRs essential or potentially essential to normative deliverables may have been declared to ETSI. The information
pertaining to these essential IPRs, if any, is publicly available for ETSI members and non-members, and can be found
in ETSI SR 000 314: "Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs); Essential, or potentially Essential, IPRs notified to ETSI in
respect of ETSI standards", which is available from the ETSI Secretariat. Latest updates are available on the ETSI Web
server (https://ipr.etsi.org/).
Pursuant to the ETSI IPR Policy, no investigation, including IPR searches, has been carried out by ETSI. No guarantee
can be given as to the existence of other IPRs not referenced in ETSI SR 000 314 (or the updates on the ETSI Web
server) which are, or may be, or may become, essential to the present document.
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Foreword
This Technical Specification (TS) has been produced by ETSI Technical Committee Smart Card Platform (SCP).
The contents of the present document are subject to continuing work within TC SCP and may change following formal
TC SCP approval. If TC SCP modifies the contents of the present document, it will then be republished by ETSI with
an identifying change of release date and an increase in version number as follows:
Version x.y.z
where:
x the first digit:
0 early working draft;
1 presented to TC SCP for information;
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3 or greater indicates TC SCP approved document under change control.
y the second digit is incremented for all changes of substance, i.e. technical enhancements, corrections,
updates, etc.
z the third digit is incremented when editorial only changes have been incorporated in the document.
Modal verbs terminology
In the present document "shall", "shall not", "should", "should not", "may", "need not", "will", "will not", "can" and
"cannot" are to be interpreted as described in clause 3.2 of the ETSI Drafting Rules (Verbal forms for the expression of
provisions).
"must" and "must not" are NOT allowed in ETSI deliverables except when used in direct citation.
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Introduction
The present document defines how an Internet Protocol connection may be established between a UICC and a terminal
connected through a UICC-Terminal Interface able to carry Internet Protocol packets, and how the UICC resources
defined in ETSI TS 102 221 [11] may be accessed over this connection. Most telecommunication infrastructures rely on
the Internet Protocol and therefore telecommunication terminals commonly implement the IP layers as standardized by
the IETF RFC 791 [1] and by the new version in IETF RFC 2460 [7]. Connecting the UICC and the terminal at this
level is expected to bring the following advantages:
• Leverage on existing standardization efforts: Applicative protocols relying on IP, e.g. running over TCP or
UDP, have already been standardized for a wide variety of applications and may be used by UICC
applications.
• Minimize UICC-specific developments on the terminals; reuse what is already available on terminals rather
than forcing specific developments.
• Facilitate connectivity of the UICC with standard network elements such as remote servers, etc.
The present document focuses on the establishment and configuration of a generic IP connection between the UICC and
terminal, without addressing specific applications that may use this connection capability.
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1 Scope
The present document specifies the establishment and configuration of an Internet Protocol connection between a UICC
and a terminal interfaced through a protocol that supports the transport of Internet Protocol packets.
The way the Internet Protocol packets (or similar packets such as ARP) are transported over the UICC-Terminal
interface is part of the UICC-Terminal interface specification and not within the scope of the present document. The
present document focuses on the configuration and establishment of the Internet Protocol connection between the UICC
and the terminal.
The Internet Protocol connectivity defined in the present document may be used by applications such as the Smartcard
Web Server [i.7].
2 References
2.1 Normative references
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific. For specific references, only the cited version applies. For non-specific references, the latest version of the
referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
• In the case of a reference to a TC SCP document, a non specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version
of that document in the same Release as the present document.
Referenced documents which are not found to be publicly available in the expected location might be found at
https://docbox.etsi.org/Reference/.
NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication, ETSI cannot guarantee
their long term validity.
The following referenced documents are necessary for the application of the present document.
[1] IETF RFC 791: "Internet Protocol".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc791.txt.
[2] IETF RFC 826: "An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc826.txt.
[3] IETF RFC 792: "Internet Control Message Protocol".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc792.txt.
[4] IETF RFC 793: "Transmission Control Protocol".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc793.txt.
[5] IETF RFC 2449: "POP3 Extension Mechanism".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2449.txt.
[6] IETF RFC 1122: "Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1122.txt.
[7] IETF RFC 2460: "Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6)Specification".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2460.txt.
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[8] IETF RFC 2463: "Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6)for the Internet Protocol Version 6
(IPv6) Specification".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2463.txt.
[9] IETF RFC 3022: "Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT)".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3022.txt.
[10] IETF RFC 3314: "Recommendations for IPv6 in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
Standards".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3314.txt.
[11] ETSI TS 102 221: "Smart Cards; UICC-Terminal interface; Physical and logical characteristics
(Release 7)".
[12] IETF RFC 4861: "Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4861.txt.
[13] IETF RFC 4862:"IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4862.txt.
[14] IETF RFC 4294: "IPv6 Node Requirements".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4294.txt.
[15] IETF RFC 4291: "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4291.txt.
[16] IETF RFC 2136: "Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE)".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2136.txt
[17] IETF RFC 1035: "Domain names - Implementation and Specification".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt
[18] IETF RFC 3490: "Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3490.txt
[19] IETF RFC 2131: "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2131.txt.
[20] ETSI TS 102 600: "Smart Cards; UICC-Terminal interface; Characteristics of the USB interface".
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2.2 Informative references
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific. For specific references, only the cited version applies. For non-specific references, the latest version of the
referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
• In the case of a reference to a TC SCP document, a non specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version
of that document in the same Release as the present document.
NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication, ETSI cannot guarantee
their long term validity.
The following referenced documents are not necessary for the application of the present document but they assist the
user with regard to a particular subject area.
[i.1] IETF RFC 2060: "Internet Message Access Protocol", version 4rev1.
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2060.txt.
[i.2] IETF RFC 2246: "The TLS Protocol", version 1.0.
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt.
[i.3] IETF RFC 2616: "Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt.
[i.4] IETF RFC 959: "File Transfer Protocol (FTP)".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc959.txt.
[i.5] IETF RFC 821: "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc821.txt.
[i.6] IETF RFC 1034: "Domain Names - concepts and facilities".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt.
[i.7] OMA-TS-Smartcard-Web-Server-V1-0.
NOTE: Available from http://www.openmobilealliance.org.
[i.8] IETF RFC 768: "User Datagram Protocol".
NOTE: Available from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc768.txt.
[i.9] ETSI TS 102 223: "Smart Cards; Card Application Toolkit (CAT)".
[i.10] IETF RFC 4632: "Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR): The Internet Address Assignment and
Aggregation Plan".
3 Definition of terms, symbols and abbreviations
3.1 Terms
For the purposes of the present document, the following terms apply:
application: computer program that defines and implements a useful functionality on a smart card or in a terminal
NOTE: The term may apply to the functionality itself, to the representation of the functionality in a programming
language, or to the realization of the functionality as executable code.
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file: directory or an organized set of bytes or records in the UICC
3.2 Symbols
Void.
3.3 Abbreviations
For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
FTP File Transfer Protocol
HTTP HyperText Transport Protocol
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
IP Internet Protocol
NAT Network Address Translation
POP Post Office Protocol
HTTPS Secure HyperText Transport Protocol
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TLS Transport Layer Security
UDP User Datagram Protocol
URI Universal Resource Identifier
4 Terminal-UICC IP configuration
4.0 General
This clause is an introduction to the various configurations and uses of the IP UICC. A UICC supporting IP will be
deployed with at least a local address. This address relates to a private network established between the UICC and the
terminal, independently from other networks to which the terminal may be connected.
The UICC shall be able to act as a combination of the following basic configurations:
• A TCP/IP or UDP/IP client of a server located on the terminal.
• A TCP/IP or UDP/IP server for a client located on the terminal.
• A TCP/IP or UDP/IP client of a server located in a network reachable through the terminal.
• A TCP/IP or UDP/IP server for a client located in a network reachable through the terminal.
Depending on the final applications, the actual configuration may be a combination of these basic configurations.
In the present document, the wording TCP/IP or UDP/IP protocol includes any application protocol such as HTTP,
FTP, POP, SMTP that may be enabled by TCP or UDP, i.e. the configuration targeted is not restricted to having a web
server and web client on the card.
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4.1 Local client on UICC
In this configuration the UICC is a client for TCP/IP servers located on the terminal. This configuration is the simplest
and does not require any routing or address translation. It requires however naming resolution inside the UICC, so that
the UICC applications can resolve the server IP address from the terminal name (localterminal).
Terminal UICC
TCP/IP server TCP/IP client
Name
Resolution

Figure 1: Local TCP/IP Client on UICC
4.2 Local server on UICC
In this configuration the UICC is a local server for a TCP/IP protocol, e.g. HTTP. The server is accessed only from the
terminal. This configuration requires proper configuration of the terminal naming services, so that the terminal can
resolve the UICC name (localuicc) to the UICC IP address.
Terminal UICC
TCP/IP Client TCP/IP server
Name
Resolution

Figure 2: Local TCP/IP server on UICC
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4.3 Remote client UICC
This configuration allows the UICC to act as a client for TCP/IP servers located on the internet. The network
configuration requires the following:
• naming services, so that the UICC can resolve the internet server name to the internet server IP address;
• routing services on the terminal, so that the card can send/receive IP packets to/from the internet server
through the terminal;
• address translation when configured with an IPv4 address, so that on the internet, packets to and from the
UICC have the IP address of the UICC replaced by the IP address of the terminal.
Operator’s network/ Terminal UICC
Internet
routing
(address translation
TCP/IP server TCP/IP client
in IP v4)
Name Server or
Name
Resolution

Figure 3: Remote TCP/IP client on UICC
4.4 Remote server on UICC
This configuration allows the UICC to act as a server for TCP/IP client located on a remote network (subject to
limitations that may be set by the operator). The network configuration requires the following:
• Naming services, so that the internet client can resolve the UICC server name to the UICC server IP address.
The way address resolution is performed in the network is out of the scope of the present document.
• Routing services on the terminal, so that the UICC can send/receive IP packets to/from the internet client
through the terminal.
• Address translation when configured with an IPv4 address, so that on the internet, packets to and from the
UICC have the IP address of the UICC replaced by the IP address of the terminal.
• Port forwarding when configured with an IPv4 address, so that the incoming connection request on some given
port numbers will be rerouted to the UICC. For IPv4, two port numbers are defined by the IETF to be used by
smart cards. The terminal shall route all the incoming traffic to these port numbers to the UICC.
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Operator’s network/ Terminal UICC
Internet
routing
(address translation
TCP/IP client TCP/IP server
in IP v4)
Port forwarding
Name Server or
Name
Resolution

Figure 4: Remote TCP/IP server on UICC
5 Protocol Stack
The protocol layers that are considered in the present document are represented in figure 5.

Application 1 Application 2 Application 3 Application 4


Applications layer

described in

relevant

specifications


HTTP SMTP HTTPS

TLS


Transmission Control (TCP)/ User Datagram (UDP) Protocols
Described in the

current document
Internet Protocol (IPv4/IPv6), ARP, ICMP


IP packets transport (e.g. Ethernet Emulation)

UICC - Terminal
UICC Terminal Interface
Interface
PHYSICAL LAYER

Figure 5: TCP/IP over UICC-Terminal Interface protocol stack
In figure 5, the IP, ARP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, TLS, HTTP and HTTPS layers are as standardized by the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) in references indicated below.
A UICC and a terminal supporting the present specification shall support the following protocols:
• IP V6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) [7], Neighbour discovery [12] and ICMPv6 (Internet Control Message
Protocol) [8].
• IP V4 (Internet Protocol Version 4) [1] and ICMPv4 (Internet Control Message Protocol) [3].
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• TCP (Transport Control Protocol) [4].
• UDP (User Datagram Protocol) [i.8].
• ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) [2] which is used to retrieve the MAC address when the UICC-Terminal
interface only carries Ethernet frames.
• DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) [5] in client mode for the UICC.
Optionally, the following additional protocols may be supported:
• DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) [5] in server mode for the terminal.
• TLS (Transport Layer security) [i.2] or other Security protocols as profiled in relevant ETSI specifications.
• DNS (Domain Name System) [i.6].
As an example applicative protocols could include HTTP (Hypertext Transport Protocol) [i.3] and HTTP Over
TLS [i.2]. Other applicative protocols such as FTP (File Transfer Protocol) [i.4], SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol) [i.5], POP [5] and IMAP [i.1] may additionally be supported.
Applications needing to access information stored in the UICC file structure defined in ETSI TS 102 221 [11] may
define how this is performed using the applicative layer they rely on. For example, some applications may use HTTP
URI requests while others may rely on FTP.
6 UICC and Terminal components requirements
6.0 Introduction
In the IETF terminology, an Internet communication system consists of interconnected packet networks supporting
communication among host computers using the Internet protocols. The networks are interconnected using IP routers or
gateways. A host computer is the ultimate consumer of communication services.
The Requirements for Internet Hosts as defined in IETF RFC 1122 [6] for IPv4 and IETF RFC 4294 [14] for IPv6 have
been used to build the present document.
6.1 UICC IP layer
6.1.0 General
Both IPv6 and IPv4 shall be supported, but support of IP fragmentation is not mandatory in IPv4.
6.1.1 IPv4/IPv6 interworking
To ensure a smooth transition and deployments, it is important to provide the capability to
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