Personal identification - ISO-compliant driving licence - Considerations for early adopters of ISO/IEC 18013-7

This document specifies considerations that can be of use to implementers and developers that elect to participate in work around updates to ISO/IEC TS 18013-7 . These considerations are intended to support the improvements, to maximize backward compatibility and to, at minimum, maintain the security and privacy properties already embodied in ISO/IEC TS 18013-7 . This document also provides additional information related to these considerations.

Identification des personnes — Permis de conduire conforme à l'ISO — Éléments à prendre en compte pour les premiers utilisateurs de l'ISO/IEC 18013-7

General Information

Status
Published
Publication Date
18-Dec-2025
Current Stage
6060 - International Standard published
Start Date
19-Dec-2025
Due Date
23-Jan-2028
Completion Date
19-Dec-2025

Relations

Effective Date
25-Jan-2025

Overview

ISO/IEC TR 25219:2025 provides targeted considerations for implementers and developers who are early adopters of ISO/IEC TS 18013-7 (mobile driving licence - mDL add-on functions). The technical report focuses on practical interoperability, maintaining security and privacy properties, and maximizing backward compatibility as protocols evolve. It also highlights related ecosystem initiatives such as the W3C Digital Credentials API and OpenID Foundation (OIDF) work.

Key Topics

  • Wallet and app interoperability: Advice to ensure that issuing authorities can work with mainstream wallets/apps where reasonable, avoiding lock-in to esoteric implementations while recognizing necessary discretion.

  • Binding presentment to request channel: Measures to prevent attackers from forwarding engagement/request information to an mdoc - i.e., binding presentment to the originating request channel as described in ISO/IEC TS 18013-7.

  • Minimizing reader-supplied data: Recommendations to reduce the amount of information an mDL reader must provide to the digital credentials API to retrieve data from the mdoc, protecting user privacy.

  • Verifier identification and attestation: Enabling mdoc readers to convey identifying and attestation information about the verifier to the mdoc, functionally similar to mdoc reader authentication certificates in ISO/IEC 18013-5.

  • Compatibility with existing messages: Delivering messages equivalent in function to DeviceRequest and accepting DeviceResponse as defined in ISO/IEC 18013-5, to allow reuse of existing mechanisms with minimal change.

  • Application-layer encryption: Implementation guidance to use asymmetric key algorithms to derive ephemeral symmetric keys for encrypting mdoc responses, leveraging the session transcript for key derivation as referenced in ISO/IEC TS 18013-7 and ISO/IEC 18013-5.

Applications

This report is practical for:

  • Government agencies and issuing authorities planning mDL rollouts.
  • Wallet and platform developers implementing W3C Digital Credentials API integrations.
  • Security architects ensuring privacy-preserving presentation of driving licence data.
  • Organizations participating in OIDF/HAIP or other request–response protocol development.

Benefits include clearer migration paths, reduced integration friction across wallets and readers, and preserved security/privacy guarantees during early deployments.

Related Standards

  • ISO/IEC TS 18013-7:2025 - mDL add-on functions (primary protocol referenced).
  • ISO/IEC 18013-5 - mDL application and DeviceRequest/DeviceResponse message models.
  • W3C Digital Credentials API - browser API for credential requests; TR 25219 discusses integration considerations.
  • OpenID Foundation initiatives (OpenID4VP / HAIP) - ongoing protocol work enabling Verifiable Presentations and high-assurance interoperability.

Practical note: TR 25219 is guidance-oriented; it encourages implementers to follow evolving protocol updates while preserving privacy, security and interoperability across wallets, platforms and readers.

Technical report

ISO/IEC TR 25219:2025 - Personal identification — ISO-compliant driving licence — Considerations for early adopters of ISO/IEC 18013-7 Released:19. 12. 2025

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ISO/IEC TR 25219:2025 is a technical report published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Its full title is "Personal identification - ISO-compliant driving licence - Considerations for early adopters of ISO/IEC 18013-7". This standard covers: This document specifies considerations that can be of use to implementers and developers that elect to participate in work around updates to ISO/IEC TS 18013-7 . These considerations are intended to support the improvements, to maximize backward compatibility and to, at minimum, maintain the security and privacy properties already embodied in ISO/IEC TS 18013-7 . This document also provides additional information related to these considerations.

This document specifies considerations that can be of use to implementers and developers that elect to participate in work around updates to ISO/IEC TS 18013-7 . These considerations are intended to support the improvements, to maximize backward compatibility and to, at minimum, maintain the security and privacy properties already embodied in ISO/IEC TS 18013-7 . This document also provides additional information related to these considerations.

ISO/IEC TR 25219:2025 is classified under the following ICS (International Classification for Standards) categories: 35.240.15 - Identification cards. Chip cards. Biometrics. The ICS classification helps identify the subject area and facilitates finding related standards.

ISO/IEC TR 25219:2025 has the following relationships with other standards: It is inter standard links to ISO/IEC TR 25219:2024. Understanding these relationships helps ensure you are using the most current and applicable version of the standard.

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Technical
Report
ISO/IEC TR 25219
Second edition
Personal identification — ISO-
2025-12
compliant driving licence —
Considerations for early adopters of
ISO/IEC 18013-7
Identification des personnes — Permis de conduire conforme
à l'ISO — Éléments à prendre en compte pour les premiers
utilisateurs de l'ISO/IEC 18013-7
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Introduction
[1]
ISO/IEC 18013-5 describes interface and related requirements to facilitate ISO-compliant driving licence
functionality on a mobile device, standardizing the mobile driving licence (mDL) functionality.
ISO/IEC TS 18013-7 augments the capabilities of the mDL by describing the interface and related
requirements for presentation to an mDL reader over the internet.
This document lists considerations for early adopters of ISO/IEC TS 18013-7, to the extent they are important
to an early adopter. The protocols defined in ISO/IEC TS 18013-7 continue to be improved. This means that
early adopters of ISO/IEC TS 18013-7 can expect to see updates in the future.

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