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TC51-TG1

Near Field Communications

ECMA-352 “NFCIP-2” 4th edition and ECMA-401 “CCCC PHY“ 2nd edition were published in December 2021.

Close Capacitive Coupling Communication

ECMA-401 1st edition was published in December 2011. It specifies the close capacitive coupling communication physical layer (CCCC PHY) for full duplex and broadcast communication in time slots on frequency division multiplex channels. It was also published ISO/IEC 17982 in August 2012 and April 2021. See the CCCC Explanatory leaflet for more information.

NFC security standards

Ecma published the NFC Security “Protocol and Services” as ECMA-385 and the “Cryptography Standard” using ECDH and AES” as ECMA-386. ISO/IEC published the standards as ISO/IEC 13157-1 and -2. See the NFC-SEC whitepaper and presentation for more details.

Ecma published the 2nd editions of “Cryptography standard using ECDH-256 and AES-GCM”, NFC-SEC entity authentication and key agreement using “Asymmetric cryptography” and “Symmetric cryptography” as ECMA-409, ECMA-410, and ECMA-411. ISO/IEC published the standards as ISO/IEC 13157-3, -4 and -5 respectively.

ECMA-415 1st edition was published in December 2016 and  specifies the definitions, rules and methods for the NFC-SEC-TEST standard and the necessary test apparatus. It was also published as ISO/IEC 22425 in November 2017.

NFCIP test standards

Ecma published the test standard for NFCIP-2 as ECMA-403 in June 2013 and it was also published  as ISO/IEC 19369 in August 2014.

NFC standards

See the protocol arrangement for the NFC subjects.

Publications that were originally developed by TC47 were transferred to TC51-TG1.