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Is the ETSI Secretariat responsible for the management of the Application Provider Codes for 3GPP ?

April 26, 2017application ETSI Management Provider responsible Secretariat

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Is the ETSI Secretariat responsible for the management of the Application Provider Codes for 3GPP ?

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The ETSI secretariat does not actually allocate these number – unique number are obtained by the coding scheme that is defined in 31.110. Application identifiers for consist of two parts – a RID and a PIX. The RID is simple: ISO/IEC have allocated the number ’A000000087’ to the 3GPP. This was allocated to ETSI on behalf of the 3GPP. The coding of the PIX is specified in annex B of 31.110. There are three different sorts of PIX: • 3G UICC, • 3G USIM, and • 3G USIM toolkit Each of these requires the use of the “Card issuer code” as defined in ITU-T recommendation E.118 [3]. This is a unique code given to each card issuer (for example, each GSM operator in the world has requested a card issuer code). So, any 3G operator that does not have a 2G system that uses SIMs will have to apply to the ITU-T in accordance with the procedures in E.118.