>the spec should be better than "a 14 digit number"
Actually even that would be wrong.
The spec for credit cards includes 13- to 16-digit numbers as well.
The spec would be, roughly, "a 13-to-16-digit Luhn number beginning with one of a list of prefixes."
There's an article about it here and a Perl implementation for checking here
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