ANSI/INCITS
and ISO/IEC
Biometric Standards
(Revised September 9, 2009)
Report on Biometrics and E-Authentication
(Revised September 9, 2009)
Report on Biometrics and E-Authentication
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ANSI/INCITS
and ISO/IEC
Biometric Standards
(Revised September 9, 2009) Report on Biometrics and E-Authentication |
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M1
- Biometrics
| INCITS/M1, Biometrics Technical
Committee was established by the Executive Board of INCITS in November
2001 to ensure a high priority, focused, and comprehensive
approach in the United States for the rapid development and
approval of formal national and international generic biometric
standards. The M1 program of work includes biometric standards
for data interchange formats, common file formats, application
program interfaces, profiles, and performance testing and reporting.
The goal of M1's work is to accelerate the deployment of significantly
better, standards-based security solutions for purposes, such
as, homeland defense and the prevention of identity theft as well
as other government and commercial applications based on biometric
personal authentication.
M1 serves as the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (U.S. TAG) for the international organization ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 on Biometrics, which was established in June 2002. As the U.S. TAG to SC 37, M1 is responsible for establishing U.S. positions and contributions to SC 37, as well as representing the U.S. at SC 37 meetings.
2010 INCITS
M1/Task Groups Meeting Schedule: Meeting logistics found here. • June 21 -
25, 2010 M1 and SC 37 Files The link to the zip files of the meeting agendas and associated M1 and JTC 1/SC 37 documents can be accessed once logged into ICMS. |
M1
Officers:
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INCITS/M1 has four Task Groups that have been assigned to facilitate the Biometrics work in specific segments: |
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M1.2,
the Task Group on Biometric Technical Interfaces and Profiles covers
the standardization of all necessary interfaces and interactions
between biometric components and sub-systems, including the
possible use of security mechanisms to protect stored data and
data transferred between systems. M1.2 is responsible for the
development of biometric application profiles. M1.2 will also consider
the need for a reference model for the architecture and operation
of biometric systems in order to identify the standards that are
needed to support multi-vendor systems and their applications.
M1.2 is the U.S. TAG to SC 37/WG2 - Biometric Technical Interfaces and SC 37/WG4 - Biometric Functional Architecture and Related Profiles. |
M1.2 Officers:
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| M1.3 the Task Group
on Biometric Data Interchange Formats is responsible for hte standardization
of the content, meaning and representation of biometric data interchange
formats, biometric sample quality standards and conformance testing methodologies
for biometric data interchange format standards. M1.3 serves as the U.S. TAG to SC 37/WG3 - Biometric Data Interchange Formats |
M1.3 Officers:
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| M1.5 is the
Task Group on Biometric Performance Testing and Reporting handles the standardization
of biometric performance metric definitions and calculations,
approaches to test performance and requirements for reporting
the results of these tests. M1.5 is responsible for the development
of a Multi-Part Standard on Biometric Performance Testing and
Reporting. M1.5 is the U.S. TAG to SC 37/WG5 - Biometric Testing and Reporting |
M1.5 Officers:
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| M1.6, the Task
Group on Cross Jurisdictional and Societal Issues addresses study
and standardization of technical solutions to societal aspects
of biometric implementations. Excluded from the TG's scope is
the specification of policies, the limitation of usage, or imposition
of non-technical requirements on the implementations of biometric
technologies, applications, or systems. M1.6 is responsible for US
technical contributions to JTC1 SC 37 WG 6 on Cross-Jurisdictional and
Societal Issues. M1.6 is the U.S.TAG to SC 37/WG6 - Cross-Jurisdictional and Societal Aspects of Biometrics. |
M1.6 Officers:
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Comments and questions can be sent to the INCITS Secretariat at incits@itic.org