Totally agree!
Action Phil to update the standing document and Web page.
John L
Tyky Aichelen wrote:
>
> Dear XCBF Team,
> For the write-ups of our deliverables spec. , the type of detailed
> paragraph below:
>
> "The purpose of XCBF is to use the ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax
> Notation One standards of ISO-IEC and ITU-T - see www.asn1.org)
> schema defined in the ANSI financial services standard X9.84:200
> "Biometric Information Management for Security" (see www.x9.org)
> to create an XML markup representation of the biometric objects
> defined in the NIST CBEFF document that will support both of the
> binary patron formats in CBEFF in order to promote data exchange,
> and to make secure biometric information available to XML based
> applications and systems, by appliying the cryptographic processing
> and security requirements specified in the proposed X9.96 XML
> Cryptographic Message Syntax (XCMS) standard to a common biometric
> object."
>
> should be clear in giving the precise technical details.
> We may think of preceding it with a more general paragraph such as:
>
> "The purpose of XCBF standards is to enable interoperability between
> multi-vendor life sciences applications running on multi-vendor
> heterogenous computer and data systems. XCBF specifies
> a common and secured way for biometrics data formatting, storage,
> retrieval,
> and distribution."
>
> Then, it would be a clearer introduction, wouldn't it?
>
> Best regards,
> Tyky Aichelen
> Member of OASIS XCBF TC
>
>
> Phil Griffin
> <phil.griffin@asn To: xcbf <>
> -1.com> cc:
> Subject: [xcbf] [Fwd: What is the purpose of the XCBF standard?]
> 03/20/02 09:44 AM
>
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>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Richard M. Smith
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:51:59 -0500
> To: , ,
>
> Subject: What is the purpose of the XCBF standard?
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> I just ran across this article at PC Magazine:
>
> Biometrics to Get an XML Standard
> http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1490&a=24184,00.asp
>
> "If terrorists or those sympathetic to terrorists are
> identified and cataloged based on biology early on, then
> they could potentially be tracked via biometric devices
> in the future. Even so, biometrics-an automated process
> of identifying a person via a physical characteristic,
> like fingerprints-currently only helps identify individuals
> for purposes such as access to buildings, computers, bank
> accounts, and so forth. But what if biometric data became
> highly organized and transmittable via the Internet? To
> that end, OASIS, the interoperability consortium, today
> announced the formation of the OASIS XML Common Biometric
> Format (XCBF) Technical Committee, which will provide an
> XML standard for biometrics."
>
> Is this story really accurate? That is, the purpose of the XCBF
> standard is to facilitate the creation of a terrorist tracking network
> based on biometrics?
>
> The purpose of XCBF is to use the ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax
> Notation One standards of ISO-IEC and ITU-T - see www.asn1.org)
> schema defined in the ANSI financial services standard X9.84:200
> "Biometric Information Management for Security" (see www.x9.org)
> to create an XML markup representation of the biometric objects
> defined in the NIST CBEFF document that will support both of the
> binary patron formats in CBEFF in order to promote data exchange,
> and to make secure biometric information available to XML based
> applications and systems, by appliying the cryptographic processing
> and security requirements specified in the proposed X9.96 XML
> Cryptographic Message Syntax (XCMS) standard to a common biometric
> object.
>
> Phil Griffin
> Chair, OASIS XCBF TC
>
> Thanks,
> Richard M. Smith
> http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com
>
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