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Introduction NIST ITL - ANSI Accredited Standards Developer The National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (P.L. 104-113) encourages Federal agencies, as well as state and local governments, to achieve greater reliance on voluntary standards.
To achieve our goals, NIST ITL works with industry and other agencies to develop information technology standards through voluntary consensus standards developing organizations. NIST ITL maintains a listing of our present participation in voluntary standards activities.
NIST ITL (and its predecessor organizations) has been accredited by ANSI as a standards developer since October 5, 1984. We are accredited to develop voluntary consensus standards as a sponsor using the ANSI Canvass Method for the following scope of activities:
"Standards and guidelines for information exchange relating to automatic data processing and related systems".
On a few occasions, NIST ITL has chosen to sponsor the development of an ANSI standard via the ANSI Canvass Method because of special government requirements or applications. Presently, NIST ITL has one approved multipart ANSI standard:
Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Other Biometric Information - Part 1 (ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2007)
Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Other Biometric Information - Part 2: XML Version (ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2008)
One major use of the standard is for the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, more commonly known as IAFIS, by U.S. law enforcement (local, state, federal). IAFIS is a national fingerprint and criminal history system maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division.
IAFIS uses the FBI Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification, or EBTS, to define the interface between the IAFIS and other agencies' systems. Using ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2007, the EBTS specifies the file and record content, format, and data codes necessary for the exchange of biometric identification information between Federal, State and local users and the FBI. |
