Re: [xcbf] [Fwd: What is the purpose of the XCBF standard?]

[Alessandro Triglia <sandro@oss.com>]

At 2002/03/20 15:02 -0800, Tyky Aichelen wrote:

>Hi Alessandro,
>I agree with you that with Biometrics, the number of applications is
>immense.
>"Life Sciences" is a term newly coined by the computer industry
>  and very widely used now by computer software and hardware vendors to
>designate this new field, which encompasses all applications related to
>Biometrics
>and beyond.
>"Life Sciences" in this context is a heterogenous industry with many ranges
>of
>different industry segments (Pharmaceutic R&D, biometrics, bioinformatics,
>genetics, eHealth (genomics), deep-computing (pattern analysis of genomic
>  -and proteomics - sequencing data), new chemical compounds,
>new foods, new drugs, new medical devices, etc.
>And that is not even an exhaustive list yet on serious topics.
>And sure enough, there are many other topics
>(not-so-politically-correct-to-talk-about
>or not) as well, such as "terrorist tracking network" that people sent to
>Phil below.
>
>Ha! Ha! Do we realize what we sign up to do? Do we hold
>in our hand the responsibility of  future mankind?
>
>Don't be scared. Together we can make it through XCBF standards. And I
>believe we are doing very useful and important work for the world
>community.
>Like you said, the purpose of XCBF is immense.
>We just need to define clearly the appl. areas we know as fact for now, and
>we say
>it is an "enabling technology"   opening the door to many others in the
>future.
>  Best regards,
>Tyky Aichelen
>Member OASIS XCBF TC


Wonderful, Tyky.  We are not scared!  I like your views.

By the way, is IBM engaged in some of those application areas?

Alessandro


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>At 2002/03/20 10:41 -0800, Tyky Aichelen wrote:
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> >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
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>Hi Tyky
>
>What do you mean exactly by "life sciences applications"?
>
>I believe the purpose of XCBF standards is much wider than just life
>sciences applications.  Biometrics, and transmission of biometric samples
>and templates, is an enabling technology for an immense number of
>applications.
>
>Alessandro
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> >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
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> >                       Phil
> > Griffin
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> >----- Message from "ASN1@MINDSPRING.COM" <ASN1@MINDSPRING.COM> on Wed, 20
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> >       To: "rms@computerbytesman.com" <rms@computerbytesman.com>,
> > "phil.griffin@asn-1.com"
> >           <phil.griffin@asn-1.com>, "mary_behr@ziffdavis.com"
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> >  Subject: RE: What is the purpose of the XCBF
> > standard?
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> >Original Message:
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> >From: Richard M. Smith rms@computerbytesman.com
> >Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:51:59 -0500
> >To: phil.griffin@ASN-1.com, Mary_behr@ziffdavis.com,
> >rms@computerbytesman.com
> >Subject: What is the purpose of the XCBF standard?
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> >
> >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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