RE: [humanmarkup-comment] First Working Draft of HM.Requirements

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Title: First Working Draft of HM.Requirements

"The Primary Base HumanML Schema MUST include a HumanIdentifier Element that is compatible with and interoperable with the U.S. Federal Government standards, standards accepted by a majority of Public Safety Institutions, Federal, State and Local Law Enforcement practices,HR-XML specifications, American Medical Association standards and any standards so designated by the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee. Thus, all HumanML modules should be compatible with and interoperable with these standards and recommended practices."

 

Beginning at the turn of the last centurythe process of identification in many public agencies relies not much on pure physical characteristics  (See Bertillon System - anthropometric identification).  It relies typically on fingerprints and DNA where identification must be absolute.  In other cases, simple processing may rely on a combination of  a current photo and physical characteristics.   The process of identification is typically matched to the need for correct identification.

There are very precise definitions extant and publicly available for live scan fingerprint systems and the information they are required to support.  DNA

systems are quite a bit more complex.

 

So our human identifier code elements have to be fairly limited in the primary schema.  Physical characteristics for LE systems will also be a

small set and not nearly as detailed as they would be for say, medical applications and perhaps even the VR systems.

 

Even the seemingly obvious and simple means such as recording names become complicated if inherited in a module that has a cultural

component.  Anthropometric means are better and biometric means are best.

 

len