45-day Public Review for BIAS SOAP Profile Version 1.0

[Robin Cover <robin@oasis-open.org>]

To OASIS Members, Public Announce Lists:

The OASIS Biometric Identity Assurance Services (BIAS) Integration
TC members have recently produced an updated Committee
Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for
45-day public review:

Biometric Identity Assurance Services (BIAS) SOAP Profile Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 03 /
Public Review Draft 02
23 February 2011

Overview: The BIAS SOAP Profile specifies XML encoded SOAP
messages to exchange biometric data and perform biometric-based
identity operations. These SOAP-based services enable an
application to invoke biometric identity assurance operations
remotely within a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA). BIAS
is intended to provide a common, yet flexible, Web services
interface that can be used within both closed and open SOA
systems. The BIAS SOAP Profile is a companion document to
ANSI INCITS 442-2010 -- Biometric Identity Assurance Services.

The OASIS BIAS Integration TC [1] complements the efforts of the
InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
(INCITS), www.incits.org, to provide the biometrics and security
industries with a documented, open framework for deploying and
invoking identity assurance capabilities that can be readily
accessed as services. The OASIS BIAS Integration TC defines and
describes methods and bindings by which the INCITS BIAS
framework can be used within XML-based transactional Web services
and service-oriented architectures.

Public Review Period:  The public review starts today,
26 February 2011 and ends 12 April 2011. The specification was
previously submitted for a 60-day public review on 31 Jan 2010
[2]. This 45-day review is limited in scope to changes made from
the previous review of 31 Jan 2010. Changes are highlighted in
the diff-marked PDF file [3].

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback
from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS
members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability
and quality of its technical work.

URIs: The prose specification document and related files are available here:

Editable Source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/bias/soap-profile/v1.0/csprd02/biasprofile-v1.0-csprd02.doc
HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/bias/soap-profile/v1.0/csprd02/biasprofile-v1.0-csprd02.html
PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/bias/soap-profile/v1.0/csprd02/biasprofile-v1.0-csprd02.pdf
WSDL:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/bias/soap-profile/v1.0/csprd02/BIAS.wsdl

Diff version noting changes or change log:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/bias/soap-profile/v1.0/csprd02/biasprofile-v1.0-diff-cd01-csd03.pdf

ZIP archive:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/bias/soap-profile/v1.0/csprd02/biasprofile-v1.0-csprd02.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS
Biometric Identity Assurance Services (BIAS) Integration TC
may be found at the TC's public home page located at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/bias/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use
of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the
button labeled "Send A Comment" at the top of the TC public home
page, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=bias

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other
work of this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/bias-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback
License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same
obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In
connection with this public review of 'Biometric Identity Assurance
Services (BIAS) SOAP Profile Version 1.0', we call your attention
to the OASIS IPR Policy [4] applicable especially [5] to the work
of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be
familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding
the disclosure and availability of a member's patent, copyright,
trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS
specification. OASIS invites any persons who know of any such
claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the
implementation of the above specification, so that notice of
them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

- rcc

Robin Cover
Interim TC Administrator
OASIS, Director of Information Services
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========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Biometric Identity Assurance Services (BIAS) Integration TC
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/bias/

[2] Previous public review (31 January 2010)
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201001/msg00008.html

[3] Diff cd01 vs csd03
    http://docs.oasis-open.org/bias/soap-profile/v1.0/csprd02/biasprofile-v1.0-diff-cd01-csd03.pdf

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[5] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/bias/ipr.php
    http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#s10.2.3
      RF on Limited Terms Mode IPR Mode