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Subject: Re: [xcbf] [Fwd: What is the purpose of the XCBF standard?]
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
Alessandro
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Subject: Re: [xcbf] [Fwd: What is the purpose of the XCBF standard?]
03/20/02 01:37 PM
At 2002/03/20 10:41 -0800, 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
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
>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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> Griffin
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> To: "rms@computerbytesman.com" <rms@computerbytesman.com>,
> "phil.griffin@asn-1.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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