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

[Phil Griffin <phil.griffin@asn-1.com>]

I agree completely. After forming the TC, I have very
much been overtaken by events. The OASIS announcement
has drawn much more attention that I had imagined that
it would, and I am unprepared to respond as best as I
could to media requests for comment.

Tomorrow I have an interview on XCBF with Internet Week.
And I have our message that needs to be conveyed to at
least two conferences at which I've been asked to speak.

Tyky, would you be willing to offer to held craft some
text we can all use in dealing with the media and public
that improves on what I've started on below? We need a
consistent message, and eventually we will need agreed
presentation materials. (I'm currently working on a
set of slides I had intended to use in Seoul and Washington
DC at biometric conferences.)

It would really be a great help if you could find the time
to take this writing task on, or even to agree to review 
what others bring forward.

Phil Griffin
Chair, OASIS XCBF TC


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 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
> 
> 
>                       Phil Griffin
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>  Subject: RE: What is the purpose of the XCBF standard?
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> Original Message:
> -----------------
> 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?
> 
> 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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