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The purpose of M1 is to ensure a high priority, focused,
and comprehensive approach in the United States for the rapid
development and approval of formal national and international generic
biometric standards. These standards are consider to be critical for
U.S. needs, such as homeland defense, the prevention of identity theft
and for other government and commercial applications based on biometric
personal authentication. The current program of work includes biometric
data interchange formats, exchange format frameworks, Application Programming
Intrefaces, application profiles, and performance testing and reporting
standards. M1 is the U.S. TAG to JTC 1 SC 37 - Biometrics which is developing
a similar portfolio of standards.
Since its establishment in November 2001, M1 has maintained
an accelerated pace of biometric standards development. M1 has
held 7 meetings, it has eleven approved "D" projects, one "S" project,
one "M" project and it is responsible for five "L" projects. During
2002, M1 formed the following Ad-Hoc Groups to addresss different
aspects of its program of work:
* AHGBISGF: M1 Ad-Hoc Group on Biometric Interoperability in
Support of the Government Smart Card Framework
* AHGAP: M1 Ad-Hoc Group on Application Profiles
* AHGBDIF: M1 Ad-Hoc Group on Biometric Data Interchange Formats
* AHGBPTR: M1 Ad-Hoc Group on Biometric Performance Testing
and Reporting
During 2003, M1 has created four Task Groups to handle its increased
activity in biometrics standards development:
* M1.1, the Task Group on Biometric Data Interchange Formats
* M1.2, the Task Group on Biometric Technical Interfaces
* M1.3, the Task Group on Biometric Profiles
* M1.4, the Task Group on Biometric Performance Testing and Reporting
M1 is addressing the approved "S" project ("Evaluation
of Multi-Biometric Systems") through an M1 Ad-Hoc Group and has also
established an Ad-Hoc on Cross Jurisdictional and Societal Issues to address
the US positions to JTC1 SC 37 WG 6 on Cross-Juristictional and Societal
Issues.
M1 work is being recognized by the industry and also users which are including preliminary references to the M1 draft standards in their requirements (compliance with ANSI 358-2002, the BioAPI specification is a DoD requirement, for example).
M1 has as of September 2003, fifty eight member organizations,
six of them are Advisory Members. M1 has Liaisons with INCITS B10, T4,
V2, and the following organizations: X9F4, NIST/BC Biometric WG, BioAPI
Consortium, the American Association of Airport Executives, and the International
Biometric Industry Association (IBIA).
A brief description of the four Task Groups current program of work follows:
M1.1, the Task Group on Biometric Data Interchange Formats
M1.1 focuses on the standardization of the content, meaning and representation of biometric data interchange formats. Currently, assigned projects are
Finger Pattern Based Interchange Format (*)
Finger Minutiae Format for Data Interchange (*),
Face Recognition Format for Data Interchange,
Iris Interchange Format (*),
Finger Image Based Interchange Format, and
Signature/Sign Image Based Interchange Format.
Hand Geometry Fomat for data Interchange
(*) These documents are dpANS and have been through an Initial Public Review.
M1.1 has formed an Ad-Hoc Group on Quality to address means of quatify
and to express and interpret the quality of a biometric sample. A draft
project proposal was approved by M1 in its August 2003 meeting .
M1.1 has twenty one members.
M1.2, the Task Group on Biometric Technical Interfaces
M1.2 covers the standardization of all necessary interfaces and interactions between biometric components and sub-systems, including the possible use of security mechanisms to protect stored data and data transferred between systems. M1.2 will also consider the need for a reference model for the architecture and operation of biometric systems in order to identify the standards that are needed to support multi-vendor systems and their applications. At the present time, it does not have responsibility for any national project. It only focuses on the related "L" projects (BioAPI specification and the Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework).
M1.2 has twenty members.
M1.3, the Task Group on Biometric Profiles
M1.3 focuses on the development of Application Profile projects. Projects assigned so far are:
M1.3 has twenty one members.
M1.4, the Task Group on Biometric Performance Testing and
Reporting
M1.4 handles the standardization of biometric performance metric definitions and calculations and approaches to test performance and requirements for reporting the results of these tests. M1.4 began its work with an approved project on Biometric Performance Testing and Reporting (**).
(**) As a result of the August 2003 meeting of M1, a revised project proposal will be sent to INCITS reflecting expansion of this project to a multi-part standard.
M1.4 has twenty two members.
As a result of these activities, the total program
of work of M1 since its inception is as follows:
|
|
"D" Projects Under Development |
"S" Projects |
"L" projects |
"D" or "S" Projects in Approval |
Published Standards |
Total |
|
M1 |
|
1 |
1 |
|
1 |
|
|
M1.1 |
7 |
1 |
7 |
8 |
||
|
M1.2 |
|
3 |
3 |
|||
|
M1.3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|||
|
M1.4 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
||
| TOTAL |
11 |
12 |
17 |
M1 has forwarded to INCITS twelve project proposals
during this period, seven associated with biometric data interchange
formats, three with biometric application profiles, one with biometric
performance testing and reporting, and one for a study project on
multi-modal biometrics.
M1 has advanced 4 documents (biometric data interchange
formats) to the stage that allowed them to be forwarded to INCITS
for Initial Public Review. Three of them (iris image, finger pattern-based,
and finger minutia) have been through an Initial Public Review.
As a result of the Initial Public Review, M1 made no substantive changes
to either document. They will be sent for Management Review. The fourth
document (finger image format) is under Initial Public Review which
closes on November 3rd, 2003.
M1 was a major technical contributor to the approved
JTC 1 SC 37 projects. The accelerated pace imposed on NBs in SC
37 has resulted in significant progress in this SC since its inception
in June 2002. M1 has contributed to its program of work with six data
interchange formats which became WDs (as revised by SC 37) as a result
of the SC 37 Special Group meetings in April 2003 (5) and September
2003 (1) and also contributed with proposed NPs for biometric profiles
and multiple technical contributions to many of the SC 37 approved
and proposed projects.
M1 also contributed to SC 37 the BioAPI specification
(ANSI INCITS 358-2002) and the Common Biometric Formats Framework
(augmented version of NISTIR 6529-2001 - CBEFF). The BioAPI specification
reached FCD status as a result of the SC 37 SG 2 September 2003
meeting (initial CD status was reached through a combined NP + CD
ballot as a result of the first SC 37 Plenary in December 2002). As
a result of the SC 37 SG 2 September 2003 meeting, the augmented
version of CBEFF reached CD3 status.
In addition, M1 has contributed to the SC 37 Program
of Work with technical editors/co-editors for all the data format
documents, editors for BioAPI and CBEFF, editors/co-editors for
the performance testing and reporting multipart standard and with
the Rapporteurs for some of the parts of the testing and reporting standard.
This significant progress, both nationallly and
internationally, represents thousands of hours of work by
volunteer officers, editors, and contributors. Over 420 documents
and presentations have been prepared by M1 during this period supporting
the technical and administrative activities of the M1 committee.
Another major accomplishment is also the report (M1/03-0398) of the M1 Ad-Hoc Group on Biometric Interoperability in Support of the Government Smart Card Framework (AHGBISGF). This group was formed by M1 to identify biometric interoperability requirements for the Government Smart Card Framework (GSCF) - NISTIR 6887-2003 Edition, GSC-IS (v2.1). Recommnedations of this Ad-Hoc group on how to extend GSCF to address biometric interoperability were sent to INCITS B10 as a contribution from M1. The almost 100 page report, also identifies proposed extensions to the BioAPI standard to achieve higher degree of interoperability with the GSC Government Smart Card Framework. It is expected that the result of this work will be taken internationally, through B10, to JTC 1 SC 17 as part of the proposed GSCF project and to JTC 1 SC 37 as extensions to the BioAPI especification.
The work of M1 and its related counterpart (JTC 1 SC
37) was publicized in the following publications during 2003:
"Biometric authentication - Are you who you claim
to be?", ISO Bulletin, M. D. Hogan, March 2003
“Biometric Standards -- A Key to a More Secure World”,
M. D. Hogan and F. Podio, ANSI Reporter: Spring 2003 – “Safe at
Home”, April 2003.
“Roles for NIST in Accelerating the Development of
Critical Biometric Consensus Standards for Homeland Security and
the Prevention of ID Theft”, F. Podio and M. D. Hogan, White
Paper, March 11, 2003
In addition, in the last twelve months, over 25 talks
were given in technical conferences by the M1 officers reflecting
the M1 program of work.
Adoption of biometric-based high performance, interoperable
systems will depend in part of the availability of the required
open systems biometric standards. The major challenge for M1 is the
timely development of the approved portfolio of the biometric standards
needed by vendors and other consumers. The challenge presented by the
accelerated development pace has been met by the M1 membership. However,
M1 needs to expand the membership to address approved (e.g., testing
and reporting standards) and new national projects (e.g., data format
quality standards and possible future standards work in multi-biometric
systems and conformity testing methodologies).
Biometric application profiles require substantial
user participation in order to reflect these users' needs. The
user' participation has significantly increased since the first quarter
of 2003 and therefore, substantial rewrites on two of the three approved
projects took place (Profiles for Border Crossing - currently migrating
towards "Border Management" and the Profiles on Transportation Workers
(a first M1 ballot was issued at the begining of September for this document).
The accelerated pace of M1 activities has extended in
part to liaison efforts as well. The biometric experts
in M1 are planning to contribute to related work in other national
and international activities. Internationally, SC 37 has requested
participation in a collaborative effort between JTC 1 SC 27 and ISO
TC 68 in the development of the international standard equivalent
to X9.84 (ISO/IEC WD 19092). A biometric security evaluation
effort in SC 27 will also require contributions from SC 37 experts.
M1 experts are expected to collaborate also in this effort through SC
37.
Further harmonization of biometric (and related technology standards)
will also require major efforts from the M1 experts. A challenge
for M1 is to expand the organizational and liasion membership.
January 16-17, 2002, Washington, DC (M1 - 1st)
April 30, 2002, Washington, DC, (OSAHG)
May 6 - 7, 2002, Gaithersburg, MD (M1 - 2nd)
July 11, 2002, Washington, DC (AHGAP - 1st)
July 12, 2002, Washington, DC (AHGBDIF 1st)
August 19 - 22, 2002, Falls Church, VA - 19 (AHGBDIF 2nd), 20 (AHGAP - 2nd), 21-22 (M1 - 3rd)
October 29 - 31, 2002, Washington, DC, 29 (AHGBPTR 1st), 30 (AHGBDIF 3rd), 31 (AHGAP 3rd)
December 2 - 3, 2002, Somerset, NJ (M1 - 4th)
January 9th, 2003, Washington, DC, (AHGBISGF 1st)
February 4 - 7, 2003, Washington, DC, 4 (AHGPTR 2nd), 5 (AHGBDIF 4th), 5-6 (AHGAP 4th), 7, 2003 (AHGBISGF 2nd)
March 10-14, 2003, Orlando, FL, 10-11 (AHGBISGF - 3rd), 10 (AHGBPTR 3rd), 11 (AHGBDIF 5th), 12 (AHGAP 5th), 13-14 (M1 - 5th)
April 21, 2003 (teleconference meeting) - M1.1 (1st)
April 24, 2003, Washington, DC (AHGBISGF 4th)
May 15, 2003, Orlando, FL (AHGBISGF 5th)
June 9 -13, Seattle, WA (M1 - 6th, M1.1 - 2nd, M1.2 - 1st, M1.3 - 1st, M1.4 1st, AHGBISGF- 6th)
July 7, 2003, Washington, DC, M1 Ad-Hoc Group on Cross Jurisdictional and Societal Issues (AHGCJSI)
July 18, 2003, (teleconference meeting) (AHGBISGF 7th)
July 23, 2003, (teleconference meeting) M1.3 Ad-Hoc Group on Biometric Profiles (Harmonization)
July 28, 2003, Washington, DC, M1 Ad-Hoc Group on Application Profile for Border Crossing
July 29, 2003, (teleconference meeting) M1.1 Ad-Hoc Group on Biometric Sample Quality
August 18-22, 2003, Falls Church, VA (M1 - 7th, M1.1 - 3rd, M1.2 - 2nd, M1.3 - 2nd, M1.4 - 2nd, AHGBISGF - 8th)
September 25, 2003, Crystal City, Arlington, VA (AHGEMS)
* OSAHG: M1 Ad-Hoc Group on Organization and Strategy
* AHGBISGF: M1 Ad-Hoc Group on Biometric Interoperability in
Support of the Government Smart Card Framework
* AHGAP: M1 Ad-Hoc Group on Application Profiles
* AHGBDIF: M1 Ad-Hoc Group on Biometric Data Interchange Formats
* AHGBPTR: M1 Ad-Hoc Group on Biometric Performance Testing
and Reporting
* AHGEMS: M1 Ad-Hoc Group on Evaluating Multi-Biometric
Systems
Nov 3-6, 2003, Morgantown, WV
Jan 12 - 16, 2004, NY, NY
Future M1 meetings will be planned based on the international
SC 37 meeting schedule for 2004.
M1 maintain liaison with the following organizations:
Liaison is maintained with INCITS (InterNational Committee
for Information Technology Standards) to keep the committee informed
of the actions of the INCITS organization and the progress of our
projects within INCITS. See http://www.incits.org/
for further information.
The technologies addressed by INCITS B10 and M1 are,
for some applications, complementary in nature. The potential
contribution of M1 to the SC 17 projects (trough B10) is apparent.
In particular in the utilization of biometric data within travel
documents and ID cards. Close and timely collaboration between these
two INCITS TCs is maintained. M1 made a substantial contribution in
the last month to the B10 work with SC 17. An M1 Ad-Hoc developed recommnedations
on extensions to the Government Smart Card Framework to address biometric
interoperability.
For more information about B10 see http://www.incits.org/tc_home/b10.htm
Strong synergy exists between biometrics and IT security. The complementary nature of both programs of work is expected to lead to further close and long term collaboration between experts from both TCs. M1 plans to actively pursue constructive contributions to the T4 projects. An specification (Biometric Template Protection Techniques) developed by an outside organization, the NIST/Biometric Consortium Biometric Working Group (a liaison to M1) will be offered to T4 as a contribution to the international work of JTC 1 SC 27 (if approved by T4).
The Biometric Consortium serves as the U.S. government focal point for research, testing, evaluation and application of biometric-based personal verification and identification technologies. A working group established by NIST and the Biometric Consortium, the NIST/BC Biometric Working Group, has been working over the last two years to develop biometric specifications that can be turned over to formal standards bodies such as INCITS M1 and JTC 1 SC 37. In the last year NIST/BC Biometric Working Group approved and provided to INCITS M1 three specifications for consideration as national and international standards: (a) Biometric Template Protection and Usage; (b) Biometric Application Programming Interface for Java Card TM; and (c) an augmented version of the Common Biometric Exchange File Format (NISTIR 6529-A).
The BioAPI Consortium was formed to develop a widely available and widely accepted Application Programming Interface to serve any type of biometric technology. It has over 100 members from industry and other organizations. Additional information about the BioAPI Consortium can be found at www.bioapi.org.
The membership lists for TC M1 and its TGs are available
on the M1 website under the members button.
The officers of TC M1 and its TGs are shown below.
Fernando L. Podio
National Institiute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Dr., MS 8951
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8951
USA
Phone: (301) 975-2947
Fax: (301) 869-7429
E-mail: fernando.podio@nist.gov
Bioscrypt Inc.
5450 Explorer Drive, Suite 500
Mississauga, ON Canada L4W 5M1
Phone 905-624-7707
Fax: (905) 624 7745
E-mail: colin.soutar@bioscrypt.com
SAFLINK CORPORATION
11417 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 106
Reston, VA 20190
USA
Phone: 703-708-9280
Fax: 703-708-0014
E-mail: ctilton@saflink.com
Purdue University
307 Knoy, Dept. of Industrial Technology
West Lafayette, IN 47907
USA
Phone 765-532-5108
Fax 765-496-2700
E-mail: sjelliott@tech.purdue.edu
Sagem Morpho, Inc.
1145 Broadway Plaza, #200
Tacoma, WA 98402
USA
Phone: 253-591-8868
Email: creedj@morpho.com
Dr James Cambier
121 Whittendale Drive, Suite B
Moorestown, NJ 08057
USA
Phone 856-222-9090
E-mail: jcambier@iridiantech.com
Greg Cannon
Cross Match Technologies, Inc.
Address 3960 RCA Blvd.
Suite 5001
Palm Beach Gardens , FL 33410
USA
Phone 561-622-1650
Fax 561-622-4278
E-mail greg.cannon@crossmatch.com
The Biometric Foundation
65 Douglas road
Lamsbale, PA 19446
USA
Phone 215-527-6717
Fax 301-990-9405
E-mail: fherr@idtp.com
Biocom, LLC
952 Echo Lane, Suite 322
Houston , TX 77024
USA
Phone 713-984-8994
Fax 713-984-9232
E-mail wkyle@biocom.tv
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Dr., MS 8951
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8951
USA
Phone: (301) 975-2947
Fax: (301) 869-7429
E-mail: fernando.podio@nist.gov
BAH (representing DoD BMO)
Address: 8283 Greensboro Drive,
Allen Bldg room 804
McLean, VA 22102
USA
Phone: 703-902-5388
Fax: 703-902-3535
E-mail: randall_rick@bah.com
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP
Address 12506 Lake Underhill Road
Orlando, FL 32832-5714
USA
Phone 407-306-4771
Fax 407-306-6959
E-mail ronald.d.sutton@lmco.com
Organization International Biometric Group
Address One Battery Park Plaza, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10004
USA
Phone 212-809-9491
Fax 212-809-6197
E-mail mthieme@biometricgroup..com
The importance of biometric technologies has dramatically
increased because of the events of September 11, 2001. Homeland
defense is now the highest of priorities for many countries. These
countries are now seriously considering or have already approved new
legislation that calls for the investigation and use of biometric technologies
as soon as possible for homeland defense applications. The prevention
of ID theft will also become a significant market for biometrics in the
future. Accounting for systems developers, resellers and the influence
that biometrics will have in other industries and the IT industry (i.e.,
security industry), biometric technologies are expected to be a substantial
catalyst for the global IT market in these applications. The expected
growth of the biometrics market, however, is placing a greater demand
on the international biometric industry, biometric system developers,
researchers and end-users to work together to address in cooperation
a number of issues including privacy, testing and evaluation, infrastructure,
cost, scalability and open system interoperability and data interchange.
M1 and SC 37’s efforts will help to ensure that future standards-based
systems and applications are more interoperable, scalable, reliable, and
secure.
M1 is developing a first generation of formal biometric
data interchange standards. Advances in biometric technology research
and development might require in the future a second generation of
these standards (e..g, 3-D face). The portofolio of biometric
application profiles is expected to growth. Health Care, Enterprise
systems and access control applications may lead to the development
of profiles for these applications.
Industry consortia remain an important source of new
standards activities. M1 will continue to relay of
standards incubators such as the Biometric Consortium as source of
guidance and specifications. We have seen at
least one case recently that elected to use INCITS fast-track standardization
as the primary mechanism for carrying the documents forward into
the standards world, the augmented version of CBEFF (NISTIR 6529-A).
We have seen a second case where M1 has invited
an outside organization (NIST/BC Biometric WG) to submit one of its specificaitons
for further standardization (biometric template protection and usage
- M1 has determined that this specificaiton should be offered to T4
as a candidate for a US contribution to SC 27). The heavy workloads and
highly technical environments associated with our activities lead
to some electronic meetings. This approach has been used for some of
the Ad-Hoc meetings and even an initial TG meeting (M1.1). However, most
of the TG meetings and all of the M1 meeting, have beenphysical meetings.
M1 meeting activities are financed and hosted by volunteer
organizations. The individual participants and their member
organizations finance all travel, room, and related business
expenses. M1 has no direct financial activities.
Web-based/electronic document distribution procedures:
From its inception in November 2001 M1 has operated through electronic document distribution (M1 reflector for members). All M1 documents are posted in a web-based document register (WEB URL). Documents are posted in the document register by INCITS personnel. M1 and M1 TG officers have access to an automated document numbering system.
The full details (company, address, phone, e-mail
etc.) of M1 and M1 TG officers are available on-line through the
INCITS web site. At the present time M1 does not have a web-based
Letter Ballot scheme in place. The M1 officers are responsible for
issuing the M1 letter ballots electronically through the M1 email reflector.
Documents for each meeting (M1 and TGs) are posted
in advance according to the INCITS rules and offered to the M1
membership in ZIPPED files posted in the M1 web site before the meetings.
At the first M1 meeting, approved a motion to encourage INCITS to continue to support the rapid advancement of generic biometrics standards development. M1 stated that "this development work should not be delayed while decisions are reached concerning the ultimate placement of this work within ISO/IEC JTC 1". Due to the uncertainty where the international generic biometric standards development work was going to be placed M1 also decided to issue a letter ballot requesting to INCITS that M1 be given the U.S. TAG assignment of the generic biometric work in ISO/IEC JTC 1, wherever this work was placed.