2006 INCITS Technical Committee Officers Symposium

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2006 INCITS Technical Committee Officers
Symposium

• Washington, DC
• INCITS M1 Biometrics
• Dr. James Cambier, INCITS M1.3 Vice-Chairman

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TC Scope

• The purpose of INCITS 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.
• The current program of work includes biometric
  technical interface standards, biometric data
  interchange formats and quality standards,
  conformance testing methodology standards,
  biometric profiles for interoperability and data
  interchange and biometric performance testing and
  reporting standards.
• INCITS M1 is the U.S. Technical Advisory Group
  (TAG) to ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC
  1) Subcommittee SC 37 - Biometrics which is
  developing a similar portfolio of biometric
  international standards.

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Significant Accomplishments

• Four INCITS and eight International standards
  were approved in the reporting period
• INCITS standards one data interchange format and
  three parts of a multi-part standard on biometric
  performance testing and reporting.
• International standards four biometric data
  interchange formats, three biometric technical
  interfaces and part 1 of the biometric
  performance testing and reporting multi-part
  standard.
• Since INCITS M1 and JTC 1 SC 37 inception a total
  of twelve INCITS standards and eight
  International standards have been published.
• Large organizations in the US and abroad have
  adopted many of the standards developed by INCITS
  M1 and JTC 1 SC 37 (the most significant
  accomplishment!)
• In the US DHS/TSA (Transportation Workers
  Biometric Profile for TWIC program and Face
  recognition data format for DHS), DoD (BioAPI and
  CBEFF), PIV program (finger minutia template,
  finger image format, face image data format and
  CBEFF).
• Internationally ICAO and ILO (the International
  Labour Office of the UN) have adopted a number of
  the data interchange standard formats developed
  by JTC 1 SC 37 (face image format, finger data
  formats and iris image format).
• INCITS M1 officers, experts, editorial and
  technical teams received the following awards
• 2005 Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee
  Management (Mr. Podio and Mr, Neumann)
• 2005 INCITS Excellence Award (Mr. Lazarick)
• 2005 INCITS Team Award to M1s Editorial team
  (Mr. Beatson, Mr. Samer, Mr. Grother, Mr. Thieme,
  Dr. Jones, Dr. Cambier and Mr. McCabe)
• 2005 INCITS Team Award to M1.5s Technical team
  (Mr. Grothre, Mr. Thieme, Mr. Lazarick and Mr.
  McCabe)
• INCITS M1 and JTC 1 SC37 work has been publicized
  in many technical conferences and in ISO
  publications (i.e., ISO Focus)

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Significant Challenges

• Adoption of standards-based high performance,
  interoperable systems will depend, in part, on
  the timely availability of biometric standards.
• Risk is mitigated by
• An accelerated development pace (both nationally
  and internationally)
• The use of IT tools
• Cooperation with users and other standards
  committees
• An excellent group of officers and experts and
  team work
• Tight program management.
• Addressing gaps in the program of work. These
  include addressing new users needs such as 3D
  face data interchange, support for multi-modal
  biometrics, and biometric data quality
  measurement.
• Increasing TC participation.

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Expected Challenges

• Harmonize biometric standards with related
  standards (e.g., security) under development in
  other standards bodies (e.g., ISO TCs and JTC 1
  SCs)
• We mitigate this challenge nationally by working
  in close collaboration with other INCITS TCs
  (e.g., CS1) and internationally through JTC 1 SC
  37 expert teams. These groups monitor related
  activities and contribute through established
  liaisons and Special Groups on these
  international related activities. This additional
  work (although challenging) encourages
  harmonization and minimizes duplicated effort.
• Address technology innovations, new trends in
  personal recognition technologies and users
  needs.
• We are addressing these needs by initiating new
  projects in support of these needs such as
  biometric technical interface standards in
  support of multi-modal biometrics and ten-print
  capture devices and conformance testing
  methodologies for biometric data format standards
  and interface standards.
• Revise many of the first generation of biometric
  standards based on these new users needs and
  technology evolution.
• Development pace
• It also introduces a challenge for everyone
  involved (M1 Officers and Member organizations
  and SC 37 NB experts and technical editors). In
  the reporting period, INCITS M1 membership and
  its officers posted over 1,000 documents to the
  M1 document register.

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Liaison Activities

• Most active INCITS M1 and JTC 1 SC37 liaison
  activities
• INCITS CS1, JTC 1 SC17 (use of biometric data in
  tokens) and JTC 1 SC 27 (biometric security
  evaluation, authentication context for
  biometrics)
• Newly-established liaisons
• OASIS (biometrics in web services)
• VoiceXML Forum (speaker recognition data format)
• M1 liaisons with biometric standards incubators
• BioAPI Consortium (who developed the BioAPI
  specification)
• International Biometric Industry Association
  (Registration Authority for CBEFF)

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Future Trends and Related Technical Activities

• Homeland defense is now the highest of priorities
  for many countries and international border
  security relies heavily on interoperable
  standards.
• The prevention of ID theft will become a
  significant market for biometrics.
• Standardized biometric-based solutions are
  becoming a mandatory requirement in many
  applications.
• INCITS M1 and JTC 1 SC 37 are rising to new
  challenges by examining innovations in biometric
  technologies and authentication systems and by
  working to support new users needs (e.g.,
  functionality enhancement of the existing
  standards and testing capabilities using
  standardized procedures (e.g., performance ,
  interoperability and conformance)).
• M1 has 57 member organizations 40 Voting
  Members, 9 Advisory Members and 8 Liaison
  Organizations. More than 125 experts participate
  in JTC 1 SC 37s work.
• Upcoming INCITS M1 meetings June, October and
  December 2006
• SC 37 upcoming meetings July 2006 (SC WGs and
  Plenary) and January 2007 (SC 37 WGs).
• International implications of the TC work
• Adoption of biometric standards by large
  organizations such as ICAO and ILO

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How Can We Help?

• INCITS Staff and the JTC 1 SC 37s Secretariat
  are doing a great job keeping up with demands of
  national and international accelerated standards
  development schedules. The INCITS M1 membership
  is very pleased with them.
• INCITS M1 has closely interacted with the INCITS
  Secretariat and the EB to help establish
  collaborative approaches with outside
  organizations (OASIS and the VoiceXML Forum are
  interested in working closely with INCITS M1).
  These efforts led to the establishment of
  fruitful Liaison relationships with these
  organizations and work on new related projects
  within M1 is ongoing.
• INCITS M1 has also interacted closely with the
  INCITS Secretariat (and indirectly with the SPB
  and the EB) to address the impact of
• International standards adoption
• Possible withdrawal of national standards
• Availability of withdrawn national standards to
  end-users and providers that still require them
• A recurring concern is the clarification of
  INCITS rules.