ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 - NIST Visual Image Processing Group ...

ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011Data Format for the Interchange of Biometric and Forensic Informationconsists of a variety of mandatory and optional items. This information isprimarily intended for interchange among criminal justice administrations ororganizations that rely on automated identification systems or use other biometricand image data and/or forensic markups of image data for identificationpurposes.2.2 PurposeInformation compiled and formatted in accordance with this standard may berecorded on machine-readable media or may be transmitted by datacommunication facilities. This information may have been gathered directly froma fingerprint scanner or from a variety of general or special-purpose devices suchas iris cameras, DNA processing systems, general-purpose cameras, or flatbedscanners (such are used to capture paper fingerprint cards, latent fingerprint liftsor photographs, facial/mugshot, or other types of photographs). Lawenforcement, criminal justice agencies, and other organizations that processbiometric data use the standard to exchange DNA, fingerprint, palmprint, plantar,facial, iris, scar, marks and tattoo (SMT), and related biometric identification data,as well as forensic markups of images of faces, fingerprints and irises.2.3 ConformanceSystems claiming conformance with this standard shall implement thetransmitting and/or receiving of record types as defined by this standardaccording to the pre-established rules of an encoding format (see Section 3).Systems claiming conformance are not required to implement every record typespecified herein. At a minimum, they must be capable of transmitting andreceiving Type-1 records. However, in order for a transaction to be meaningful,there must be at least one additional type of record included (other than RecordType-2, which is optional). The implementer must document the record typessupported in terms of transmitting and/or receiving. Those record types notimplemented shall be ignored by the conforming system receiving a transaction. 43 Encodings of the StandardAll versions of the standard through 2007 use only the Traditional encoding. The2008 version of the standard is equivalent to the 2007 version except that itdescribes the standard in NIEM-conformant XML encoding.The encoding rules were incorporated directly into all previous versions of thisstandard. This version of the standard is solely content based. The rules andnecessary files for the Traditional and NIEM-conformant encodings are posted atwww.biometrics.nist.gov/standard but are not a part of this version of thestandard itself. The standard does not now restrict encoding to any particularBrad Wing 6/19/10 5:07 PMComment: Additional mention of forensicsBrad Wing 6/19/10 5:07 PMComment: Clarification of wordingBrad Wing 6/19/10 5:07 PMComment: Clarification of wordingBrad Wing 6/19/10 5:07 PMComment: Conformance tools are referencedat the request of several persons. See thefootnote.•4 Some conformance assessment tools are available at www.biometrics.nist.gov/standard3DRAFT 2