Standards Activity

Standards, a general set of rules to which all complying procedures, products or research must adhere, offer a myriad of benefits. They reduce differences between products and promote an aura of stability, maturity and quality to both consumers and potential investors.

Standards Bodies

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
International Standards Organization (ISO)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

International Committee for Information Technology Standards
M1 - Technical Committee on Biometrics¹

The Executive Board of INCITS established the Technical Committee M1, Biometrics, in November 2001 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 M1 program of work includes biometric standards for data interchange formats, common file formats, application program interfaces, profiles, and performance testing and reporting. The goal of M1's work is to accelerate the deployment of significantly better, standards-based security solutions for purposes, such as, homeland defense and the prevention of identity theft as well as other government and commercial applications based on biometric personal authentication.

M1 serves as the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (U.S. TAG) for the international organization ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 on Biometrics, which was established in June 2002. As the U.S. TAG to SC 37, M1 is responsible for establishing U.S. positions and contributions to SC 37, as well as representing the U.S. at SC 37 meetings.

More information my be obtained by visiting the INCITS M1 Web Site:

International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
M1 - Technical Committee on Biometrics Web Site

International Organization for Standards (ISO)
Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1 / Special Committee (SC) 37²

The International Organization for Standards (ISO) Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1 / Special Committee (SC) 37 is currently formalizing standards for biometric technology. The following working groups are focusing on these specific topics:

Committee	Title
JTC 1/SC 37/WG 1	Harmonized biometric vocabulary
	The convener can be reached through: SCC
JTC 1/SC 37/WG 2	Biometric technical interfaces
	The convener can be reached through: KATS
JTC 1/SC 37/WG 3	Biometric data interchange formats
	The convener can be reached through: DIN
JTC 1/SC 37/WG 4	Biometric functional architecture and related profiles
	The convener can be reached through: ANSI
JTC 1/SC 37/WG 5	Biometric testing and reporting
	The convener can be reached through: BSI
JTC 1/SC 37/WG 6	Cross-jurisdictional and societal aspects
	The convener can be reached through: UNI

More information my be obtained by visiting the JTC 1 / SC37 Web Site:

JTC 1 / SC 37 Biometrics Web Site

^{1 Description obtained from

http://www.ncits.org/tc_home/m1.htm.

2 Description obtained from

http://www.iso.org/iso/en/stdsdevelopment/tc/tclist/TechnicalCommitteeDetailPage.TechnicalCommitteeDetail?COMMID=5537.}

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