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Biometric Standards
Australian Biometrics Standards
Committee IT-032: Biometrics and Identification
This committee was formed by Standards Australia to cover Biometrics and Identification Technologies. The committee IT-032 met for the first time in October 2004 to establish a program of work for biometrics standardization in Australia. With representation from Commonwealth and State Government departments, industry associations, the Australian Consumers Association and the Biometrics Institute, and a number of outstanding nominations yet to be finalised, there is strong support for developing Australian and International Standards in the field of biometrics.
The initial program of work for this committee will be the review of and input to international standards, particularly those developed by the major international committee ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 (http://www.jtc1.org/sc37/), although it is anticipated Australian standards may be developed for submission to the international process in the future.
Visit: www.standards.org.au for more information or contact Andrew Caswell.
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International Biometrics Standards
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Voice Biometric Standards
W3C Voice Browser Working Group
The W3C Voice Browser Working Group seeks to develop standards to support secure access to the Web and Web services using biometric, speaker identification and verification (SIV). Interest in SIV is growing in both the private and public sector. That interest is motivated by a variety of factors, primarily cost and labor issues; convenience; and the growing number of regulations/laws governing data privacy and security that have been put in place exist at international, national, local, and industry levels.
Unlike other biometric technologies, speech recognition, and speech synthesis, there are no standards specifically governing the use of SIV. ISO/IEC 19784-1 (called “BioAPI”) is a generic, biometric application programming language that was designed to support SIV in non-telephony deployments. Its utility for SIV Web-services applications has not yet been fully explored. The three other SIV standards projects (Media Resources Control Protocol (MRCP V2) - Internet Engineering Technology Forum; NCITS 1821-D Speaker Recognition Format for Raw Data Interchange - VoiceXML Forum & InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards; and ISO/IEC 1.37.19794-13, Voice Data - International Standards Organization and the International Electrotechnical Commission) are all still under development.
Despite the growing interest in SIV, the lack of standards – especially for applications using Web Services – is a market and technology barrier.
Read more at the W3C website.
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Biometrics Institute Privacy Code and Standards
Code Subscribers must be aware of and take account of the relevant national and international standards for information protection and biometric systems which prevail from time to time. Depending on the jurisdiction and role of Code Subscribers these may include:
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AS/NZS ISO/IEC 17799:2001 Information technology - Code of practice for information security management, produced by Standards Australia
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AS/NZS ISO/IEC 27001:2006 Information technology - Security techniques - Information security management systems - Requirements
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Australian Communications Security Instruction (ACSI) 33 Australian Government Information and Communications Technology Security Manual, produced by the Defence Signals Directorate
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Australian Government's Protective Security Manual (PSM), produced by the Attorney-General's Department
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International Standards produced by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and their Australian adoptions, produced by Standards Australia, such as:
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ISO/IEC 19784-1:2006 Information technology - Biometric application programming interface - Part 1: BioAPI specification
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ISO/IEC 19785-1:2006 Information technology - Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework - Part 1: Data element specification
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ISO/IEC 19785-2:2006 Information technology - Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework - Part 2: Procedures for the operation of the Biometric Registration Authority
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ISO/IEC 19794-1:2006 Information technology - Biometric data interchange formats - Part 1: Framework
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ISO/IEC 19794-2:2005 Information technology - Biometric data interchange formats - Part 2: Finger minutiae data
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ISO/IEC 19794-4:2005 Information technology - Biometric data interchange formats - Part 4: Finger image data
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ISO/IEC 19794-5:2005 Information technology - Biometric data interchange formats - Part 5: Face image data
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ISO/IEC 19794-6:2005 Information technology - Biometric data interchange formats - Part 6: Iris image data
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ISO/IEC 19795-1:2006 Information technology - Biometric performance testing and reporting -- Part 1: Principles and framework
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Relevant travel document standards, produced by bodies including the International Civil Aviation Organization.
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Last updated: February 2009
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