NEW FINGERPRINT STANDARD APPROVED.NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. revised the standard and managed the ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. approval procedures for the Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Scar Mark & Tattoo (SMT (1) (Surface Mount Technology) See surface mount. (2) (Station ManagemenT) An FDDI network management protocol that provides direct management. Only one node requires the software. SMT - Station Management ) Information, ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000. The new version consolidates two previous standards published in 1993 and 1997. Two hundred federal, state, local, and international law enforcement agencies, criminal justice administrations, vendors, and other organizations participated in the development of the standard. The document is available in hardcopy as NIST Special Publication 500-245 and may be downloaded from the Web at www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.03/fing/fing.html. The standard defines the content, format, and units of measurement Units of measurement Values, quantities, or magnitudes in terms of which other such are expressed. Units are grouped into systems, suitable for use in the measurement of physical quantities and in the convenient statement of laws relating physical quantities. for the exchange of fingerprint, palmprint, facial, and SMT information that may be used in the identification of a subject. Exchanged information consists of several items, including record data, digitized characteristic information, and compressed or uncompressed fingerprint, palmprint, facial, and SMT images. The standard forms the basis for interoperability between federal, state, local, and international users of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS AFIS Automated Fingerprint Identification System AFIS Aerodrome Flight Information Service AFIS Armed Forces Radio and Television Service AFIS Airborne Flight Information System AFIS Automated Fingerprinting Identification System (Pakistan) ) for the interchange of fingerprint search transactions. All agencies involved in the electronic transmission of fingerprint, palmprint, facial, and SMT images and related data must adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. the format described by the standard. Dissimilar vendor equipment belonging to agencies submitting fingerprint images to the FBI must also adhere to the standard. In addition to being able to successfully submit fingerprint search transactions to the FBI, agencies that adhere to the standard can also effectively exchange fingerprint search transactions among themselves even though their systems are manufactured by different vendors. The FBI has been a supporter during the development of this standard, and has required that its AFIS system vendors comply with the provisions of the standard. |
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