Adding New CBEFF Patron Formats

When existing Patron Formats are determined to be insufficient to meet the requirements and constraints of the intended implementation, new CBEFF Patron Formats can be added or created.

NISTIR 6529 suggests a procedure on how CBEFF Patron Formats can be created.

The CBEFF Technical Development Team has proposed that the recently established Biometric Interoperability, Performance, and Assurance Working Group, a new initiative sponsored by NIST and the Biometric Consortium, take on the responsibility to address requests for new CBEFF Patron Formats and coordinate with the requestor development of the new format.

In the request for a new format it is suggested that the requestor needs to include:

(1) The intended Domain Of Use (where will it be used and how it differs from the currently supported domains). A description of why one of the existing Patron Formats cannot be used is suggested.

 (2) Additional field descriptions that will be added (if known).

 (3) The reference document that will be created which describes the entire format and its use.

(4) The timeframe in which the new format will be developed.

The development of a CBEFF smart card format is planned. A proposal from the BioTrusT project of the Interfaces Group of TeleTrusT will be reviewed in the upcoming Biometric Interoperability, Performance, and Assurance Working Group February meeting. To visit the WG web site for information on the WG February meeting, please click here.

This development will address harmonization of the CBEFF smart card data format with existing ISO standards and current ISO developments (e.g., ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17/WG4 Working Draft “Personal Verification Through Biometric Methods in Integrated Circuit(s) Cards”).

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