Biometric Identity Assurance Services

Synonyms

BIAS

Definition

Biometric Identity Assurance Services, or BIAS, is a collaborative standards project between the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), Technical Committee M1-Biometrics and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). BIAS provides an open framework for deploying and invoking biometric-based identity assurance capabilities that can be readily accessed using services-based frameworks. BIAS services provide basic biometric identity assurance functionality as modular and independent operations that can be assembled in many different ways to perform and support a variety of business processes.

Introduction

In reviewing the current biometric-related standards portfolio and service-oriented architecture (SOA) references, it became apparent that a gap exists in the availability of standards related to biometric services. There are several existing biometric-related standards describing how to format...