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15-day Public Review for WS-Biometric Devices V1.0 – ends Jan 1st

The OASIS Biometrics TC members [1] have produced an updated Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for 15-day public review:

WS-Biometric Devices Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 02 / Public Review Draft 02
12 November 2014

Specification Overview:

WS-Biometric Devices, or WS-BD, is a command & control protocol for biometric devices. It uses the language for the web; proprietary knowledge of sensor interfaces are no longer required. Desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone applications can access sensors just as easily as they can navigate to a website.

TC Description:

The OASIS Biometric TC seeks to accelerate the use of biometrics through services and enhanced interoperability in distributed environments.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 18 December 2014 at 00:00 UTC and ends 01 January 2015 at 23:59 UTC. The specification was previously submitted for public review [2]. This 15-day review is limited in scope to changes made from the previous review. Changes are highlighted in the diff-marked PDF file [3].

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URIs:
The prose specification document and related files are available here:

PDF (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/biometrics/WS-BD/v1.0/csprd02/WS-BD-v1.0-csprd02.pdf

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/biometrics/WS-BD/v1.0/csprd02/WS-BD-v1.0-csprd02.html

HTML with inline tags for direct commenting:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/biometrics/WS-BD/v1.0/csprd02/WS-BD-v1.0-csprd02-COMMENT-TAGS.html

Editable source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/biometrics/WS-BD/v1.0/csprd02/WS-BD-v1.0-csprd02.doc

XML schemas:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/biometrics/WS-BD/v1.0/csprd02/schemas/

ZIP distribution files (complete):

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/biometrics/WS-BD/v1.0/csprd02/WS-BD-v1.0-csprd02.zip

Additional information about this specification and the OASIS Biometrics TC may be found on the TC’s public home page located at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/biometrics/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be accessed via the button labeled “Send A Comment” at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=biometrics

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/biometrics-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review of ‘WS-Biometric Devices Version 1.0’, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [4] applicable especially [5] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.

OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Biometrics TC
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/biometrics/

[2] Previous public reviews:
30-day public review, 24 September 2014: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201409/msg00012.html
– Comment resolution log: http://docs.oasis-open.org/biometrics/WS-BD/v1.0/csprd01/WS-BD-v1.0-csprd01-comment-resolution-log.xls and http://docs.oasis-open.org/biometrics/WS-BD/v1.0/csprd01/WS-BD-v1.0-csprd01-CBP-comment-resolutions.docx

[3] Redlined DIFF file:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/biometrics/WS-BD/v1.0/csprd02/WS-BD-v1.0-csprd02-diff.pdf

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr

[5] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/biometrics/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.2.2
RF on Limited Terms Mode