8.2 Available specifications and standards
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The Biometric Identity Assurance Services standard [BIAS] standardizes remotely invoked biometric services, particularly it defines a framework for deploying and invoking biometrics-based identity assurance capabilities that can be readily accessed using services-based frameworks (e.g., web services). Excluded from the scope is a) single platform functionality (e.g., client-side capture) and b) integration of biometric services within an authentication protocol. NIST Special Publication 500-288 Specification for Web Services Biometr ic Devices [WSBD], establishes specifications for access to, and command and control of, a target biometric sensor by enrollment or recognition clients via web services. As such, it leverages formal standardization of web services, and the wide availability of infrastructure and resources supporting such, to allow PIV implementers to maximize device-interface level interoperability i.e., the ability to replace a biometric sensor with minimal specialization. PIV implementers should consider the utility of [WSBD] and its supporting tools and documents. PIV implementers should also note the availability of standard BioAPI Function Provider Interfaces for the sensor [BIOAPI-SENS] and for archives [BIOAPI-ARCH], and the general BioAPI standards [BIOAPI, BIOAPI-GUI, BIOAPI-FF, BIOAPI-SEC]. The simpler version 1 predecessor [BIOAPI-US] also exists. These have similar goals to those of [WSBD] but take a different approach.