NIST/ITL Procedures 

Development o

American National Sta

(ANS) Using the Canvas

ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard W

July 27-29, 2010

NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland 

Michael D. Hogan

Standards Liaison, NIST/ITL

+1 301 975 2926 

m.hogan@nist.gov
ANSI

http://ansi.org/

• Accredits ~ 200 standards deve• Approves procedures of standa

developers.

• Audits standards developers ev

years.

• Approves American National St

(ANS). 

• ~10,000 ANSs
Highlights of the AN

• consensus on a proposed stan

group or "consensus body" that representatives from materially interested parties; 

• broad-based public review an

draft standards; 

• consideration of and respon

comments submitted by voting 

the relevant consensus body anreview commenters; 
Highlights of the AN

• incorporation of approved c

draft standard; and 

• right to appeal by any particip

believes that due process princisufficiently respected during the development in accordance with accredited procedures of the stadeveloper. 
NIST ITL

http://www.nist.gov/itl/ansi/inde

• NIST/ITL (and its predecessor 

organizations) has been accredas a standards developer since 1984.

• Scope: "Standards and guidelin

information exchange relating data processing and related sy

• The next ANSI audit of NIST/I

scheduled for August 2011.
NIST ITL

American National S

• Data Format for the Interchang

Fingerprint, Facial, & Other BioInformation - Part 1 (ANSI/NIS

• Data Format for the Interchang

Fingerprint, Facial, & Other BioInformation - Part 2: XML Vers(ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2008) 

• ANSI/NIST-ITL 1a-2009 
NIST ITL Proced

http://www.nist.gov/itl/ansi/in

• ANSI Essential Requirements - J• NIST ITL ANS Procedures - App

2008 

• Canvas Method • NIST ITL ANS Process Flow Cha

2007
NIST ITL 

Procedural Highl

• NIST/ITL uses the canvass me

establish consensus (i.e., the cbody is the list of canvass mem

• NIST/ITL issues a call for mem

development of the canvass lis

• Additional canvassees may be 

NIST/ITL before the close of thballot period. 
NIST ITL 

Procedural Highl

• Canvass members have an obl

vote: 

– Affirmative; – Affirmative, with comment; – Negative, with reasons (the re

negative vote shall be given anshould include specific wording that would resolve the objectio

– Abstain (with comment). 
NIST ITL 

Procedural High

Criteria for Appro

“approval by at least a majority canvass list, excluding abstentiinvalid responses, and at least those voting, excluding abstentinvalid responses.” 
NIST ITL 

Procedural High

Invalid Response

“Negative votes without any acreason or abstentions without aaccompanying comment shall binvalid responses and shall not considered when determining trequirements for consensus.”
NIST ITL 

Procedural High

Appeals

“Persons who have directly and affected interests and who have may be adversely affected by a action or inaction of NIST/ITL sright to appeal.”
NIST ITL 

Procedural High

Appeals

• Cannot appeal technical conten• Right to appeal to NIST/ITL and 

ANSI.
NIST/ITL Revision 

• NIST ITL submitted a Project In

Notification System (PINS) Form June 29, 2010.

• Revision and consolidation of A

1-2007; ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2008ANSI/NISTITL 1a-2009 

• New title: Data Format for the 

of Biometric & Forensic Informa

• Designation: ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-
NIST/ITL Revision 

Scope Summary

“The above mentioned standards consolidated into one version tha'content based' with encoding insexternal to the standard (Traditioconformant XML and possibly othNew Record types and data fields to reflect stakeholder needs. The format of the standard will be surevised.”
NIST ITL submits

PINS form to ANSI 

for initiation of project 

to draft new or 

revised ANS.

ANSI lists PINS 

announcement in 

Standards Action for

30-day PINS public 

comment period.

NIST ITL develops

consensus body, 

starting with precanvass notice and 

invitation, which is 

posted on the ANSI/

NIST-ITL website. 

NIST ITL responds to

any PINS comments 

and 

develops canvass list.

NIST ITL issues 45-day 

ballot and submits to 

ANSI for concurrent 

45- day public review.

NIST ITL reviews 

all comments, decides 

on any changes, &

provides written notice 

to commenters to try 

to resolve comments.

NIST ITL issues 

30-day recirculation 

ballot.

YES 

NO

A 

B

Start

Any

substantive 

changes/unresolved

comments?

NIST ITL develops 

draft ANS for ballot.

NIST ITL may circulate 

working draft(s) for 

comment to develop

this draft."

NIST/ITL ANS Pro

This Flow Chart is to be used as a reference guide only. 

The authoritative procedures shall be the NIST/ITL ANS Development Process posted on its website.
ANSI 

Approval?

D

Y

NO

NIST ITL reviews

procedural issues

and decides on 

course of action.

C NIST ITL considers revising or

discontinuing 

project.

NIST ITL submits

draft ANS to ANSI

BSR for approval.

Appeal

upheld?

NO

Processing reverts

to prior stage based

upon the appeal 

decision.

YES

Procedural

complaints

?

YES

NO

NIST/ITL ANS Pro