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1. INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND

At the 1996 IAI Annual Training Conference, the AFIS Committee sponsored
a Panel designed to provide an educational experience for the IAI members in
the audience and to explore the possibility of establishing links between the
various state and regional AFIS systems, regardless of the hardware and soft-
ware vendor used to capture, store and compare the fingerprints.
Working with the major vendors of AFIS and scan equipment, the AFIS Com-
mittee, FBI, NIST and other law enforcement agencies, we developed a Concept
of Operations that outlined how remote searches might be performed. The
Concept of Operations explains the relevant U.S. standards and how they could
be implemented to support cross-jurisdictional, multi-vendor AFIS searches.
This document was also a basis for a series of cross-jurisdictional AFIS search
demonstrations.
Next, a Demonstration Test Plan was written for the 1997 tests that specified a
series of demonstrations to prove interoperability of AFIS systems and scanners.
These demonstrations employed the transmission, reception and processing of
image-based Types of Transactions (TOTs). Communication was via the Inter-
net using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Multi-purpose Internet
Mail Extensions (MIME).
Sagem Morpho, Inc. documented the agreed upon test message specifica-
tions for the 1998 testing in Inter-AFIS Message Specifications/NIST Record
Layouts/IAI Inter-AFIS Demonstration Project.

2. DEMONSTRATION PARTICIPANTS

All AFIS vendors were invited to participate in 1996. The following list reflects
the three AFIS vendors that participated in both last year’s and this year’s
testing, the operational customer sites and other involved parties.
AFIS Vendors:
Cogent Systems Alhambra, CA Vendor Facility
Ontario, CA Police Department (PD)
Printrak International Anaheim, CA Vendor Facility
NC Bureau of Investigation, Raleigh, NC
Sagem Morpho Tacoma, WA Vendor Facility
Arizona Dept. of Public Safety
Electronic Fingerprint Transmission Specification (EFTS) Software:
Aware, Inc. Bedford, MA Vendor Facility

Criminal Justice Communication Network
NLETS Phoenix, AZ