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Recommendation A: Support the FBI/NIST/Vendor effort.

Recommendation B: Establish the LFIQ as the standard for cross-jurisdictional use in
the interim.

6.2. STANDARDS

The FBI-EFTS and ANSI-NIST Standards don’t address everything needed for
cross-jurisdictional interoperability. We had specific questions arise on the EFTS
that we plan to discuss when the IAI-AFIS Committee reconvenes in late July
1998.
Issue S-1: While the EFTS is key to cross-jurisdictional interoperability, there
is no governing body that certifies EFTS compliance (other than Appendices F
and G, Image Quality Specification).

Recommendation A: The IAI-AFIS Committee considers becoming the governing
body, or find an organization that will.

Recommendation B: The EFTS becomes an ANSI-NIST standard and is expanded to
accommodate cross-jurisdictional use.

Recommendation C: In order to implement Recommendation B, either NIST, the
IAI or FBI hold a series of workshops to review what is needed for cross-jurisdictional
use.

Issue S-2: Individual states and localities are implementing their own versions
of the standard by defining their own transaction types and Record Type-2 tags
(new field designators). This could inhibit future interoperability.

Recommendation: One near-term option is the FBI listing a description of all EFTS
Type-2 tags and transactions (including non-Federal) on their home page and/or
the IAI-AFIS Committee home page. This will allow local police departments to
standardize more easily.

Issue S-3: The EFTS was primarily designed for hierarchical transmission, i.e.,
transmission to the FBI. Thus, there arose several questions on how to accom-
modate non-FBI transmissions. Our approach to these is documented in
Appendix X. New transactions were devised for this testing.

Recommendation: The IAI-AFIS Committee takes the lead to identify and resolve
these issues.