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APPENDIX B—GLOSSARY

AFIS Automated Fingerprint Identification System
ANSI American National Standards Institute ANSI Standard—Short-
hand for the American National Standard for Information
Systems—Data Format for the Standard for the Interchange of
Fingerprint Information
ATR AFIS Type Record (Type of Transaction or TOT)
CJIS Criminal Justice Information Services Division (of the FBI)
CTA Control Terminal Agency
DAI Destination Agency Identifier
EFIPS Electronic Fingerprint Image Print Server (the system at the
FBI which prints out electronically submitted fingerprint cards)
EFTS Electronic Fingerprint Transmission Specification—the FBI’s im-
plementation of the ANSI Standard
IACP International Association of Chiefs of Police
IAFIS Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System—the
FBI’s new system for integrating fingerprint comparisons with
criminal history record processing
IAI International Association for Identification
IRQ Fingerprint Image Request (TOT)
IRR Fingerprint Image Request Response (TOT)
ISP Internet Service Provider
LAN Local Area Network
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLETS National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System
NSA National Sheriffs Association
ORI Originating Agency Identifier
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SRT Search Results–Tenprint (TOT)
TBD To Be Determined
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TOA Type of AFIS (TOT)
TOT Type of Transaction
TPIS Tenprint Fingerprint Image Search (TOT)
WAN Wide Area Network—a way of connecting computer sites across the
country using special telephone lines, satellites, etc.
WSQ Wavelet Scalar Quantization (the compression method required
for submitting fingerprint images to the FBI)