BIAS defines biometric services used for identity assurance that are invoked over a services-based framework. It is intended to provide a generic set of biometric and identity-related functions and associated data definitions to allow remote access to biometric services. To allow BIAS to be flexible to the amount and types of biographic and biometric information available to and used by a system, the terms biographic data and biometric data as used in this standard are very general. The binding of these services to specific frameworks is not included in this project, but will be the subject of separate standards. The first such standard (for a Web services framework) is planned to be developed by OASIS by the BIAS Integration Technical Committee.
