On April 20, 2007, ANSI's Board of Standards Review approved ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2007 as an ANSI standard. This approved revision of the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000 standard is available and can be downloaded as NIST Special Publication 500-271: Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Other Biometric Information - Part 1 (ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2007) .

Following this revision, a workshop to discuss the development of a Part 2, XML version, of the standard was held September 18, 2007. A draft of the XML standard was released for comment in March 2008, and major issues were discussed at a meeting/telecon held May 8th, 2008. More information on this past draft and meeting can be found here .

On May 31, 2008, the proposed standard was completed, and registered canvassees were asked for their approval of the proposed standard. At the close of the ballot period on July 14, 2008, 46 affirmative ballots had been returned together with just over 20 comments, which were used to correct errors and clarify points throughout the document. None of the modifications made to the balloted document were substantive in nature. No negative votes were returned.

In accordance with the NIST/ITL Procedures used for the development of American National Standards, the proposed standard was submitted to ANSI for their review of the procedures used to develop this standard. On August 12, 2008, ANSI's Board of Standards Review approved it as an ANSI standard.

This approved XML standard is now available and can be downloaded as NIST Special Publication 500-275:
Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Other Biometric Information - Part 2: XML Version (ANSI/NIST-ITL 2-2008) .

Information about NIST/ITL Procedures used for the development of American National standards is available at http://www.itl.nist.gov/ANSIASD

Additional information or a hardcopy version of either NIST Special Publication (500-271 or 500-275) can be obtained by sending an email to Elaine Newton at enewton@nist.gov .