Standard
Specifications of Tactim's recommendation X-tb norm
Introduction to RX-tb standard recommendation
In this section you will be introduced to the standard Tactim has developped, in collaboration with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) based in Geneva. it is drafted as Recommandation X.tb - A general telebiometric model for the establishment of recommended limits to ensure security and public safety for telecommunications systems and biometric devices (A model for security and public safety in telebiometrics).
A Security and Public Safety Model for Telebiometrics is presented to assist in the standardisation of the telecommunication domain referred to as "telebiometry". Already, and increasingly in the future, many different kinds of biometric devices will be using protocols to exchange new types of data, using Telecommunication Services (TS).
The interaction of human organisms with telecommunication terminals need to be categorized and standardized into a complete and coherent security suite based on scalar propinquity, using the harmonized ISO/IEC 80000 standard that is under development.
The telebiometric model in this Recommendation is used to:
derive safe limits for the operation of telecommunications systems and biometric devices.
provide a framework for developing a taxonomy of biometric devices.
facilitate the development of authentication mechanisms, based on both static (ex: finger-prints) and dynamic (ex: signature pressure variation) attributes of a human being.
A coherent model (the Telebiometric Model) of the material entity who uses Telecommunication Services is proposed in this recommendation, based on already standardised descriptors for units of physical phenomena.
Many issues of safe levels in telecommunications systems, in debate today, are resolved with tables in this recommendation based on the best current scientific knowledge. Telecommunication equipment manufacturers require solid foundations for their specifications, accepting liabilities only to the levels of the best of current knowledge. The Telebiometric Model defined here can be used to provide specifications related to:
Environmental issues
Human health issues
Biometric Authentication issues
Privacy issues
This recommendation specifies the multimodal upper and lower thresholds for security and public safety accepted by today's scientific community experts. Reference to this Recommendation can assist in limiting Corporate and Sovereign States liabilities in respect of the provision of Telecommunication Services.
Authentication of a human being with preservation of his/her privacy and safety can be achieved through a very secure environment of telebiometrically standardized processes and structures. At the multimodal layer, where this recommendation contains normative text, consideration of the Personal Privacy Sphere is made explicit and engineerable.
This Recommendation provides security in the use of Telecommunications Systems, enhancing customers' feelings in respect to safety issues. This Recommendation specifies upper-threshold and lower-threshold values for all relevant forms of energy transfer, at all relevant scalar levels. Telebiometry is the study of measurable biometric items and parameters, guiding telecommunication engineering processes. The Telebiometrics Model is derived from the International System of Units (SI), providing a very precise description of the "material" Personal Privacy Sphere.
The concept of Personal Privacy Sphere
Personal Privacy Sphere: The right of individuals to control or influence what information related to them may be collected and stored and by whom and to whom that information may be disclosed.
The Multimodal Perfect Man, " Leonardo ", is shown in the figure within a Scale Hierarchy Framework, illustrating the multilevel and multimodal approach of telebiometry. Multimodality encompasses perceptual, conceptual and behavioural modalities of communication.
At whatever scalar level an observer may focus, be it sociological, psychological, biological, chemo-logical or physico-logical, a clear and measurable set of upper and lower thresholds can be defined to guarantee the integrity and sustainability of the Personal Private Sphere.
Eight subdivisions of the modalities of the Personal Private Sphere provide a generic multimodal model (see Standard presentation) to be used in the lowermost level of the bio field interacting with open telecommunication systems, securely and safely.