[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 48 (Monday, March 13, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13402-13404]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6100]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology
[Docket No. 950120021-5021-01]
RIN 0693-AB12


Approval of Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 
194, Open Document Architecture (ODA) Raster Document Application 
Profile (DAP)

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to announce that the Secretary 
of Commerce has approved a new standard, which will be published as 
FIPS Publication 194, Open Document Architecture (ODA) Raster Document 
Application Profile (DAP).
    On January 28, 1994, notice was published in the Federal Register 
(59 FR 4032) that a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) for 
Open Document Architecture Raster Document Application Profile was 
being proposed for Federal use.
    NIST reviewed written comments submitted by interested parties and 
other available material. On the basis of this review, NIST recommended 
that the Secretary approve the standard as a Federal Information 
Processing Standard (FIPS), and prepared a detailed justification 
document for the Secretary's review in support of that recommendation.
    The detailed justification document which was presented to the 
Secretary, and which includes an analysis of the written comments 
received, is part of the public record and is available for inspection 
and copying in the Department's Central Reference and Records 
Inspection Facility, Room 6020, Herbert C. Hoover Building, 14th Street 
between Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues, NW., Washington, DC 
20230.
    This FIPS contains two sections: (1) An announcement section, which 
provides information concerning the applicability, implementation, and 
maintenance of the standard; and (2) a specifications section, which 
deals with the technical requirements of the standard. Only the 
announcement section of the standard is provided in this notice.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This standard become effective September 1, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may purchase copies of this standard, 
including the technical specifications section, from the National 
Technical Information Service (NTIS). Specific ordering information 
from NTIS for this standard is set out in the Where to Obtain Copies 
Section of the announcement section of the standard.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mr. Frankie Spielman, (301) 975-3257, Computer Systems Laboratory, 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 12866: This FIPS notice has been determined to be ``not 
significant'' for purposes of E.O. 12866.

    Dated: March 7, 1995.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.

Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 194

(Date)

Announcing the Standard for Open Document Architecture (ODA) Raster 
Document Application Profile (DAP)

    Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS PUBS) 
are issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology after 
approval by the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to Section 111(d) of the 
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 as amended by 
the Computer Security Act of 1987, Public Law 100-235.
    1. Name of Standard. Open Document Architecture (ODA) Raster 
Document Application Profile (DAP), (FIPS PUB 194).
    2. Category of Standard. Software Standard, Graphics.
    3. Explanation. This Federal Information Processing Standard adopts 
the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International 
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 12064-1 International Standard 
Profile (ISP) FOD112, Open Document Format: Image Applications--Simple 
Document Structure--Raster Graphics content architecture, Part 1: 
Document Application Profile (DAP). This FIPS PUB defines three levels 
of conformance, the complete specification is in section 10.
    ISO/IEC 12064-1 specifies the use of a subset of the ODA standard 
and, in this FIPS PUB, is referred to as the ODA Raster DAP. The ODA 
standard is defined in a joint ISO/IEC and International 
Telecommunications Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-
T) document ISO/IEC 8613-ITU-T Recommendation T.410 Series, Open 
Document Architecture (ODA) and Interchange Format.
    The ODA standard supports the interchange of compound documents 
containing up to three types of contents: character (text), raster 
graphics, and geometric graphics. Developed by international standards 
organizations, the ODA standard specifies rules for describing the 
logical and layout structures of documents as well as rules for 
specifying character, raster graphics, and geometric graphics content 
of documents, thus providing for the interchange of complex documents. 
The ODA standard was developed primarily by the ISO/IEC Joint Technical 
Committee (JTC1) and ITU-T, formerly the Consultative Committee on 
International and Telegraph (CCITT).
    A DAP is a functional subset of the ODA standard and facilitates 
the interchange of documents among different document systems by 
specifying the constraints on document structure and content according 
to the rules of the ODA Standard. The ODA Raster DAP specifies an 
interchange format suitable for the transfer of formatted structured 
documents between systems designed for raster graphics applications. 
The documents supported by this standard are based on a paradigm of an 
electronic engineering drawing, illustration, or other electronic 
image. Within an ODA document, only raster graphics content is allowed 
and supported by this FIPS.
    The ODA Raster DAP was initially developed by an ad-hoc Continuous 
Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support (CALS) Tiling Task Group. CALS, 
formerly known as the Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistic Support, 
is a Department of Defense (DoD) initiative. The ODA Raster DAP was 
further developed by vendors and users of computer networks/systems 
participating in the Open Systems Environment Implementors' Workshop 
(OIW), and finally harmonized with the International organizations 
participating in the Profile Alignment Group for ODA (PAGODA). Finally, 
it was submitted to ISO/IEC JTC1/Special Group on Functional Standards 
(SGFS) for processing as part 1 of the ISP.
    4. Approving Authority. Secretary of Commerce.
    5. Maintenance Agency. U.S. Department of Commerce, National 
Institute of Standards and Technology (Computer Systems Laboratory).
    6. Cross Index. [[Page 13403]] 
    a. ISO/IEC 8613:1994--ITU-T 410 Recommendation Series (1993), 
Information Processing--Text and Office Systems Open Document 
Architecture (ODA) and Interchange Format Standard.
    b. NIST Special Publication 500-224, Stable Implementation 
Agreements for Open Systems Interconnection Protocols, Version 8, 
Edition 1, December 1994.
    C. ANSI/AIIM MS53-1993, Standard Recommended Practice--File Format 
for Storage and Exchange of Images--Bi-Level Image File Format.
    7. Related Documents. Related ISO and ITU documents are listed in 
the normative reference section of the ODA Raster DAP. Other related 
documents are:
    a. FIPS PUB 149, Telecommunications: Facsimile Coding Schemes and 
Coding Control Functions for Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus.
    b. FIPS PUB 150, Telecommunications: Facsimile Coding Schemes and 
Coding Control Functions for Group 4 Facsimile Apparatus.
    c. NISTIR 5108, Raster Graphics: A Tutorial and Implementation 
Guide.
    8. Objectives. The FIPS for ODA Raster DAP permits Federal 
departments and agencies to exercise more effective control over the 
production, management, and use of Government's raster graphics 
applications. The primary objectives of this standard are:

--To promote interchange of structured documents containing raster 
graphics images between image processing systems of different 
manufacturers,
--To facilitate the use of advanced technology by the Federal 
Government,
--To contribute to the economic and efficient use of image and document 
processing system resources, and
--To avoid the proliferation of vendor-unique solutions.

    9. Applicability. The ODA Roster DAP is available for use by 
Federal Government agencies when acquiring and developing ODA raster 
graphics applications. This FIPS applies to systems processing, 
generating, and receiving raster graphics images utilizing the ODA 
standard in a structured document environment. It specifies the 
structure and parameters for describing and interchanging bi-level 
untiled compressed images as well as tiled raster images. Each system 
acquired or developed by Federal agencies to support the ODA Raster DAP 
shall include appropriate system-to-DAP and DAP-to-system translators, 
such that incoming data streams are interpreted correctly and that 
outgoing data streams are generated correctly. These translators may be 
acquired separately from the acquisition of the application system when 
it is in the best interest of the Federal agency to do so. Use of the 
standard is independent of the communications used to transfer 
documents produced by these applications; that is, this standard may be 
used within the existing framework of communication protocols. There 
are three levels of applicability defined to satisfy different 
implementation requirements.
    10. Specifications. This FIPS adopts the provisions of ISO/IEC 
12064-1 by defining three levels of implementation support. All levels 
must conform to the document and raster layout specifications of [ITU-T 
Rec. T.410 series--ISO/IEC 8613] and ISO/IEC ISP 12064-1 that are 
essential for raster graphics applications. The specifications for ODA 
data streams are also defined in [ITU-T Rec. T.410 series--ISO/IEC 
8613] and ISO/IEC ISP 12064-1 and apply to all levels defined in this 
FIPS. The levels are: ANSI/AIIM MS-53 (Untiled), Intermediated ODA 
Raster DAP, and Full ODA Raster DAP.
    10.1. ANSI/AIIM MS-53 (Untiled). This level of implementation 
supports ANSI/AIIM MS-53-1993, Standard Recommended Practice--File 
Format for Storage and Exchange of Images--Bi-Level Image File Format: 
Part 1. Files written in conformance with any of the pre-defined file 
formats described in the ANSI/AIIM MS-53 standard can be imported into 
an ODA implementation. Each of six file formats can be implemented 
without either technical knowledge or understanding of the ODA format. 
This implementation does not support tiled raster images but does 
support both ITU-T Recommendation T.6 (Group 4) and ITU-T 
Recommendation T.4 (Group 3) compression algorithms.
    10.2. Intermediate ODA Raster DAP. This level of implementation 
supports raster graphics images in either the untiled or tiled format. 
The following restrictions apply to this level of implementation.
    a. The ITU-T Recommendation T.4 (Group 3) one-dimensional and two-
dimensional compression algorithms are not supported.
    b. If the image is tiled, the tile size must be restricted to 512 X 
512 pels.
    c. The uncompressed escape option defined in FIPS PUB 150 (ITU-T 
Recommendation T.6) will not be used.
    d. The bit ordering will be restricted to only the most significant 
bit (MSB) to least significant bit (LSB), the ``down'' bit order.
    e. Only the ``Document-reference'' attribute within the Document 
Profile Document Management attributes is supported.
    10.3. Full ODA Raster DAP. This level of implementation supports 
raster graphics images in either the untiled or tiled format. It fully 
supports all aspects of the ODA Raster DAP.
    10.4. Miscellaneous requirements. A bitmap image or tile represents 
the ``information'' in a document by one bits and the ``background'' by 
zero bits. This FIPS requires that the encoding programs exporting 
document images for interchange must produce the image with a pel line 
dimension which is a multiple of eight pels.
    10.5. Conformance requirements. All implementations, regardless of 
implementation level, claiming conformance to this FIPS must adhere to 
the specific requirements defined in the ``Conformance'' clause of the 
ODA Raster DAP and to the general rules below.
    Conformance Rules for Data Streams. A conforming data stream shall 
be syntactically, semantically, and structurally correct as defined in 
this standard.
    Conformance Rules for Generators. A generator which claims 
conformance to this standard shall create only conforming data streams 
which correctly represent the raster graphics image which was input to 
the generator.
    Conformance Rules for Receivers. A receiver which claims 
conformance to this standard shall be capable of reading and correctly 
processing any conforming data stream without halting or aborting such 
that it produces the correct results.
    11. Implementation. The implementation of this standard involves 
three areas of consideration: acquisition of raster graphics 
implementations, interpretations of the standard, and validation of ODA 
Raster DAP implementations.
    11.1. Acquisition of Raster Graphics Applications. This standard 
becomes effective September 1, 1995. For a period of twelve (12) months 
after the effective date, agencies are permitted to acquire alternative 
software that provides equivalent functionality to the ODA Raster DAP. 
Agencies are encouraged to use this standard for solicitation proposals 
for new raster processing systems to be acquired after the effective 
date. This standard is mandatory for use in all solicitation proposals 
for new ODA raster application products acquired twelve (12) months 
after the effective date.
    11.2. Interpretation of the Standard. NIST provides for the 
resolution of [[Page 13404]] questions regarding FIPS for ODA Raster 
DAP specifications and requirements, and issues official 
interpretations as needed. Procedures for interpretations are specified 
in FIPS PUB 29-3. All questions about the interpretation of FIPS for 
ODA Raster DAP should be addressed to: Computer Systems Laboratory, 
Attn: Raster Graphics Interpretation, National Institute of Standards 
and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.
    11.3. Validation of ODA Raster DAP Implementations. Implementations 
of FIPS ODA Raster DAP shall be validated in accordance with NIST 
Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) validation procedures for FIPS ODA 
Raster DAP. The goal of the NIST ODA Raster DAP Validation Test Service 
is to maximize the probability of successful interchange between 
conforming systems.
    Validation testing provides a way of determining the degree to 
which an implementation conforms to a standard. The testing of ODA 
Raster DAP implementations to determine the degree to which they 
conform to the standard may be required by Government agencies in 
accordance with Federal Information Resources Management Regulation 
(FIRMR) 201-20.303, 201-20.304, 201-39.1002, and the associated Federal 
ADP and Telecommunications Standard Index.
    The agency is advised to refer to the NIST publication Validated 
Products List for information about the validation status of products.
    Information concerning the NIST Raster Graphics Validation Test 
Service and validation procedures can be obtained by contacting the: 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Computer Systems 
Laboratory, ATTN: Raster Graphics Test Service, Building 225, Room 
A266, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, (301) 975-3257.
    12. Waivers. Under certain exceptional circumstances, the heads of 
Federal departments and agencies may approve waivers to FIPS. The head 
of such agency may redelegate such authority only to a senior official 
designated pursuant to section 3506(b) of Title 44, U.S. Code. Waivers 
shall be granted only when:
    a. Compliance with a standard would adversely affect the 
accomplishment of the mission of an operator of a Federal computer 
system, or
    b. Cause a major adverse financial impact on the operator which is 
not offset by governmentwide savings.
    Agency heads may act upon a written waiver request containing the 
information detailed above. Agency heads may also act without a written 
waiver request when they determine that conditions for meeting the 
standard cannot be met. Agency heads may approve waivers only by a 
written decision which explains the basis on which the agency head made 
the required finding(s). A copy of each such decision, with 
procurement-sensitive or classified portions clearly identified, shall 
be sent to: National Institute of Standards and Technology; Attn: FIPS 
Waiver Decisions, Technology Building, Room B-154; Gaithersburg, MD 
20899.
    In addition, notice of each waiver granted and each delegation of 
authority to approve waivers shall be sent promptly to the Committee on 
Government Operations of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Governmental Affairs of the Senate and shall be published in the 
Federal Register.
    When the determination on a waiver applies to the procurement of 
equipment and/or services, a notice of the waiver determination must be 
published in the Commerce Business Daily as a part of the notice of 
solicitation for offers of an acquisition or, if the waiver 
determination is made after that notice is published, by amendment to 
such notice.
    A copy of the waiver, any supporting documents, the document 
approving the waiver and any supporting and accompanying documents, 
with such deletions as the agency is authorized and decides to make 
under 5 U.S.C. Sec. 552(b), shall be part of the procurement 
documentation and retained by the agency.
    13. Where to Obtain Copies. Copies of this publication are for sale 
by the National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161. When ordering, refer to Federal 
Information Processing Standards Publication 194 (FIPSPUB194), and 
title. Specify microfiche, if desired. Payment may be made by check, 
money order, or NTIS deposit account.

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