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Codes for the Identification of Federal and Federally Assisted Organizations (NIST SP 800-87 v1.0, Jan. 2006 edition)

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Author(s)

William C. Barker, Hildegard Ferraiolo

Abstract

[Superseded by SP 800-87 v1.0 (March 2007): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=51132] The Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-12 called for new standards to be adopted governing the interoperable use of identity credentials to allow physical and logical access to Federal government locations and systems. The Personal Identity Verification (PIV) for Federal Employees and Contractors, Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201) was developed to establish standards for identity credentials. This document, Special Publication 800-87 (SP 800-87), provides the organizational codes necessary to establishing the Federal Agency Smart Credential Number (FASC-N) that is required to be included in the FIPS 201 Card Holder-Unique Identifier (CHUID) and is a companion document to FIPS 201. This updated version incorporates 10 code-change-requests from federal agencies. [Supersedes SP 800-87 v1.0 (October 2005): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=917452]
Citation
Special Publication (NIST SP) - 800-87 Ver 1.0
Report Number
800-87 Ver 1.0

Keywords

HSPD-12, PIV, PACS, FIPS 201, identity credentials, Smart Card, personal identity verification

Citation

Barker, W. and Ferraiolo, H. (2006), Codes for the Identification of Federal and Federally Assisted Organizations (NIST SP 800-87 v1.0, Jan. 2006 edition), Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created January 11, 2006, Updated February 19, 2017