CANDLE: Collaboration between AAMVA and Niets for Driver License Exchange

摘要

Justice and public safety (JPS) professionals in the United States and Canada receive interstate driver and motor vehicle information using Nlets, the International Justice and Public Safety Information Sharing Network. The states presently deliver this key data in non-uniform, state-specific formats. Receipt of this important data must occur in a consistent manner to improve efficiency while reducing public and officer risk. With sponsorship from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Nlets partnered with AAMVA, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, to leverage AAMVA's interstate driver vehicle data standards to make this crucial information available to justice and public safety officials in a common, standards-compliant format. Under the NIJ-funded CANDLE grant (Collaboration between AAMVA and Nlets for Driver License Exchange), the partner organizations successfully used AAMVA's information model to convey uniform responses over Nlets in a format compliant with the DOJ Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) information sharing standard. The CANDLE effort has identified the need for common interstate and intrastate exchanges and for a single, shared interface to deliver common services for departments of public safety (DPS) and motor vehicle (DMV). The goal of a single shared interface will be realized by working with AAMVA to extend and promote the CANDLE specifications for adoption and implementation directly by state DMVs. A number of major national initiatives including the Real ID Act will result in major revisions to state DMV systems which create the opportunity for CANDLE DMV implementations.