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Standards Activities

Standards (a general set of rules to which all complying procedures, products or research must adhere) offer a myriad of benefits. They reduce differences between products and promote an aura of stability, maturity and quality to both consumers and potential investors.
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Standards
* Application Programming Interface (API)
* American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) National Standard for the Drivers License/Identification Card - AAMVA DL/ID 2000
* Best Practices in Testing and Reporting Performance of Biometric Devices (Biometric Working Group)
* BioAPI Consortium
* Common Biometric Exchange File Format (CBEFF) - NIST Publication NISTR 6529  dated January 3, 2001
* Common Biometric Exchange File Format (CBEFF) - NIST Publication NISTR 6529-A dated April 5, 2004
* Draft Authentication Module Interface Standard
* FBI Fingerprint Image Compression Standard.
* Standards for the Electronic Submission of Fingerprint Cards to the FBI
* NIST Standard Reference Data.
Standards Bodies
* American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
* InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) M1 - Technical Committee on Biometrics
* International Standards Organization (ISO)
* National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Human Authentication - Application Program Interface: (HA-API)
* HA-API Version 2.0 Zipped Word version (138 kB)+
* HA-API Version2.0 Adobe PDF version (287 kB)+
* Human Authentication - Application Program Interface (HA-API), Ver 2.0, 22 April 98
* HA-API Word version of HA-API version 1.03 (110 kB)+
* HA-API Application Programmer's Manual (41 kB)+
* HA-API Service Provider's Manual (35 kB)+
* HA-API Steering Group Meeting #2 Minutes, 30 June 1998  (Zipped Word 6.0 Version)
* HA-API Steering Group Meeting #1 Minutes, 22 January 1998 (Zipped Word 6.0 Version)
* The Human Authentication API (HA-API) Project (34 slides), Cathy Tilton, The National Registry Inc.
* +WinZip'ed compressed Microsoft Word Office 97 format - converters for old versions of Word: PC Word 6.x and 7.x users and Macintosh Word 5.1 and 6.x users.
Speaker Verification - Application Program Interface: (SVAPI)
* SVAPI Notes
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