I am sorry you had a bad experience back in 1999 with this Identix representative.
Identix BioEngine IS BioAPI compatible as well as the related Identix fingerprint reader family. I don't know why they are not on the bioapi.org site and I will make sure that it is more clearly noted.
Identix is very much involved with all standards groups worldwide and representatives from several organizations fly around the world to contribute to such standards meetings. Standards of biometrics within the industry are a must, and Identix believes wholeheartedly in these efforts.
But to clarify...
Your main complaint within this statement was for a meeting back in 1999 about wanting the ability to enrolling using one vendor's technology and working on another. BioAPI alone will not provide the solution you mention with templates that are compatible. BioAPI gives a standard set of APIs to use for each vendor to do the standard functions of biometric extraction and matching (and related functions). So currently it is good for integrators to easily integrate several different BioAPI compatible components, but you can't use the data from one to the other. So, if you always enroll on one and verify on the same and manage that accordingly then BioAPI will handle what you need. But the way I interperet your post is that won't solve your problems so I would follow closely the workings of M1.
You are looking for template data interchange format standards. Please check out some current efforts going on where IDNX is actively involved:
http://www.incits.org/tc_home/m1.htm
Template data interchange format standards and interface standards such as BioAPI together will get you where it seems you would like to be. M1 seeks to address this. When you go to check out M1 and similar efforts, you will see an Identix representative at most of those meetings.
Best regards,
Jared Beck, CISSP
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I am sorry you had a bad experience back in 1999 with this Identix representative. Identix BioEngine IS BioAPI compatible as well as the related Identix fingerprint reader family. I don't know why they are not on the bioapi.org site and I will make sure that it is more clearly noted. Identix is very much involved with all standards groups worldwide and representatives from several organizations fly around the world to contribute to such standards meetings. Standards of biometrics within the industry are a must, and Identix believes wholeheartedly in these efforts. But to clarify... Your main complaint within this statement was for a meeting back in 1999 about wanting the ability to enrolling using one vendor's technology and working on another. BioAPI alone will not provide the solution you mention with templates that are compatible. BioAPI gives a standard set of APIs to use for each vendor to do the standard functions of biometric extraction and matching (and related functions). So currently it is good for integrators to easily integrate several different BioAPI compatible components, but you can't use the data from one to the other. So, if you always enroll on one and verify on the same and manage that accordingly then BioAPI will handle what you need. But the way I interperet your post is that won't solve your problems so I would follow closely the workings of M1. You are looking for template data interchange format standards. Please check out some current efforts going on where IDNX is actively involved: http://www.incits.org/tc_home/m1.htm Template data interchange format standards and interface standards such as BioAPI together will get you where it seems you would like to be. M1 seeks to address this. When you go to check out M1 and similar efforts, you will see an Identix representative at most of those meetings. Best regards, Jared Beck, CISSP