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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Saflink Corp. (ESAF) Biometric Software Provider
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To: Jaffo who wrote (2481)12/6/1997 4:36:00 PM
From: John Fairbanks  Read Replies (1) of 4676
 
Ok... after going back and reading through the press release again I
have to note that it does not say that they have developed this API.
What it does say is that they have developed an "API specification"
in conjuction with an agency of the DOD. Here's what I get from it:

1) They are counting on the DOD involvement to lend enough credebility
to the specification to cause others to adopt it.

2) NRID's products do not currently conform to this spec but they
plan to make them conform in the future.

3) This API is intended as something that ALL biometric companies should
adopt so that I can write software as a developer and run it with anyone's
biometric software that happens to be on the machine. This means my
software might use NRID's finegrprint software on one machine, and a
iris scanner on another, or perhaps a facial geometry scanner. The
key point of the API being that MY software doesn't even know how the
authentication is occuring, just that something said "This user is OK"

So basically, unless someone like Unisys writes to the spec, and then
all the biometric companies make themselves compatible with it in an
attempt to convince you and me to use their particular flavor of biometrics,
this spec could end up being used by nobody other than NRID. Or maybe
nobody ever writes any software that uses the API and it's an expensive
waste of time. At any rate, even if this goes over big I'm not sure
that it means anything to NRID's bottom line either way... probably
more an image thing than anything.

I could be wrong, JMO. Still happy to be a shareholder though... if
the API does get adopted it will make NRID appear as a definite industry
leader... I would have expected IDX to do this. For exactly that reason
I also suspect that we'll see IDX go out and formulate their own API
and try to push it instead unless the DOD makes IDX use NRID's if they
want to get certain contracts.

-John
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