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To: David who wrote (4020)	12/3/1998 11:23:00 AM
From: bob jordan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4676

David, Thanks for the tip. Did not know Ms. Tilton was going to be at an API panel at CTST next week. Sweet. As for HAAPI, I don't know how it is doing. Actually, I don't know what the hell NRI is doing in general, so that should not come as a surprise. The only thing I know about HAAPI was that it was supposedly not compatible with Novell when it first came out, but now it apparently is. Also, NRI is talking to or contributing to or somehow involved in the BioAPI, that the big boys are working on. Whatever. HAAPI is just a standard, though, David. There was to be no profit potential from it other than the fact that the various biometric standards were to have worked together. The one common platform theory, if you will. So I doubt that I said that HAAPI was going to take over the world, unless I was misinformed as to the impact it would have, which I highly doubt. I may have said that NRI was going to take over the world, or at least its equivalent, but that is my belief. Reasonable people can differ on opinion, right counselor? On the other hand if this was a sarcastic attempt on your part to reiterate the "mine is bigger" war between NRI and IDX, don't bother. As your learned friend pointed out "the game is over." Regards, Bob

To: David who wrote (4020)	12/5/1998 4:12:00 PM
From: bob jordan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4676

David, You asked me how HAAPI was doing. So I started looking around the web to answer your question. I found this: authentec.com The FingerLoc Application Programming Interface is oriented toward simple access to high-level authentication functionality. Interaction with the FingerLoc fingerprint sensor is encapsulated and managed from within the FingerLoc services transparently to the application program. Due to the lack of accepted interface standards, and their current unstable and incomplete condition, the FingerLoc API supports subsets of both the HAAPI and BAPI draft biometric interface standards, that are sufficient to interface with the most popular application software available today. The FingerLoc API in some cases extends functions specified in the draft standards to support the real-time stream oriented processing that gives FingerLoc its exceptional performance. Regards, Bob