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ICAO standard for machine-readable passports made mandatory
Tuesday July 12, 2005
Machine-readable passports in the format specified by ICAO became the worldwide standard effective yesterday, the organization announced from Montreal.The 188 member nations of ICAO have agreed that all must begin issuing ICAO-standard MRPs no later than April 1, 2010. Some 110 nations already do so.
"Cooperation among all ICAO Contracting States in the implementation of this new standard is essential for meeting our global objectives, to minimize delays in border-crossing formalities and to safeguard international civil aviation operation against acts of unlawful interference," stated ICAO President Assad Kotaite.
More than 40 ICAO members that already issue ICAO-standard MRPs plan to upgrade to the biometrically enabled version or e-passport by the end of 2006, according to ICAO.
Current ICAO specifications include: "The face as the primary, mandatory biometric; iris or fingerprint as secondary and optional; the contactless integrated circuit chip as the storage medium; a logical data structure for programming the chip; and a modified public key infrastructure scheme to secure the data against unauthorized alteration."
Tuesday July 12, 2005
Machine-readable passports in the format specified by ICAO became the worldwide standard effective yesterday, the organization announced from Montreal.The 188 member nations of ICAO have agreed that all must begin issuing ICAO-standard MRPs no later than April 1, 2010. Some 110 nations already do so.
"Cooperation among all ICAO Contracting States in the implementation of this new standard is essential for meeting our global objectives, to minimize delays in border-crossing formalities and to safeguard international civil aviation operation against acts of unlawful interference," stated ICAO President Assad Kotaite.
More than 40 ICAO members that already issue ICAO-standard MRPs plan to upgrade to the biometrically enabled version or e-passport by the end of 2006, according to ICAO.
Current ICAO specifications include: "The face as the primary, mandatory biometric; iris or fingerprint as secondary and optional; the contactless integrated circuit chip as the storage medium; a logical data structure for programming the chip; and a modified public key infrastructure scheme to secure the data against unauthorized alteration."