The BioAPI Consortium first announced its formation and intent to develop a biometric API standard in April of 1998. By the end of the year, this group had developed a multi-level API architecture and begun defining the associated components. As part of this agreement, the BioAPI Consortium agreed to restructure their organization. The reconstituted BioAPI Consortium completed its efforts to define the biometric API architecture and to solidify its organizational structure and operations by mid 1999. Version 1.1 of both the Specification and Reference Implementation was released in March, 2001.
Work continues on the Conformance Test Suite.
In addition to meetings, work is performed via conference calls and an email discussion list.