AAMVA is pleased to announce the release of the 2010 DL/ID Card Design Standard (CDS). The work was carried out by a Special Task Force made up of jurisdictional and federal government members. The CDS provides for the design of driver licenses (DL) and identification (ID) cards and its intent is to improve the security of the DL/ID cards and the level of interoperability among cards issued by all North American jurisdictions.
The 2010 AAMVA DL/ID Card Design Standard supersedes the 2009 AAMVA DL/ID Card Design Standard. AAMVA strongly recommends that jurisdictions beginning new card design and production efforts base their work on the 2010 standard. The 2009 AAMVA DL/ID Card Design Standard, along with previous versions, will continue to be available since some jurisdictions have cards in production that are based upon those specifications.
The following is a summary of changes between the 2010 CDS and the previous version (2009).
Substantive changes include:
- Replacement of French Abbreviations for 'endorsements' and 'height'
- Creation of three date data elements for 'under 18', 'under 19', 'under 21' (both human and machine-readable [PDF417])
- Clarification of A.5 Common recognition
- Clarification of A.7.8.1 Portrait (background, color)
- Clarification of B.6.2 Minimum requirements
- Elimination of reference to linear bar codes in D.11.1 PDF417 Orientation
- Update to F.6.3 Track 3 fields 2 and 3
Other general (non-technical or non-substantive) edits have been made throughout the document.
Contact: Geoff Slagle, Director, Identification Standards
Statement Regarding DL/ID Samples
AAMVA does not provide sample DL/ID documents/specimens/exemplars from our principal membership - for questions related to such requests please contact the issuing authorities directly.