AAMVA is pleased to announce the release of the 2011 DL/ID Card Design Standard (CDS). The work was carried out by the Card Design Standard committee (formerly, 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 2011 AAMVA DL/ID Card Design Standard supersedes the 2010 AAMVA DL/ID Card Design Standard. AAMVA strongly recommends that jurisdictions beginning new card design and production efforts base their work on the 2011 standard. The 2010 AAMVA DL/ID Card Design Standard, along with previous versions, will continue to be available since jurisdictions have cards in production that are based upon those specifications.
The following is a summary of changes between the 2011 CDS and the previous version (2010).
Substantive changes include:
- Addition of Annex J - Optional Integrated Circuit Technology
- Organ donor designation guidance
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.