First, of course, are the many talented individuals who have so ably represented their respective companies at the BioAPI Consortium meetings, leading up to the pulication of the specification, without whom we wouldn't have had anything to implement a reference of.
Intel's Open Source CDSA/HRS framework provided the original structure, and indeed much of this code is essentially unchanged from that time. David Bowler from Intel provided significant development assistance and patiently answered many questions, without which this would have taken much longer and been of much lower quality. David has also remained active on the mailing list since the release of the reference implementation.
Bioscrypt Inc. (formerly Mytec Technologies Inc.) hosted the first development workshop, and also hosts the various mailing lists. Colin Soutar is the chair of the reference implementation. Greg Schmidt was lead developer, maintainer of the source control system, debugger of MDS and the framework, wrote these works of lasting literary value that you are currently enjoying, and has remained active on the mailing list. We appreciate Bioscrypt's commitment of resources to this project.
SAFLINK hosted the second development workshop, and contributed much of Tim Brown's time to the development process. Tim was responsible for the sample application, among other things.
Iridian Technologies (formerly Iriscan) contributed the time of Garrett Deacon, whose most visible responsibility was handling the various schemas, including the MDSEdit utility.
Tomoko Onaka of Visionics, Harry Trautmann of Softpro, Roy Myers of Ankari, Torsten Meister of Touchless Sensor Technology, and Cory Womacks of Saflink contributed detailed bug reports and usually patches to fix the bugs.
Please contribute to the project so that your name too may be recorded for all time in this hallowed location.