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Every day, millions of people cross international borders by air or sea. A nation's ability to identify and neutralize threats posed by travelers depends heavily on an accurate and proactive methodology for establishing traveler identity. Lacking both a common reference model and a globally unique identification scheme, the “system” must confront the problem of multiple distinct or imprecise references...