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NSI Certification and Verification Portal
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Welcome to the NSI Certification and Verification Program
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This is a program of the North American Association of State and
Provincial Lotteries (NASPL). The NASPL Standards Initiative (NSI) is a
collaborative development effort, with participation from the lotteries, gaming
vendors, and retail associations in the development of standards, best
practices, and certification and verification programs for the lottery industry.
The objective of the NSI Certification and Verification
Program is to encourage and facilitate the adoption and implementation of
NSI Best Practices and Technical Standards by lotteries, lottery industry
vendors, retailers, and other lottery industry expert organizations that provide
software, hardware, or services to lotteries. The program provides formal
recognition of an organization's conformance to an industry Best
Practice or Technical Standard.
The Certification Program is for vendors and other
organizations that wish to demonstrate and receive recognition for the
conformance of their business practices and technologies to the NSI Best
Practices and Technical Standards, whereas the Verification Program is the
parallel program providing the means for lotteries to demonstrate
conformance in the areas applicable to lotteries.
Below are the entry points for the web-based systems for both Certification and Verification.
Each site contains detailed information on the respective program.
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Certification web site
This program is for vendors, retailers, or third parties that meet the conformance requirements
and wish to achieve certification against one or more of the applicable conformance requirements documents.
This program covers certification in the following areas:
- Bar Code on Instant Tickets and Instant Ticket Packs for Instant Ticket Manufacturers
- MIT XML Based Messaging for Lottery Vendors
- MIT XML Based Messaging for Retailers
- QA Development Process
- QA Requirements Definition for Lottery Vendors
- Web-Based Retailer Application
- XML Retail Accounting Report Consuming Applications
- XML Retail Accounting Report Producing Applications
For more Information or to Register for Certification - - -
Start Here
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Verification web site
This program is for lotteries and covers any area in which a lottery may
wish to be verified. Some of these areas are specific to lotteries while others
duplicate those in the Certification Program
and could apply to a lottery that performs some of its own development.
Please see the FAQ for information on
how a vendor or other third-party organization may assist your lottery in verification
of your technology, such as your Lottery Retailer-Focused Website.
This program covers verification in the following areas:
- Bar Code on Instant Tickets and Instant Ticket Packs for Lotteries
- Lottery Retailer-Focused Website
- MIT XML Based Messaging for Lotteries
- QA Acceptance Testing
- QA Development Process
- QA Requirements Definition for Lotteries
- RFP (Request for Proposal) Standard Template
- XML Retail Accounting Report Producing Applications
For more Information or to Register for Verification - - - Start Here
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About The North American Association of State and
Provincial Lotteries
The North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL)
was founded in 1971. Evolving from an informal exchange of information
among three pioneering lottery directors, the organization has now grown
into an active association of state and provincial lotteries representing
51 lottery organizations throughout North America.
For more information on NASPL please visit the web site at: http://www.naspl.org.
About The Open Group
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium,
which drives the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow . that will
enable access to integrated information within and between enterprises
based on open standards and global interoperability. The Open Group works
with customers, suppliers, consortia and other standard bodies. Its role
is to capture, understand and address current and emerging requirements,
establish policies and share best practices; to facilitate
interoperability, develop consensus, and evolve and integrate
specifications and open source technologies; to offer a comprehensive set
of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia; and to
operate the industry's premier certification service.
Further information on The Open Group can be found at http://www.opengroup.org.
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