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ISO/IEC 12087 consists of the three parts which define the functional aspects of this part of ISO/IEC 12088. The Common Architecture for Imaging (IPI-CAI) defines the overall architecture. The Programmer's Imaging Kernel System (IPI-PIKS) and the Image Interchange Facility (IPI-IIF) each specify a language i ndependent, image processing Application Program Interface (API) within the Image Processing and Interchange Standard. Either API may be implemented independently or both may be combined in one implementation. For integration into a programming language, IPI-PIKS and IPI-IIF APIs are embedded in a language dependent layer obeying the particular conventions of that language. This part of ISO/IEC 12088 specifies such a language dependent layer for the C language.