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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 95 21:16:20 PDT
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Subject: ANSI to work on e-payment -- first meeting coming up
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First Meeting of Electronic Commerce Work Group
November 29, Washington, DC
ANSI Accredited Standards Committee X9 - Financial Services - in
response to the explosion of payment transaction proposals for the
internet, has approved a new work item to develop a single secure
electronic payment syntax. The first meeting of the Electronic Commerce
Work Group will be Wednesday, November 29 from 9:00am till 5:00pm at the
American Bankers Association, 1120 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC
20036.
Agenda
Review of Scope of Work
Consideration of Federal Reserve Request to expand scope to Bank-Bank
messages
Presentation from Industry groups with existing payment protocols
Assignment of work items
New items
Next meetings (Jan/Feb. - San Francisco, May - Boston??)
A draft scope:
The payment syntax described in this standard is designed to order a
financial institution to make payment to a merchant from an account of a
purchaser based on the near term delivery of low monetary value goods or
services. It will be possible to include this payment order in any
electronic protocol that is based on communications between the
purchaser and the merchant, and between the merchant and a financial
institution. This standard does not describe, nor recommend, any
particular communications protocol.
When used within a complete payment infrastructure, the secure payment
order described shall offer privacy and integrity of the purchaser's
payment information, and shall prevent the purchaser from successfully
repudiating the sending, or the merchant from successfully repudiating
the receiving, of a valid payment order. Thus the financial institution
can be sure that its customer requested the payment and that the
merchant can be accurately identified on the account statement.
About ASC X9
ASC X9 is the accredited standards developer which brings together
banks, securities trading companies, equipment and software
manufactures, associations and others in the financial services industry
to develop voluntary nationally accepted standards based on industry
consensus. Founded in 1976, ASC X9 was accredited by the American
National Standards institute in 1984. The American Bankers Association
serves as X9 Secretariat. For more information on X9, contact the
secretariat at 202/663-5300, for more information on the Electronic
Commerce Work Group, contact its chair, Tom Jones at 602/554-3569.
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