RFC 3106 (rfc3106) - Page 2 of 20

ECML v1

RFC 3106                    ECom Field Names                  April 2001


Acknowledgements

   The following persons, in alphabetic order, contributed substantially
   to the material herein:

            George Burne
            Joe Coco
            Jon Parsons
            James Salsman
            David Shepherd
            Kevin Weller

Table of Contents

   1. Introduction..................................................  2
   1.1 The ECML Alliance............................................  3
   1.2 Relationship to Other Standards..............................  4
   1.3 Areas Deferred to Future Versions............................  4
   2. Field Definitions and DTD.....................................  4
   2.1 Field List and Descriptions..................................  4
   2.1.1 Field List.................................................  5
   2.1.2 Field Foot Notes...........................................  7
   2.2 Use in HTML.................................................. 10
   2.3 An ECML 1.1 XML DTD.......................................... 11
   3. Using The Fields.............................................. 13
   3.1 Presentation of the Fields................................... 13
   3.2 Methods and Flow of Setting the Fields....................... 14
   3.3  HTML Example................................................ 14
   4. Security and Privacy Considerations........................... 16
   References....................................................... 16
   Appendix: Changes from ECML 1.0.................................. 18
   Authors' Addresses............................................... 19
   Full Copyright Statement......................................... 20

1. Introduction

   Today, numerous merchants are successfully conducting business on the
   Internet using HTML-based forms.  The data formats used in these
   forms vary considerably from one merchant to another.  End-users find
   the diversity confusing and the process of manually filling in these
   forms to be tedious.  The result is that many merchant forms,
   reportedly around two thirds, are abandoned during the fill in
   process.

   Software tools called electronic wallets can help this situation.  A
   digital wallet is an application or service that assists consumers in
   conducting online transactions by allowing them to store billing,
   shipping, payment, and preference information and to use this



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