RFC 2706 (rfc2706) - Page 3 of 13

ECML v1: Field Names for E-Commerce

RFC 2706                    ECom Field Names                October 1999


   applications to browsers, as stand-alone applications, as browser
   plug-ins, and as server-based applications.  But the proliferation of
   electronic wallets has been hampered by the lack of standards.

   ECML (Electronic Commerce Modeling Language, ) Version
   1 provides a set of simple guidelines for web merchants that will
   enable electronic wallets from multiple vendors to fill in their web
   forms. The end-result is that more consumers will find shopping on
   the web to be easy and compelling.

   The set of fields documented herein was developed by the
   Wallet/Merchant Standards Alliance (www.ecml.org) which now includes,
   in alphabetic order, the following:

            American Express (www.americanexpress.com)
            AOL (www.aol.com)
            Brodia (www.brodia.com)
            Compaq (www.compaq.com)
            CyberCash (www.cybercash.com)
            Discover (www.discovercard.com)
            FSTC (www.fstc.org)
            IBM (www.ibm.com)
            Mastercard (www.mastercard.com)
            Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)
            Novell (www.novell.com)
            SETCo (www.setco.org)
            Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com)
            Trintech (www.trintech.com)
            Visa (www.visa.com)

   The fields are derived from and consistent with the W3C P3P base data
   schema at

      .

1.2 Relationship to Other Standards

   ECML Version 1 is not a replacement or alternative to SSL/TLS [RFC
   2246], SET [SET], XML [XML], or IOTP [IOTP]. These are important
   standards that provide functionality such as non-repudiatable
   transactions, automatable payment scheme selection, and smart card
   support.

   ECML may be used with any payment mechanism.  It simply allows a
   merchant to publish consistent simple web forms.

   Multiple wallets and multiple merchants plan to interoperably support
   ECML.  This is an open standard. ECML is designed to be simple.



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