RFC 2706 (rfc2706) - Page 2 of 13
ECML v1: Field Names for E-Commerce
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
RFC 2706 ECom Field Names October 1999
Acknowledgements
The following persons, in alphabetic order, contributed substantially
to the material herein:
George Burne, Trintech
Joe Coco, Microsoft
Kevin Weller, Visa
Table of Contents
1. Introduction................................................2
1.1 Background.................................................2
1.2 Relationship to Other Standards............................3
1.3 Areas Deferred to Future Versions..........................4
2. Using The Fields............................................4
2.1 Presentation of the Fields.................................4
2.2 Methods and Flow of Setting the Fields.....................5
2.3 HTML Example...............................................6
3. Field Definitions...........................................7
4. End Notes...................................................9
5. Security Considerations....................................10
References....................................................11
Authors' Addresses............................................12
Full Copyright Statement......................................13
1. Introduction
1.1 Background
Today, numerous merchants are successfully conducting business on the
Internet using HTML-based forms. The data formats used in these forms
varies 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
information to automatically complete merchant interactions. This
greatly simplifies the check-out process and minimizes the need for a
consumer to complete a merchant's form every time. Digital wallets
that fill forms have been successfully built into browsers, as helper
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