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Network Working Group                                        D. Eastlake
Request for Comments: 3106                                      Motorola
Obsoletes: 2706                                             T. Goldstein
Category: Informational                                           Brodia
                                                              April 2001


             ECML v1.1: Field Specifications for E-Commerce

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001).  All Rights Reserved.

IESG Note:

   This document specifies version 1.1 of ECML and obsoletes RFC 2706
   which specifies version 1.0 of ECML. Both version 1.0 and 1.1 of ECML
   are products of the ECML alliance which is described in section 1.1
   of this document. The reader should note that version 2.0 of ECML is
   under development (as of the publication of this RFC) in the IETF in
   the TRADE Working Group.

Abstract

   Customers are frequently required to enter substantial amounts of
   information at an Internet merchant site in order to complete a
   purchase or other transaction, especially the first time they go
   there.  A standard set of information fields is defined as the first
   version of an Electronic Commerce Modeling Language (ECML) so that
   this task can be more easily automated, for example by wallet
   software that could fill in fields.  Even for the manual data entry
   case, customers will be less confused by varying merchant sites if a
   substantial number adopt these standard fields.  In addition, some
   fields are defined for merchant to consumer communication.











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