Too many mailing lists talking about the same thing is as bad as
having none.
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Alireza Bahreman E-Mail: bahreman@bellcore.com
Bellcore, Room RRC-1K221 Phone : +1 908 699 7398
444 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854 Fax : +1 908 336 2943
You write:
>
>Guys,
>
>As some of you know, we are working on a proposal for a secure payment protoco
>l
>(credit/debit/checking models), which we presented at WWWC and other places
>[e.g. to be presented in MIT/LCS at May 18th]. The proposal is at:
>
>http://www.zurich.ibm.ch/Technology/Security/extern/ecommerce/
>
>In order to make the process as open as possible, Avi Rubin has opened an
>open, unmoderated mailing list to discuss the protocols.
>To subscribe, send a message to
>majordomo@cc.bellcore.com with the body of the message
>subscribe e-payment
>
>We hope that this proposal would be useful to help converge the different
>payment solutions. We realise that some players may feel that they cannot
>wait for a standard, and in fact we are working with some to help define
>solutions; but we believe that a standard, as soon as possible, would help
>a lot, and proprietary solutions should try to converge into it.
>
>We are not aware of any intellectual property covering the proposal, please
>tell us if you know.
>
>Sorry for any duplicates of this message.
>
>Best,
>
>Amir Herzberg
>Manager, Network Security Group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
>Fax 914-784-6205
>