Jim and all: I'm happy to inform you that following your (Jim's) prompting,
in the last face to face meeting of the W3C Micro Payments working group
held today,
the group accepted my proposal to proceed directly to define an
Interoperable Micropayment Order. We seem to have reached already
substantial agreements towards this major step towards completely
interoperable micropayment systems (such as the use of RSA signatures).
This is in addition to the other ongoing efforts in the working group, most
noticeable the Common Markup for Per-fee-links recommendation, a draft of
which is moving to `last call` and is publicly available in the W3C
Micropayments WG site http://www.w3.org/ECommerce/Micropayments/
We look forward to feedback on the published draft - and invite all
interested W3C members to join the WG! Existing members include what I
believe are the most significant vendors in the micropayments area -
Compaq, France Telecom and IBM.
Best Regards,
Amir Herzberg
Chair, W3C Micropayments WG
Manager, E-Business and Security Technologies
IBM Research - Haifa Lab (Tel Aviv Office)
http://www.hrl.il.ibm.com
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