Felica is a(nother) Sony power play; its architecture is driven by
multi-media licensing requirements, versus promoting open standards for
platforms.
eWallets were worked on 5 years ago, leading to VISA standards supported by
MS and W3C. The concept failed, in the PC world. Its cheaper to indemnify
the risk faced by the consumer than solve the infrastructure problems of
legacy PCs. Sonera had advanced GSM-based eWallet serices for mobile devices
too, at the time.
From: Olli Vertanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: MUSCLE <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Muscle] FeLiCa and QuicPay
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:59:56 +0200 (EET)
Hi all,
I spent some hours yesterday looking for specs about DoCoMo's FeLiCa
mobile wallet system and it's QuicPay protocol. All I found was
some brochures and very cursory conference papers.
Does anyone know any published documents about the systems: authentication
scheme, platform (Java Card?), how to write/add applications to card,
payment protocol, etc.
Are there any similar European/US projects going on? There's PayPass
etc. put has somebody integrated those to handhelds. DoCoMo system is
promoted by a mobile operator, but a working global mobile
wallet should be based on international application standards. Is there
an e-wallet standard?
Thanks!
Olli Vertanen
Univ. of Kuopio/Finland
P.S. There's an article about DoCoMo mobile wallet in the latest IEEE
Spectrum, available online.
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