Bernhard,
You can purchase the CEPS specs from Europay, via their web
site. You have to sign a license agreement. Price is 94 euro - AND
THEY DO NOT TAKE PLASTIC! Perhaps nobody will give them a
merchant account. They expect you to pay by bank transfer, but I
suggest you just order the spec and discuss method of payment
afterwards (I shall offer them Belgian francs next time I go to see
them in Brussels).
The problem at the moment is that the CEPS spec is built on top
of EMV, and EMV is not ISO compliant, and we just get absolutely
nowhere sorting this out. The major market for smart cards in the
UK is going to be (a) transport (contactless, but also in
combination card format), and (b) citzens cards (town and city
cards).
Citizens cards are mainly contact cards, to ISO standards.
Transport wants e-purse, and looks like having its own, high speed,
versions of several basic purse designs (Proton, VisaCash,
eventually CEPS, and maybe a Mondex derivative) - these e-purses
will be useable only for transport and related small purchases (food
and drink and newspapers, for example).
Peter Tomlinson
Iosis, Bristol BS7 9AA, UK
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Date forwarded: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:32:42 +0100
From: "Bernhard Krick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [OCF] Common Electronic Purse Specifications (CEPS)
Date sent: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:32:25 +0200
> Dear All,
>
> I am a student of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and
>at present I am working at my diploma thesis about "smart cards and electronic purse
>systems in electronic networks and the EU".
>
> My question is: "will OCF support the CEPS ?"
>
> As I have understood it the purpose of the specifications are to support the
>interoperability of electronic purse programmes in the EU. CEPS cover card
>applications, the card to terminal interface, terminal and load device applications,
>data elements and message formats. They are developed by
ZKA (Germany), Sermepa (Spain), Europay International and Visa International. Where
can I get the CEPS and what chance does a common purse system have in the EU?
>
> thank you in advance!
>
> Bernhard Krick
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