Subject: FW: Comment & Q: ECML 1.1 Internet draft

From: Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:19:12 -0500

This is a comment on the v1.1 draft but is relevant to v2 of ECML...

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Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:48 PM
To: Donald.Eastlake
Subject: Comment & Q: ECML 1.1 Internet draft

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I read through the ECML 1.1 internet draft and
noticed that it is prepared for mobile transactions 
by providing in the Ecom_Payment_Card_Protocol 
field the initial list tokens like 'simcard' and 'phoneid'. 

If I understand correctly, the explanation of
these tokens refer to the use of of some, probably 
operator-specific system, either for billing via phone
bill or by using some SIM toolkit-based solutions.
So, unlike other tokens, these tokens do not refer to a
specific protocol. 

IMHO, this could be problematic in cases where the merchant
and wallet user are not using the services of the same
operator for payments. The token 'simcard' for example 
may then mean different things on the wallet side and on
the merchant side. 

...

Best Regards,
Mia

Mia Lahteenmaki
[email-masked]
(Nokia Research Center)
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