[44988] in Cypherpunks
Re: the X.9 Electronic Payments ANSI standard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hallam@w3.org)
Fri Dec 8 11:10:58 1995
To: sameer <sameer@c2.org>, cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: hallam@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Dec 95 22:30:56 PST."
<199512080630.WAA17998@infinity.c2.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 95 11:03:55 -0500
From: hallam@w3.org
>The chair of the working group seems interesting
>in including anonymous token-based payment systems in the standard, "I
>see no reason, other than interest, for the group to avoid
>non-account-based payment systems, to complement the account-based
>payment systems that we are now in the process of standardizing."
I see a damn good reason. X.9 is meant to be fast tracking credit card
payment mechanisms. They are not meant to be going out solving every problem in
the universe. They could attempt to standardise non account payment systems
after they have done the problem they were given.
Phill
