Internet Open Trading Protocol (trade)

NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the . It may now be out-of-date.
In addition to this official charter maintained by the IETF Secretariat, there is additional information about this working group on the Web at:

       Additional Trade Page

Last Modified: 2004-03-15

Chair(s):

Donald Eastlake 3rd <Donald.Eastlake@motorola.com>

Applications Area Director(s):

Ted Hardie <hardie@qualcomm.com>
Scott Hollenbeck <sah@428cobrajet.net>

Applications Area Advisor:

Scott Hollenbeck <sah@428cobrajet.net>

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Description of Working Group:

The Internet Open Trading Protocol is an interoperable framework for
Internet commerce. It is optimized for the case where the buyer and
the merchant do not have a prior acquaintance and is payment system
independent. It can encapsulate and support payment systems such as
SET, Mondex, secure channel card payment, GeldKarte, etc. IOTP is
able to handle cases where such merchant roles as the shopping site,
the payment handler, the deliverer of goods or services, and the
provider of customer support are performed by different Internet
sites.

The working group will document interoperability experience with
IOTP version 1 (which has been published as an Informational RFC)
and develop the requirements and specifications for IOTP version 2.
Version 2 will make use of an independent Messaging Layer and utilize
standard XML Digital Signatures. Selection of other items for
inclusion in version requirements 2 is to be from the following:

- Dynamic Definition of Trading Sequences

- Offer Request Block

- Improved Problem Resolution (extend to cover presentation of
  signed receipt to customer support party, etc.)

- Ability to indicate and handle a payment protocol not
  tunneled through IOTP

- Support for wallet servers

- Repeated/ongoing payments - Server to Server messages

- The ability to add both fields and attributes to trading blocks

- Collaboration with other protocols such as ECML.

The following is out of scope for IOTP version 2:

- legal or regulatory issues surrounding the implementation of
  the protocol or information systems using it.

- design of an XML Messaging Layer

The working group will specify a Secure Channel Credit Debit syntax
that can be used for financial card payments in connection with
IOTP.

The working group will specify requirements and specifications for
Generic Rights Trading.

The working group will specify requirements for and then a syntax
and processing model of ECML (Electronic Commerce Modeling Language)
V2.

Goals and Milestones:

Done  Submit SET Supplement to IESG for publication as Informational
Done  Submit Architecture and Payment API to IESG forInformational
Done  Submit Generic Rights Trading Requirements for Informational
Done  Submit I-D on IOTP V2.0 Requirements
Done  Submit I-D on Generic Right Trading Specification
Done  Submit ECML V2.0 Requirements to IESG (Informational)
Done  Submit IOTP V2.0 Requirements (Informational)
Mar 02  Submit I-D on Secure Channel Credit/Debit ECML V2.0 Specification
Done  Submit Generic Right Trading Specification (Proposed Standard)
Jul 02  Submit Secure Channel Credit/Debit ECML V2.0 Specification (Proposed Standard).
Dec 02  Submit I-D on IOTP V2.0 Specification
Jul 03  Submit IOTP V2.0 Specification (Proposed Standard)

Internet-Drafts:

  • draft-ietf-trade-iotp-v1.0-papi-06.txt
  • draft-ietf-trade-voucher-lang-06.txt
  • draft-ietf-trade-ecml2-spec-13.txt
  • draft-ietf-trade-voucher-vtsapi-06.txt

    Request For Comments:

    RFCStatusTitle
    RFC2801 I Internet Open Trading Protocol - IOTP Version 1.0
    RFC2802 I Digital Signatures for the 1.0 Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP)
    RFC2803 I Digest Values for DOM (DOMHASH)
    RFC2935 PS Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) HTTP Supplement
    RFC2936 I HTTP MIME Type Handler Detection
    RFC3354 I Internet Open Trading Protocol Version 2 Requirements
    RFC3504 I Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) Version 1, Errata
    RFC3505 I Electronic Commerce Modeling Language (ECML):Version 2 Requirements
    RFC3506 I Requirements and Design for Voucher Trading System (VTS)
    RFC3538 I Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) Supplement for the v1.0 Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP)