RE: Welcome! - Current SCMP Draft Issues, Opening Discussion

Have you looked at the ediint stuff? how does this differ? I have read part
of the spec.... best regards, rik

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Subject: Welcome! - Current SCMP Draft Issues, Opening Discussion



Welcome to the SCMP discussion email list! Thanks to Paul Hoffman and IMC
for hosting the list.

This email list is for the discussion of the SCMP ( Simple Commerce
Messaging Protocol ). SCMP is a proposed standard for the exchange of
e-commerce messages over the internet.

The current draft can be found at,
http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-arnold-scmp-02.txt

SCMP Background

  SCMP was developed by engineers at the CyberSource corporation when a
need for a secure, real-time messaging protocol was identified. SCMP was
first used as a protocol for e-commerce transactions in March of 1997.
Since then the protocol has been modified many times. The S/MIME v2
informational RFC was incorporated into SCMP in May of 98.

  SCMP was developed to address e-commerce needs of message privacy,
authentication, authorization, accounting, and non-repudiation. In the
e-commerce world where financial transactions are made on behalf of trading
partners, usually the merchant and consumer, these protocol features are
required and have tangible consequences if not supported.

  Currently SCMP is the protocol used here at CyberSource to securely
communicate with over 300 internet merchants sending approximately 2
million transactions per month.

Draft Status

  The SCMP draft has been accepted by the Applications area of the IETF.
The Application area directors are Patrik Faltstrom and Keith Moore.  The
applications is suitable as SCMP is an application of S/MIME.

  The are several areas in the current draft that need clarification and/or
elaboration. I have made significant changes to the draft since the draft
was submitted to the IETF. I will post a follow up message stating these
changes and possibly the content of the latest draft.

The authors want to thank everybody in advance for contributing to the
draft.

Welcome and let the discussion begin!


Jason Eaton			CyberSource Corporation
Phone 408.260.6044		Security Engineering Manager
[email protected]	http://www.cybersource.com