Switch / Ecom_Payment_Card_IssueNumber

Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:07:14 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.trade
Message-ID <[email protected]>
See messages below from Ray Bellis forwarded with his permission.

Thanks,
Donald
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-----Original Message-----
=46rom: Ray Bellis [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 12:35 PM
To: Eastlake III Donald-LDE008
Subject: Suggestion for ECML draft?

Dear Donald,

TS.com has some payment services software roughly conforming to ECML =
1.1
as described by RFC3106 (albeit based on the now obsolete www.ecml.or=
g
specifications rather than the RFC which we weren't aware of at the
time).

One "issue" we have (if you will exclude the pun) is that in the UK
there is a major acquirer called "Switch" whose cards have an "issue
number" (typically one or two digits) which we are required to includ=
e
in the X.25 card authorisation message sent to our bank.

In earlier versions we've (mis-)used the
"Ecom_Payment_Card_Verification" field to support this data, but now
that we need to actually support VISA CVV2 this option is no longer
available.

I therefore suggest that ECML should include a new
"ECom_Payment_Card_IssueNumber" field which can be officially used to
support this.

kind regards,

Ray Bellis

--
Ray Bellis, MA(Oxon) - Technical Director
community internet plc - ts.com Ltd

Windsor House, 12 High Street, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 2PJ
tel:  +44 1865 856000   email: [email protected]
fax:  +44 1865 856001     web: http://www.community.net.uk/


----Original Message-----
=46rom: Ray Bellis [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 1:04 PM
To: Eastlake III Donald-LDE008
Subject: Re: Suggestion for ECML draft?

> Your message should have been sent to the working group.
> May I forward it to the Working Group mailing list?

By all means, please do.

Also, I've found some extra information for you about Switch since my
previous e-mail from their web site (wwww.switch.co.uk).  They're har=
dly
a "minority" card here:

=B7 Launched in 1987
=B7 UK's leading debit card scheme
=B7 30 UK banks & building societies in membership
=B7 Accounts for nearly 1 in 3 of all UK card payments
=B7 1.3 billion transactions in 2001, equivalent to 44 transactions e=
very
second
=B7 22.1 million Switch cards in issue
=B7 An additional 6.3 million Solo debit cards in issue
=B7 Accepted by 595,000 outlets throughout the UK

regards,

Ray

--
Ray Bellis, MA(Oxon) - Technical Director
community internet plc - ts.com Ltd

Windsor House, 12 High Street, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 2PJ
tel:  +44 1865 856000   email: [email protected]
fax:  +44 1865 856001     web: http://www.community.net.uk/