Ada for Secure Electronic Transactions

Ada for Secure Electronic Transactions

[John Howard]

Posted here to notify people who might have an interest in establishing 
Ada for usage in digital commerce beginning later this year.  The SET 
mailing list (to join, see quote below) is presently discussing 
fundamentals.  Currently Web browser or Credit Card companies are 
primarily involved.

This may be an excellent opportunity to demonstrate and promote Ada 95 in 
context as a foundation before the assured proliferation of SET.  The 
immediate goal is to create sufficient interest to get SET specified and 
implemented early with Ada.

SET is the next big wave of technology nearly everyone will be using.  
Access to fundamental software components creates a more positive climate 
for smaller developers.  Creating SET components is a good idea because 
their adoption and spread is very likely as the Internet expands to 
handle commerce.

The Credit Card companies expect to see SET operational by the end of 
this year.  So work must be done soon.  Regardless of the outcome of the 
SET specification process, we should get organized and strive to be first 
to implement the SET specification.

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The set-discuss mailing list is a forum for comments and discussion about 
the Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) specification, proposed jointly 
by MasterCard and Visa to support credit card payments over the Internet. 
The specification is available for review at the MasterCard and Visa home
pages:

    http://www.mastercard.com
    http://www.visa.com

The CommerceNet consortium operates this mailing list as a service to the 
Internet community.

To subscribe to the set-discuss mailing list, send e-mail to:

                majordomo@commerce.net

...with a message body of:

                subscribe set-discuss
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-- John Howard <jhoward@sky.net>               -- Team Ada  Team OS/2 --
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