- From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:52:43 -0500 (EST)
- To: spreitze@parc.xerox.com
- Cc: michaelm@netsol.com, discuss@apps.ietf.org
spreitze@parc.xerox.com said this: > I'm surprised to hear you use word like "light weight, low to medium demand" > together with "credit card transactions". Maybe that's because it's not > clear to me where your protocols fit into the whole financial system; the > slots that are obvious to me have fairly high requirements for performance > and security. The slot for this particular example is between a server that frontends communication to the clearinghouse provider and our billing backend. It's secure but it only has 3 transaction types (verify, charge and refund). Since each transaction is small and atomic the load is no where near what something like our web servers put up with. > It seems to me that most big complicated things started out as small simple > things that succeeded and grew; how much do you want to plan for further > development of your protocols? For this one? None. Unless some huge paradigm shift happens in credit card processing I can't think of any changes we would ever make. -MM -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | michaelm@netsol.com
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