GlobeID, a French developer of electronic commerce payment systems, says it is the first company to be able to demonstrate an e-commerce transaction utilizing the emerging scripting language for e-payment systems, ECML. The electronic commerce modeling language, says Fabrice de Comarmond, GlobeID’s VP of business development, is already a subset of the GlobeID’s own application toolset, and the company is hoping to have more of its technology accepted as part of the emerging ECML standard.
ECML was announced last month by a group of computer, software and credit card companies, which see the scripting language as the best hope for establishing standard means of exchanging electronic wallet, and electronic customer profile information. Its supporters include Microsoft, Sun, AOL, IBM, Mastercard, Visa and American Express.
GlobeID has implemented ECML, a set of extensible mark-up language (XML), as part of its @Pay and @Wallet products: server side modules which retain customer billing address and payment instrument information on a merchant’s server. Because these products are implemented in ECML, the merchants can now offer other vendors goods for sale from their web sites invisibly to the customer, and enabling the customer to execute the transaction without having to create a separate billing and payment profile with the new merchant.
GlobeID’s de Comarmond said some aspects of the @Pay and @Wallet products go beyond what is presently supported by ECML, but he is hopeful that the ECML community will soon embrace these features, giving his start-up company a toe-hold in the development of what could become a de facto global standard.
