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ltIFX_Forum_Annual_Meetinggt

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• April 23, 2003

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A very productive year

• Release of version 1.4
• Progress on 1.5 and a next generation of IFX that
  can leverage the infrastructure work being done
  elsewhere
• Adoption, though quiet, is in evidence

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A very Productive Year

• DISA is now providing technical support
• We have new leadership in Architecture and soon
  will have a new chair and life goes on, perhaps
  even improves.
• The Forum is strong

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IFX Forum Architecture Committee Update

• Annual Meeting
• April 23, 2003

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Architecture Committee

• 1.4 Released
• ATM / POS! (more on this later)
• BBWG new messages and enhancements
• New verbs Advise, Rev
• HexBin data type
• Schema and DTD that agree and validate
• Security messages

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Coming Year

• Web Services
• IFX 2.0
• IFX 1.5
• ATM/POS and BBWG enhancements

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ATM/POS Working Group
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ATM/POS WG - Milestones

• Initial meeting March 2002
• Authored 14 proposals for IFX 1.4
• Wrote an IFX ATM/POS Datasheet
• Two members are on the Board of Directors
• Five members are on the Architecture committee

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ATM/POS WG - Work In Progress

• Authoring an ATM/POS Implementation Guide
  (expected 2Q 2003)
• Planning 1.5 proposals
• Weekly conference calls
• Active participation from 10 companies

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ATM/POS WG - Future

• IFX 1.4 already contains most traditional ATM
  transactions.
• For future IFX versions we plan to author
  proposals for
• Pre-paid phone top-ups
• Money order purchase
• P2P payment
• Additional check and issuing POS functionality
• etc.

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Business Banking Working Group
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Business Banking Work Group

• Work Group Sponsors
• Bank of America - Susan Colles (Co-Chair)
• Other Work Group participants
• Alltel Info Svcs. - Jim Shain
• Wells Fargo Mark Tiggas, Debbie Canale
• Citibank - Len Schwartz
• S1 Group - Rich Urban
• State Farm Insurance Kim Durflinger
• PeopleSoft Gary Heck
• e-Bank Mike Haehn, Dusty Hines
• Sun Microsystems Frank Eaton
• MasterCard Pat Leathrum
• Innovision Corp. Liz Hiene

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BBWG Organization

• Meetings held 1st and 3rd Mondays each month via
  WebEx
• Face-to-face meetings quarterly
• Representative on IFX Architecture Committee

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IFX Specification 1.4

• Check Issue messages
• Foreign Exchange Deal messages
• Advise Verb
• DepAcctStmtAdvise
• PmtStatusAdvise
• PmtAckAdvise
• ChecksumAdvise
• Party to Account Relationship Messages

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2003 Activities

• Banking Service User Guide
• DepAcctTransAdvise
• ChkIssueAdvise
• Under consideration
• Letter of Credit
• Account Ownership
• Tax payments

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Web Services Working Group (WSWG)
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WSWG in 2003

• Created in Q1 2003
• Members a broad base of those that are building
  and implementing web services all over the
  ecosystem
• Weekly conference calls

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WSWG to Date

• Weekly conference calls education, input into
  standards, questions on architecture
• Information posted on SiteScape
• Matrix of features of current and developing web
  services standards

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WSWG Plans

• Implementation Guide
• Whitepaper submitted to Architecture on changes
  for 2.0 in keeping with suggested usage of web
  services
• Reference examples

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