the X.9 Electronic Payments ANSI standard

[hallam at w3.org]

>The chair of the working group seems interesting
>in including anonymous token-based payment systems in the standard, "I
>see no reason, other than interest, for the group to avoid
>non-account-based payment systems, to complement the account-based
>payment systems that we are now in the process of standardizing."

I see a damn good reason. X.9 is meant to be fast tracking credit card
payment mechanisms. They are not meant to be going out solving every problem in 
the universe. They could attempt to standardise non account payment systems 
after they have done the problem they were given. 

	Phill