RFC3867
Network Working Group Y. Kawatsura Request for Comments: 3867 Hitachi Category: Informational M. Hiroya
Technoinfo Service
H. Beykirch
Atos Origin
November 2004
Payment Application Programmers Interface (API) for v1.0
Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP)
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This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004).
Abstract
The Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) provides a data exchange format for trading purposes while integrating existing pure payment protocols seamlessly. This motivates the multiple layered system architecture which consists of at least some generic IOTP application core and multiple specific payment modules.
This document addresses a common interface between the IOTP application core and the payment modules, enabling the interoperability between these kinds of modules. Furthermore, such an interface provides the foundations for a plug-in-mechanism in actual implementations of IOTP application cores.
Such interfaces exist at the Consumers', the Merchants' and the Payment Handlers' installations connecting the IOTP application core and the payment software components/legacy systems.
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Message Flow
- 3 Mutuality
- 4 Payment API Calls
- 5 Call Back Function
- 6 Security Consideration
- 7 References
Introduction
Common network technologies are based on standardized and established Internet technologies. The Internet technologies provide mechanisms and tools for presentation, application development, network infrastructure, security, and basic data exchange.
Due to the presence of already installed trading roles' systems with their own interfaces (Internet shop, order management, payment, billing, and delivery management systems, or financial institute's legacy systems), IOTP has been limited to the common external interface over the Internet. However, some of these internal interfaces might be also standardized for better integration of IOTP aware components with of the existing infrastructure and its cost effective reuse. For more information on IOTP, see [IOTP] and [IOTPBOOK].
The typical Payment Handlers (i.e., financial institutes or near-bank organizations) as well as Merchants require an IOTP aware application that easily fits into their existing financial infrastructure. The Payment Handler might even insist on the reuse of special in-house solutions for some subtasks of the IOTP aware application, e.g., reflecting their cryptography modules, gateway interfaces, or physical environment. Therefore, their IOTP aware implementation really requires such clear internal interfaces.
More important, consumers demand modularization and clear internal interfaces: Their IOTP application aims at the support of multiple payment methods. Consumers prefer the flexible use of different seamless integrating payment methods within one trading application with nearly identical behavior and user interface. The existence of a well-defined interface enables payment software developers to bolt on their components to other developer's general IOTP Application Core.
Initially, this consideration leads to the two-level layered view of the IOTP software for each role, consisting of:
o some generic IOTP system component, the so-called IOTP application
core - providing IOTP based gateway services and generic business logic and
o the trading roles' specific back-end systems implementing the
specific trading transaction types' functionality.
In order to isolate the changes on the infrastructure, the IOTP trading application has been three-layered:
o the IOTP Application Core processes the generic parts of the IOTP
transaction and holds the connection to the Internet,
o the Existing Legacy System or Existing Payment Software which
processes the actual transaction type, and particular payment transaction, and
o the IOTP Middle-ware or IOTP Payment Bridge which glues the other
two possibly incompatible components. It brokers between the specific interface of the Existing Legacy System and the standardized interfaces of the IOTP Application Core.
As IOTP extends payment schemes to a trading scheme, primarily, this document focuses on payment modules, i.e., the interface between the IOTP Payment Bridge and the IOTP Application Core. It provides a standard method for exchanging payment protocol messages between the parties involved in a payment. But, it does not specify any interface for order or delivery processing.
Such a Payment Application Programmers Interface (API) must suit for a broad range of payment methods: (1) software based like Credit Card SET or CyberCoin, (2) chip card based like Mondex or GeldKarte, and (3) mimicries of typical and traditional payment methods like money transfer, direct debit, deposit, withdrawal, money exchange and value points. It should support both payments with explicit consumer acknowledge and automatic repeated payments, which have been consumer approved in advance. For more information on SET, see [SET].
The following discussion focuses on the Consumer's point of view and uses the associated terminology. When switching to Merchants' or Delivery Handlers' IOTP aware applications, the payment related components should be implicitly renamed by Existing Legacy Systems to the IOTP Middle-ware.
The next two sub-sections describe the general payment scenario and several assumptions about the coarsely sketched software components.
Section 2 illustrates the payment transaction progress and message flow of different kinds of transaction behavior. Sections 3 to 4 provide the details of the API functions and Section 5 elaborates the call back interface.
General payment phases
The following table sketches the four logical steps of many payment schemes. The preceding agreements about the goods, payment method, purchase amount, or delivery rules are omitted.
Payment State Party Example Behavior
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Mutual Payment Handler Generation of identification Authentication request, solvency request, or and some nonce Initialization Consumer Responses to the requests and
generation of own nonce
Authorization Payment Handler Generation of the authorization
request (for consumer)
Consumer Agreement to payment (by
reservation of the Consumer's
e-money)
Payment Handler Acceptance or rejection of the
agreement (consumer's
authorization response),
generation of the authorization
request (for issuer/acquirer),
and processing of its response
Capture Generation of the capture
request (for issuer/acquirer)
Consumer Is charged
Payment Handler Acceptance or rejection of the
e-money, close of the payment
transaction
Reversal On rejection (online/delayed):
generation of the reversal data
Consumer Receipt of the refund
However, some payment schemes:
o limit themselves to one-sided authentication, o perform off-line authorization without any referral to any
issuer/acquirer,
o apply capture processing in batch mode, or o do not distinguish between authorization and capture, o lack an inbound mechanism for reversals or implement a limited
variant.
This model applies not only to payments at the typical points of sales but extends to refunds, deposits, withdrawals, electronic cheques, direct debits, and money transfers.
Assumptions
In outline, the IOTP Payment Bridge processes some input sequence of payment protocol messages being forwarded by the IOTP Application Core. It (1) disassembles the messages, (2) maps them onto the formats of the Existing Payment Software, (3) assembles its responses, and (4) returns another sequence of payment protocol messages that is mostly intended for transparent transmission by the IOTP Application Core to some IOTP aware remote party. Normally, this process continues between the two parties until the Payment Handler's Payment API signals the payment termination. Exceptionally, each system component may signal failures.
The relationship between the aforementioned components is illustrated in the following figure. These components might be related to each other in a flexible n-to-m-manner:
o One IOTP Application Core may manage multiple IOTP Payment Bridges
and the latter might be shared between multiple IOTP Application Cores.
o Each Payment Bridge may manage multiple Existing Payment Software
modules and the latter might be shared between multiple Payment Bridges.
o Each Existing Payment Software may manage multiple payment schemes
(e.g., SET) and the latter might be supported by multiple Existing Payment Software modules. For more information on SET see [SET].
o Each payment scheme may support multiple payment instruments
(e.g., particular card) or methods (e.g., Visa via SET) and the latter might be shared by multiple Existing Payment Software Components.
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IOTP client (consumer) <---------------> IOTP server (merchant) ( contains Internet ( contains IOTP Application Core) IOTP Application Core)
^ ^
| IOTP Payment | IOTP Payment
| API | API
v v
IOTP Payment Bridge IOTP Payment Bridge
^ ^
| Existing Payment APIs, e.g., |
| SET, Mondex, etc. |
v v
Existing Payment Software Existing Payment Software
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Figure 1: Relationship of the Components
The Payment API considers the following transaction types of Baseline IOTP:
o Baseline Purchase, o Baseline Refund, o Baseline Value Exchange, o Baseline Withdrawal, and o Baseline (Payment) Inquiry.
For more information on Baseline IOTP, see [IOTP] and [IOTPBOOK].
First, the authors' vision of the IOTP aware application's and its main components' capabilities are clarified: On the one hand, the Payment API should be quite powerful and flexible for sufficient connection of the generic and specific components. On the other hand, the Payment API should not be overloaded with nice-to-haves being unsupported by Existing Payment Software.
Despite the strong similarities on the processing of successful payments, failure resolution and inquiry capabilities differ extremely among different payment schemes. These aspects may even vary between different payment instrument using the same payment schemes. Additionally, the specific requirements of Consumers, Merchants and Payment Handlers add variance and complexity. Therefore, it is envisioned that the IOTP Application Core provides only very basic inquiry mechanisms while complex and payment scheme specific inquiries, failure analysis, and failure resolution are fully deferred to the actual Existing Payment Software - including the user interface.
The IOTP Application Core processes payments transparently, i.e., it forwards the wrapped payment scheme specific messages to the associated IOTP Payment Bridge/Existing Payment Software. The Existing Payment Software might even use these messages for inbound failure resolution. It reports only the final payment status to the IOTP Application Core or some intermediate - might be also final - status on abnormal interruption.
The IOTP Application Core implements the generic and payment scheme independent part of the IOTP transaction processing and provides the suitable user interface. Focusing on payment related tasks, it
o manages the registered IOTP Payment Bridges and provides a
mechanism for their registration - the latter is omitted by this document.
o assumes that any IOTP Payment Bridge is a passive component, i.e.,
it strictly awaits input data and generates one response to each request,
o supports the payment negotiation (Consumer: selection of the
actual payment instrument or method; Merchant: selection of the payment methods being offered to the Consumer) preceding the payment request,
o requests additional payment specific support from the Existing
Payment Software via the selected and registered the IOTP Payment Bridge,
o initializes and terminates the Existing Payment Software via the
IOTP Payment Bridge,
o inquires authentication data (for subsequent request or response)
from the Existing Payment Software, specific authentication component - omitted in this document - or Consumer (by a suitable user interface),
o supervises the online transaction process and traces its progress,
o stores the transaction data being exchanged over the IOTP wire -
payment scheme specific data is handled transparently,
o relates each payment transaction with multiple payment parameters
(IOTP Transaction Identifier, Trading Protocol Options, Payment Instrument/Method, Offer Response, IOTP Payment Bridge, and Wallet Identifier, associated remote Parties). The relation might be
lowered to the party's Payment Identifier, IOTP Payment Bridge, Wallet Identifier, and the remote parties when the actual payment transaction has been successfully started.
o implements a payment transaction progress indicator,
o enables the inquiry of pending and completed payment transactions,
o implements generic dialogs, e.g., brand selection, payment
acknowledge, payment suspension / cancellation, receipt visualization, basic transaction inquiry, balance inquiry, or receipt validation,
o defers payment specific processing, supervision, validation, and
error resolution to the Existing Payment Software. It is expected, that the Existing Payment Software will try to resolve many errors first by the extended exchange of Payment Exchange messages. The most significant and visible failures arise from sudden unavailability or lapses of the local or opposing payment component.
o supports the invocation of any Existing Payment Software in an
interactive mode, which might be used (1) for the payment scheme specific post-processing of a (set of) payment transactions, (2) for the analysis of a payment instrument, (3) for the registration of a new payment instrument/scheme, or (4) re-configuration of a payment instrument/scheme.
o exports call back functions for use by the IOTP Payment Bridge or
Existing Payment Software for progress indication.
In addition, the IOTP Application Core
o manages the IOTP message components and IOTP message blocks
exchanged during the transaction which may be referenced and accessed during the processing of subsequent messages, e.g., for signature verification. In particular, it stores named Packaged Content elements exchanged during payments.
o manages several kinds of identifiers, i.e., transaction, message,
component, and block identifiers,
o implements a message caching mechanism,
o detects time-outs at the protocol and API level reflecting the
communication with both the IOTP aware remote party and the Payment API aware local periphery, e.g., chip card (reader) may raise time-outs.
However, the IOTP Payment Bridge and Existing Payment Software do not have to rely on all of these IOTP Application Core's capabilities. E.g., some Consumer's Existing Payment Software may refuse the disclosure of specific payment instruments at brand selection time and may delay this selection to the "Check Payment Possibility" invocation using its own user interface.
The IOTP Payment Bridge's capabilities do not only deal with actual payments between the Consumer and the Payment Handler but extend to the following:
o translation and (dis)assemblage of messages between the formats of
the IOTP Payment API and those of the Existing Payment Software. Payment API requests and response are strictly 1-to-1 related.
o Consumer's payment instrument selection by the means of an
unsecured/public export of the relationship of payment brands, payment protocols, and payment instruments (identifiers). Generally, this includes not just the brand (Mondex, GeldKarte, etc.) but also which specific instance of the instrument and currency to use (e.g., which specific Mondex card and which currency of all those available).
However, some Existing Payment Software may defer the selection of the payment instrument to the actual payment carrying-out or it may even lack any management of payment instruments. E.g., chip card based payment methods may offer - Point of Sale like - implicit selection of the payment instrument by simple insertion of the chip card into the chip card reader or it interrogates the inserted card and requests an acknowledge (or selection) of the detected payment instrument(s).
o payment progress checks, e.g., is there enough funds available to
carry out the purchase, or enough funds left for the refund,
o IOTP Payment Receipt checks which might be performed over its
Packaged Content or by other means.
o recoding of payment scheme specific receipts into a format which
can be displayed to the user or printed,
o cancellation of payment, even though it is not complete,
o suspension and resumption of payment transactions. Two kinds of
failures the Existing Payment Software might deal with are (1) the time-out of the network connection and (2) lack of funds. For resolution, the IOTP Application Core may try the suspension with a view to later possible resumption.
o recording the payment progress and status on a database. E.g.,
information about pending payments might be used to assist their continuation when the next payment protocol message is received.
o payment transaction status inquiry, so that the inquirer - IOTP
Application Core or User - can determine the appropriate next step.
o balance inquiry or transaction history, e.g., consumers may
interrogate their chip card based payment instrument or remotely administer some account in advance of a payment transaction acknowledge,
o inquiry on abnormal interrupted payment transactions, which might
be used by the IOTP Application Core to resolve these pending transactions at startup (after power failure).
o payment progress indication. This could be used to inform the end
user of details on what is happening with the payment.
o payment method specific authentication methods.
Existing Payment Software may not provide full support of these capabilities. E.g., some payment schemes may not support or may even prevent the explicit transaction cancellation at arbitrary phases of the payment process. In this case, the IOTP Payment Bridge has to implement at least skeletons that signal such lack of support by the use of specific error codes (see below).
The Existing Payment Software's capabilities vary extremely. It
o supports payment scheme specific processing, supervision,
validation, and error resolution. It is expected, that many errors are tried to be resolved first by the extended exchange of Payment Exchange messages.
o provides hints for out-of-band failure resolution on failed
inbound resolution - inbound resolution is invisible to the IOTP Application Core.
o may implement arbitrary transaction data management and inquiry
mechanisms ranging from no transaction recording, last transaction recording, chip card deferred transaction recording, simple transaction history to sophisticated persistent data management with flexible user inquiry capabilities. The latter is required by Payment Handlers for easy and cost effective failure resolution.
o implements the payment scheme specific dialog boxes.
Even the generic dialog boxes of the IOTP Application Core might be unsuitable: Particular (business or scheme) rules may require some dedicated appearance / structure / content or the dialog boxes, may prohibit the unsecured export of payment instruments, or may prescribe the pass phrase input under its own control.
Message Flow
The following lists all functions of the IOTP Payment API:
o Brand Compilation Related API Functions
"Find Accepted Payment Brand" identifies the accepted payment brands for any indicated currency amount.
"Find Accepted Payment Protocol" identifies the accepted payment protocols for any indicated currency amount (and brand) and returns payment scheme specific packaged content for brand selection purposes.
This function might be used in conjunction with the aforementioned function or called without any brand identifier.
"Get Payment Initialization Data" returns additional payment scheme specific packaged content for payment processing by the payment handler.
"Inquire Authentication Challenge" returns the payment scheme specific authentication challenge value.
"Check Authentication Response" verifies the returned payment scheme specific authentication response value.
"Change Process State" is used (here only) for abnormal termination. (cf. Payment Processing Related API Functions).
o Brand Selection Related API Functions
"Find Payment Instrument" identifies which instances of a payment instrument of a particular payment brand are available for use in a payment.
"Check Payment Possibility" checks whether a specific payment instrument is able to perform a payment.
"Authenticate" forwards any payment scheme specific authentication data to the IOTP Payment Bridge for processing.
"Change Process State" is used (here only) for abnormal termination. (cf. Payment Processing Related API Functions).
o Payment Processing Related API Functions
"Start or Resume Payment Consumer/Payment Handler" initiate or resume a payment transaction. There exist specific API functions for the two trading roles Consumer and Payment Handler.
"Continue Process" forwards payment scheme specific data to the Existing Payment Software and returns more payment scheme specific data for transmission to the counter party.
"Change Process State" changes the current status of payment transactions. Typically, this call is used for termination or suspension without success.
o General Inquiry API Functions
"Remove Payment Log" notifies the IOTP Payment Bridge that a particular entry has been removed from the Payment Log of the IOTP Application Core.
"Payment Instrument Inquiry" retrieves the properties of Payment Instruments.
"Inquire Pending Payment" reports any abnormal interrupted payment transaction known by the IOTP Payment Bridge.
Payment Processing Related Inquiry API Functions
"Check Payment Receipt" checks the consistency and validity of IOTP Payment Receipts, received from the Payment Handler or returned by "Inquire Process State" API calls. Typically, this function is called by the Consumer during the final processing of payment transactions. Nevertheless, this check might be advantageous both for Consumers and Payment Handlers on failure resolution.
"Expand Payment Receipt" expands the Packaged Content of IOTP Payment Receipts as well as payment scheme specific payment receipts into a form which can be used for display or printing purposes.
"Inquire Process State" responds with the payment state and the IOTP Payment Receipt Component. Normally, this function is called by the Payment Handler for final processing of the payment transaction.
"Start Payment Inquiry" prepares the remote inquiry of the payment transaction status and responds with payment scheme specific data that might be needed by the Payment Handler for the Consumer initiated inquiry processing.
"Inquire Payment Status" is called by the Payment Handler on Consumer initiated inquiry requests. This function returns the payment scheme specific content of the Inquiry Response Block.
"Continue Process" and "Change Process State" (cf. Payment Processing Related API Calls)
o Other API Functions
"Manage Payment Software" enables the immediate activation of the Existing Payment Software. Further user input is under control of the Existing Payment Software.
"Call Back" provides a general interface for the visualization of transaction progress by the IOTP Application Core.
The following table shows which API functions must (+), should (#), or might (?) be implemented by which Trading Roles.
API function Consumer Payment Handler Merchant
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Find Accepted Payment Brand + Find Accepted Payment Protocol # Find Payment Instrument +
Get Payment Initialization Data + Check Payment Possibility +
Start Payment Consumer + Start Payment Payment Handler + Resume Payment Consumer # Resume Payment Payment Handler #
Continue Process + + Inquire Process State + + ? Change Process State + + ? Check Payment Receipt + ? Expand Payment Receipt # ?
Remove Payment Log ? ? ?
Inquire Authentication Challenge ?
Authenticate + Check Authentication Response ?
Payment Instrument Inquiry ? Inquire Pending Payment # # Start Payment Inquiry ? Inquire Payment Status ?
Manage Payment Software # ? ?
Call Back #
Table 1: Requirements on API Functions by the Trading Roles
The next sections sketch the relationships and the dependencies between the API functions. They provide the informal description of the progress alternatives and depict the communication and synchronization between the general IOTP Application Core and the payment scheme specific modules.
Authentication Documentation Exchange
This section describes how the functions in this document are used together to process authentication.
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Authenticator Inquire Authentication Challenge(Alg1*) -> IPB
Inq. Auth. Challenge Response(Alg1,Ch1) <- IPB
. . .
Inquire Authentication Challenge(Algn*) -> IPB
Inq. Auth. Challenge Response(Algn,Chn) <- IPB
Create and transmit Authentication Request Block
Authenticatee Authenticate(Alg1, Ch1) -> IPB
AuthenticateResponse(...) <- IPB
. . .
Authenticate(Algm, Chm) -> IPB
AuthenticateResponse(Res) <- IPB
Create and transmit Authentication Response Block
Authenticator Check Authentication Response(Algm,Chm,Res)->IPB
Check Auth. Response() <-IPB
Create and transmit Authentication Status Block
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Figure 2. Authentication Message Flows
1. (Authenticator Process) None, one or multiple IOTP Payment Bridges
(IPB) are requested for one or multiple authentication challenge
values ("Inquire Authentication Challenge"). Each value is
encapsulated in an IOTP Authentication Request Component. In
addition, the IOTP Application Core may add payment scheme
independent authentication methods. All of them form the final
IOTP Authentication Request Block, which describes the set of
authentication methods being supported by the authenticator and
from which the Authenticatee has to choose one method.
Note that the interface of the API function is limited to the
response of exactly one algorithm per call. If the IOTP
Application Core provides a choice of algorithms for input, this
choice should be reduced successively by the returned algorithm
({Alg(i+1)*} is subset of {Algi*}).
During the registration of new Payment Instruments, the IOTP Payment Bridge notifies the IOTP Application Core about the supported authentication algorithms.
2. On the presence of an IOTP Authentication Block within the
received IOTP message, the Authenticatee's IOTP Application Core checks whether the IOTP transaction type in the current phase actually supports the authentication process.
For each provided Authentication Request Component, the IOTP Application Core analyzes the algorithms' names, the transaction context, and optionally user preferences in order to determine the system components which are capable to process the authentication request items. Such system components might be the IOTP Application Core itself or any of the registered IOTP Payment Bridges.
Subsequently, the IOTP Application Core requests the responses to the supplied challenges from the determined system components in any order. The authentication trials stop with the first successful response, which is included in the IOTP Authentication Response Block.
Alternatively, the IOTP Application might ask for a user selection. This might be appropriate, if two or more authentication algorithms are received that require explicit user interaction, like PIN or chip card insertion.
The Authenticatee's organizational data is requested by an IOTP Authentication Request Block without any content element. On failure, the authentication (sequence) might be retried, or the whole transaction might be suspended or cancelled.
3. (Authenticator Process) The IOTP Application Core checks the
presence of the IOTP Authentication Response Component in the
Authentication Response Block and forwards its content to the
generator of the associated authentication challenge for
verification ("Check Authentication Response").
On sole organizational data request, its presence is checked.
Any verification must succeed in order to proceed with the transaction.
Brand Compilation
The following shows how the API functions are used together so that the Merchant can (1) compile the Brand List Component, (2) generate the Payment Component, and (3) adjust the Order Component with payment scheme specific packaged content.
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Merchant For each registered IOTP Payment Bridge
| Find Accepted Payment Brand() -> IPB
| Find Accepted Payment Brand Response (B*) <- IPB
| Find Accepted Payment Protocol(B1) -> IPB
| Find Accepted Payment Protocol Res.(P1*) <- IPB
| . . .
| Find Accepted Payment Protocol(Bn) -> IPB
| Find Accepted Payment Protocol Res.(Pn*) <- IPB
Create one Brand List Component, ideally sharing
common Brand, Protocol Amount, Currency Amount,
and Pay Protocol Elements
Create Trading Protocol Options Block
On brand independent transactions
| Create Brand Selection Component, implicitly
| Get Payment Initialization Data(B1,P1) -> IPB
| Get Payment Initialization Data Res.() <- IPB
| Optionally
| | Inquire Process State() -> IPB
| | Inquire Process State Response(State) <- IPB
| Create Offer Response Block
Transmit newly created Block(s)
Consumer Consumer selects Brand (Bi)/Currency/Protocol (Pj)
from those that will work and generates Brand
Selection Component - at least logically
On brand dependent transaction
| Transmit Brand Selection Component
Merchant On brand dependent transaction
| Get Payment Initialization Data(Bi,Pj) -> IPB
| Get Payment Initialization Data Res.() <- IPB
| Optionally
| | Inquire Process State() -> IPB
| | Inquire Process State Response(State) <- IPB
| Create Offer Response Block
| Transmit newly created Block
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Figure 3. Brand Compilation Message Flows
1. The Merchant's commerce server controls the shopping dialog with
its own mechanisms until the Consumer checks out the shopping cart and indicates the payment intention. The notion shopping subsumes any non-IOTP based visit of the Merchant Trading Role's (which subsumes Financial Institutes) web site in order to negotiate the content of the IOTP Order Component. The subsequent processing switches to the IOTP based form by the activation of the Merchant's IOTP aware application.
2. The IOTP Application Core inquires for the IOTP level trading
parameters (Consumer's shopping identifier, payment direction, initial currency amounts, discount rates, Merchant's and Delivery Handler's Net Locations, Non-Payment Handler's Organizational
3. The registered IOTP Payment Bridges are inquired by the IOTP
Application Core about the accepted payment brands ("Find
Accepted Payment Brand"). Their responses provide most of the
attribute values for the compilation of the Brand List
Component's Brand Elements. The IOTP Application Core might
optionally match the returned payment brands with Merchant's
general preferences.
The IOTP Application Core must provide any wallet identifiers, if they are required by the IOTP Payment Bridges which signal their need by specific error codes (see below). Any signaled error that could not be immediately solved by the IOTP Application Core should be logged - this applies also to the subsequent API calls of this section. In this case, the IOTP Application Core creates an IOTP Error Block (hard error), transmits it to the Consumer, and terminates the current transaction.
4. The IOTP Application Core interrogates the IOTP Payment Bridges
for each accepted payment brand about the supported payment
protocols ("Find Accepted Payment Protocol"). These responses
provide the remaining attribute values of the Brand Elements as
well as all attribute values for the compilation of the Brand
List Component's Protocol Amount and Pay Protocol Elements.
Furthermore, the organisational data about the Payment Handler is returned. The IOTP Application Core might optionally match the returned payment brands with Merchant's general preferences.
Alternatively, the IOTP Application Core might skip the calls of "Find Accepted Payment Brands" (cf. Step 3) and issue the "Find Accepted Payment Protocol" call without any Brand given on the input parameter list. In this case, the IOTP Payment Bridge responds to the latter call with the whole set of payment schemes supported w.r.t. the other input parameters.
5. The steps 3 and 4 are repeated during IOTP Value Exchange
transactions - these steps are omitted in the previous figure.
6. The IOTP Application Core compiles the Brand List Component(s)
and the IOTP Trading Protocol Options Block. It is recommended that the "equal" items returned by IOTP Payment Bridge function calls are shared due to the extensive linking capabilities within
the Brand List Component. However, the compilation must consider several aspects in order to prevent conflicts - sharing detection might be textual matching (after normalization):
o Packaged Content Elements contained in the Brand List Component
(and subsequently generated Payment and Order Components) might
be payment scheme specific and might depend on each other.
o Currently, IOTP lacks precise rules for the content of the
Packaged Content Element. Therefore, transaction / brand /
protocol / currency amount (in)dependent data might share the
same Packaged Content Element or might spread across multiple
Packaged Content Elements.
o The Consumer's IOTP Application Core transparently passes the
Packaged Content Elements to the IOTP Payment Bridges which
might not be able to handle payment scheme data of other
payment schemes, accurately.
The rules and mechanisms of how this could be accomplished are out of the scope of this document. Furthermore, this document does not define any further restriction to the IOTP specification.
7. The IOTP Application Core determines whether the IOTP message can
be enriched with an Offer Response Block. This is valid under the following conditions:
o All payment alternatives share the attribute values and
Packaged Content Elements of the subsequently generated IOTP
Payment and Order Components.
o The subsequently generated data does not depend on any IOTP
BrandSelInfo Elements that might be reported by the consumer
within the TPO Selection Block in the brand dependent variant.
If both conditions are fulfilled, the IOTP Application Core might
request the remaining payment scheme specific payment
initialization data from the IOTP Payment Bridge ("Get Payment
Initialization Data") and compile the IOTP Offer Response Block.
Optionally, the IOTP Application Core might request the current process state from the IOTP Payment Bridge and add the inferred order status to the IOTP Offer Response Block. Alternatively, IOTP Application might determine the order status on its own.
As in step 6, the rules and mechanisms of how this could be accomplished are out of the scope of this document.
8. The IOTP Application Core compiles the IOTP TPO Message including
all compiled IOTP Blocks and transmits the message to the Consumer. The IOTP Application Core terminates if an IOTP Offer Response Block has been created.
9. The Consumer performs the Brand Selection Steps (cf. Section 2.3)
and responds with a TPO Selection Block if no IOTP Offer Response Block has been received. Otherwise, the following step is skipped.
10. On brand dependent transactions, the IOTP Application Core
requests the remaining payment scheme specific payment
initialization data from the IOTP Payment Bridge ("Get Payment
Initialization Data"), compiles the IOTP Offer Response Block,
transmits it to the Consumer, and terminates. Like Step 7, the
IOTP Application Core might access the current process state of
the IOTP Payment Bridge for the compilation of the order status.
Any error during this process raises an IOTP Error Block.
Brand Selection
This section describes the steps that happen mainly after the Merchant's Brand Compilation (in a brand independent transaction). However, these steps might partially interlace the previous process (in a brand dependent transaction).
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Merchant Merchant generates Brand List(s) containing
Brands, Payment Protocols and Currency Amounts
On brand independent transactions
| Merchant generates Offer Response Block
Consumer Compile set(s) of Brands B/Protocols P
for each set
| Find Payment Instrument(B, P, C) -> IPB
| Find Payment Instrument Response (PI*) <- IPB
Consumer selects Brand/Currency/Payment Instrument
from those that will work and generates Brand
Selection Component
For the Selection
| Get Payment Initialization Data(B,C,PI,P) -> IPB
| Get Payment Initialization Data Response()<- IPB
On brand dependent transaction
| Generate and transmit TPO Selection Block
Merchant On brand dependent transaction
| Merchant checks Brand Selection and generates
| and transmits Offer Response Block
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Figure 4. Brand Selection Message Flows
1. The Merchant's commerce server controls the shopping dialog with
its own mechanisms until the Consumer checks out the shopping cart and indicates his payment intention. The subsequent processing switches to the IOTP based form by the activation of the Merchant's IOTP aware application.
2. The IOTP Application Core compiles the IOTP Trading Protocol
Options Block which contains the IOTP Brand List Component(s) enumerating Merchant's accepted payment brands and payment protocols and initiates the Brand Selection process.
3. This first IOTP message activates the Consumer's IOTP aware
application, e.g., the Web browser invokes a helper application (e.g., Java applet or external application). Its IOTP Application Core
o infers the accepted payment brands, payment protocols, payment
direction, currencies, payment amounts, any descriptions etc.,
and their relationships from the IOTP message,
o determines the registered IOTP Payment Bridges,
o compiles one or multiple sets of brand and protocol such that
the join of all sets describes exactly the payment alternatives
being offered by the Merchant.
o inquires payment (protocol) support and the known payment
instruments from each registered IOTP Payment Bridge for each
compiled set ("Find Payment Instrument"). However, some IOTP
Payment Bridges may refuse payment instrument distinction.
The payment protocol support may differ between payment instruments if the IOTP Payment Bridge supports payment instrument distinction.
These API calls are used to infer the payment alternatives at the startup of any payment transaction (without user unfriendly explicit user interaction).
The IOTP Application Core must provide wallet identifiers, if they are requested by the IOTP Payment Bridges which signal their need by specific error codes (see below).
It is recommended that the IOTP Application Core manages wallet identifiers. But for security reasons, it should store pass phrases in plain text only in runtime memory. Developers of IOTP
Payment Bridges and payment software modules should provide a thin and fast implementation - without lengthy initialization processes - for this initial inquiry step.
4. The IOTP Application Core verifies the Consumer's payment
capabilities with the Merchant's accepted payment brands and currencies,
o displays the valid payment instruments and payment instrument
independent payment brands (brand and protocol) together with
their purchase parameters (payment direction, currency,
amount), and
o requests the Consumer's choice or derives it automatically from
any configured preferences. Any selection ties one IOTP
Payment Bridge with the following payment transaction.
The handling and resolution of unavailable IOTP Payment Bridges during the inquiry in Step 3 is up to the IOTP Application Core. It may skip these IOTP Payment Bridges or may allow user supported resolution.
Furthermore, it may offer the registration of new payment instruments when the Consumer is asked for payment instrument selection.
5. The IOTP Application Core interrogates the fixed IOTP Payment
Bridge whether the payment might complete with success ("Check
Payment Possibility"). At this step, the IOTP Payment Bridge may
issue several signals, e.g.,
o payment can proceed immediately,
o required peripheral inclusive of some required physical payment
instrument (chip card) is unavailable,
o (non-IOTP) remote party (e.g., issuer, server wallet) is not
available,
o wallet identifier or pass phrase is required,
o expired payment instrument (or certificate), insufficient
funds, or
o physical payment instrument unreadable.
In any erroneous case, the user should be notified and offered accurate alternatives. Most probably, the user might be offered
o to resolve the problem, e.g., to insert another payment
instrument or to verify the periphery,
o to proceed (assuming its success),
o to cancel the whole transaction, or
o to suspend the transaction, e.g., initiating a nested
transaction for uploading an electronic purse.
If the payment software implements payment instrument selection on its own, it may request the Consumer's choice at this step.
If the check succeeds, it returns several IOTP Brand Selection Info Elements.
6. The Steps 2 to 5 are repeated and possibly interlaced for the
selection of the second payment instrument during IOTP Value Exchange transactions - this is omitted in the figure above.
7. The IOTP Brand Selection Component is generated and enriched with
the Brand Selection Info elements. This component is transmitted to the Merchant inside a TPO Selection Block if the received IOTP message lacks the IOTP Offer Response Block. The Merchant will then respond with an IOTP Offer Response Block (following the aforementioned compilation rules).
Successful Payment
An example of how the functions in this document are used together to effect a successful payment is illustrated in the Figure 5. In the figure 5, PS0, PS1, ..., and PSn indicate the nth PayScheme Packaged Content data, and [ ] indicates optional.
(Technically, two payments happen during IOTP Value Exchange transactions.)
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Consumer Start Payment Consumer(Amount,[PS0]...) -> IPB
Start Payment Cons. Res.([PS1], CS=Cont.) <- IPB
Create and transmit Payment Request Block
Payment Handler Start Payment Pay. Handler(Amount, [PS1]) -> IPB
Start Payment PH Response(PS2, CS=Cont.) <- IPB
Create and transmit Payment Exchange Block
Consumer Continue Process(PS2) -> IPB
Continue Process Response(PS3, CS=Cont.) <- IPB
... CONTINUE SWAPPING PAYMENT EXCHANGES UNTIL ...
Payment Handler Continue Process Response([PSn], CS=End) <- IPB
Request any local payment receipt
| Inquire Process State() -> IPB
| Inquire Proc. State Resp.(State, [Rcp.])<- IPB
Create and transmit Payment Response Block
Terminate transaction, actively
| Change Process State(State) -> IPB
| Change PS Response(State=CompletedOK) <- IPB
Consumer On receipt of final payment scheme data
| Continue Process(PSn) -> IPB
| Continue Process Response(CS=End) <- IPB
Check Payment Receipt(Receipt) -> IPB
Check Payment Receipt Response() <- IPB
Request any local payment receipt
| Inquire Process State() -> IPB
| Inquire Proc. State Resp.(State, [Rcp.])<- IPB
Terminate transaction, actively
| Change Process State(State) -> IPB
| Change PS Response(State=CompletedOk) <- IPB
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Figure 5. Example Payment Message Flows
1. After Brand Selection and receipt of the IOTP Offer Response
Block, the Consumer switches from communicating with the Merchant to communicating with the Payment Handler.
This might be a milestone requiring the renewed Consumer's agreement about the payment transaction's continuation. Particularly, this is a good moment for payment suspension (and even cancellation), which will be most probably supported by all payment schemes. Simply, because the actual payment legacy systems have not yet been involved in the current transaction.
Such an agreement might be explicit per transaction or automatic based on configured preferences, e.g., early acknowledgments for specific payment limits.
It is assumed, that the transaction proceeds with minimal user (Consumer and Payment Handler) interaction and that its progress is controlled by the IOTP Application Core and IOTP Payment Bridge.
2. In order to open the actual payment transaction, the IOTP
Application Core issues the "Start Payment Consumer" request towards the IOTP Payment Bridge. This request carries the whole initialization data of the payment transaction being referred to by the IOTP Payment Bridge for subsequent consistency checks:
o payment brand and its description from the selected Brand
Element of the IOTP Brand List Component,
o payment instrument from preceding inquiry step,
o further payment parameters (currency, amount, direction,
expiration) from the selected Currency Amount element, Brand
List Component, and Payment Component of the IOTP Offer
Response Block,
o payment protocol from the selected IOTP Pay Protocol Element,
o order details contained in the IOTP Order Component which might
be payment scheme specific,
o payment scheme specific data inclusive of the payment protocol
descriptions from the IOTP Protocol Amount Element, and IOTP
Pay Protocol Element, and
o payment scheme specific data inclusive of the payment protocol
descriptions, in which the name attribute includes the prefix
as "Payment:" from the Trading Role Data Component.
Generally, the called API function re-does most checks of the "Check Payment Possibility" call due to lack of strong dependencies between both requests: There might be a significant delay between both API requests.
The called API function may return further payment scheme specific data being considered as payment specific initialization data for the Payment Handler's IOTP Payment Bridge.
If the fixed Existing Payment Software implements payment instrument selection on its own, it may request the Consumer's choice at this step.
The IOTP Payment Bridge reports lack of capability quite similarly to the "Check Payment Possibility" request to the IOTP Application Core. The Consumer may decide to resolve the problem, to suspend, or to cancel the transaction, but this function call must succeed in order to proceed with the transaction.
Developers of payment modules may decide to omit payment instrument related checks like expiration date or refunds sufficiency, if such checks are part of the specific payment protocol.
If the IOTP Payment Bridge requests wallet identifiers or pass phrases anywhere during the payment process, they should be requested by this API function, too. It is recommended that the IOTP Application Core stores plain text pass phrases only in runtime memory.
Finally, the IOTP Application Core generates the IOTP Payment Request Block, inserts any returned payment scheme data, and submits it to the Payment Handler's system.
3. The Payment Handler's IOTP Application Core opens the payment
transaction calling the "Start Payment Payment Handler" API function. The payment brand, its description, payment protocol, payment specific data, payment direction, currency and payment amount are determined quite similar to the Consumer's IOTP Application Core. Furthermore, the content of the IOTP Payment Scheme Component and the IOTP Brand Selection Info Elements are passed to this function.
On success, the Payment Handler's IOTP Payment Bridge responds with payment scheme specific data. On failures, this non- interactive server application has to resolve any problems on its own or to give up aborting the payment transaction. However, the Consumer may restart the whole payment transaction. Anyway, the payment log file should reflect any trials of payments.
Eventually, the Payment Handler informs the Consumer about the current IOTP Process State using the IOTP Payment Response or IOTP Error Block.
Note that the "Start Payment Payment Handler" call might return the Continuation Status "End" such that payment processing proceeds with Step 7.
4. The IOTP Application Core verifies the presence of the Payment
Exchange Block in the IOTP message and passes the contained
payment scheme specific data to the fixed IOTP Payment Bridge
("Continue Process") which returns the next IOTP Payment Scheme
Component.
This Payment Scheme Component is encapsulated in an IOTP Payment Exchange Block and transmitted to the Payment Handler.
5. The Payment Handler's IOTP Application Core verifies the presence
of the Payment Exchange Block and passes the contained payment
scheme specific data to the fixed IOTP Payment Bridge ("Continue
Process") which returns the next IOTP Payment Scheme Component for
encapsulation and transmission to the Consumer.
6. The payment process continues with IOTP Payment Exchange Block
exchanges, carrying the payment scheme specific data. Each party (1) submits the embedded payment scheme specific data transparently to the appropriate IOTP Payment Bridge calling the "Continue Process" API function, (2) wraps the returned payment scheme specific data into an IOTP Payment Exchange Block, and (3) transmits this block to the counter party.
However, the processing of the payment scheme specific data may fail for several reasons. These are signaled by specific error codes which are transformed to IOTP Payment Response Blocks (generated by Payment Handler) or IOTP Error Blocks (both parties may generate them) and transmitted to the counter party.
7. Eventually, the Payment Handler's IOTP Payment Bridge recognizes
the termination of the payment transaction and reports this by the continuation status "End" on the output parameter of "Continue Process" (or "Start Payment Payment Handler"). Then, the IOTP Application Core issues the "Inquire Process State" API call and verifies whether an IOTP Payment Receipt Component has been returned. The IOTP Application Core wraps the payment receipt, the status response, and the optional payment scheme specific data in an IOTP Payment Response Block and transmits this block to the Consumer.
However, any of these API calls may fail or any response might be incomplete (e.g., lack of payment receipt). Then, the Consumer has to be notified about the failed processing by an IOTP Error Block.
Finally, the Payment Handler terminates the payment transaction with the "Change Process State" API call without awaiting any further response from the Consumer. Further failures are not reported to the Consumer.
Note that it might be possible that the Consumer's IOTP Payment Bridge has returned the previous payment scheme specific data with the continuation status "End". Even in the absence of this knowledge - this status is not exchanged between the Consumer and the Payment Handler - the Payment Handler must not supply any further payment scheme specific data. Such data will be rejected by the Consumer's IOTP Payment Bridge.
8. The Consumer passes the optional payment scheme specific data and
the payment receipt to the fixed IOTP Payment Bridge by "Continue Process" and "Check Payment Receipt" API calls.
Afterwards, the IOTP Application Core issues the "Inquire Process State" API call and verifies whether extensions to the payment receipt have been returned.
Finally, the transaction is terminated by calling the "Change Process State" API function which verifies and synchronizes the reported payment status with the local one and signals any inconsistencies. Any Inconsistency and returned status text should be displayed to the Consumer.
At this point, the payment transaction has already been closed by the Payment Handler. Therefore, any failure has to be resolved locally or out-of-band.
Payment Inquiry
In Baseline IOTP, Payment inquiries are initiated by the Consumer in order to verify the current payment progress and process state at the remote Payment Handler. In the figure 6, PS1 and PS2 indicate the first and second PayScheme Packaged Content data, and [ ] indicates optional.
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Consumer Start Payment Inquiry() -> IPB
Start Payment Inquiry Response([PS1]) <- IPB
Create and transmit Inquiry Request Trading Block
Payment Handler Inquire Payment Status([PS1]) -> IPB
Inquire Payment Status Res.(State, [PS2]) -> IPB
Create and transmit Inquiry Response Trading
Block
Consumer If Payment Scheme Data present
| Continue Process(PS2) -> IPB
| Continue Process Response(CS=End) <- IPB
Change Process State(State) -> IPB
Change Process State Response(State) <- IPB
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Figure 6. Remote Process State Inquiry
1. The Consumer might initiate a payment inquiry once the payment
transaction has been opened by the IOTP Application Core, i.e., at any time after the initial submission of the IOTP Payment Request Block. The IOTP Application Core requests any additional specific payment scheme data from the IOTP Payment Bridge which has been fixed during brand selection (cf. Section 2.3) using the "Start Payment Inquiry" API request.
Erroneous API responses should be reported to the Consumer and valid alternatives (typically retry and cancellation) should be presented by the IOTP Application Core.
This request might perform the complete initialization, e.g., availability check of periphery or pass phrase supplement, and the IOTP Payment Bridge reports lack of capability quite similarly to the "Check Payment Possibility" request to the IOTP Application Core.
If the IOTP Payment Bridge requests wallet identifiers or pass phrases anywhere during the payment process, they should be requested by this API function, too. It is recommended that the IOTP Application Core store plain text pass phrases only in runtime memory.
The IOTP Application Core encapsulates any Payment Scheme Component in an IOTP Inquiry Request Block and submits the block to the Payment Handler.
2. The Payment Handler analyses the IOTP Inquire Request Block, maps
the Transaction Identifier to payment related attributes (brand,
consumer and payment identifiers), determines the appropriate IOTP
Payment Bridge, and forwards the request to the this IOTP Payment
Bridge ("Inquire Payment Status"). The IOTP Application Core
transforms the response to an IOTP Inquiry Response Block and
transmits it to the Consumer.
3. On receipt of the respective IOTP Inquiry Response Block the
Consumer's IOTP Application Core submits any encapsulated payment
scheme specific data to the IOTP Payment Bridge for verification
("Continue Process").
4. The IOTP Application Core passes the reported payment status
(except textual descriptions) to the IOTP Payment Bridge ("Change
Process State") for verification purposes and payment status
change. The IOTP Payment Bridge reports any inconsistencies as
well as the final payment status to the IOTP Application Core.
Any additional information that might be of interest to the Consumer has to be displayed by the IOTP Payment Bridge or Existing Payment Software on their own.
Abnormal Transaction Processing
Failures and Cancellations
The IOTP specification distinguishes between several classes of failures:
o Business and technical errors o Error depths of transport, message and block level o Transient errors, warnings, and hard errors.
Any IOTP Payment API has to deal with the receipt of failure notifications by and failure responses. This proposal has borrowed the basic mechanisms for error reporting between the IOTP Application Core and the IOTP Payment Bridge from the actual protocol: Business
errors are reported by Status Components within IOTP Response Blocks while technical errors are signaled by Error Components within IOTP Error Blocks.
Cancellations are mimicked as specific business errors which might be initiated by each trading party.
Preferring slim interfaces, this IOTP Payment API introduces one additional Error Code value for business error indication - errors can be raised on every API call. On receipt of this value, the IOTP Application Core has to infer further details by the issuance of the API function call "Inquire Process State".
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Any Party Issue some API request -> IPB
Error Response(Error Code) <- IPB
On "Business Error" response
| Inquire Process State() -> IPB
| Inquire P.S. Resp.(State, Receipt) <- IPB
Analyze local process state and try to resolve
with optional user interaction
If Process State Change needed
| Change Process State (State) -> IPB
| Change Process State Response(State) <- IPB
If counter party's notification required
| Create Error or Cancel Block (, add to next
| message, ) and transmit it to counter party
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Figure 7. Error Response from IPB
The specific Completion Codes "ConsCancelled", "MerchCancelled", and "PaymCancelled" - returned by "Inquire Process State" - determine that the IOTP Cancel Block has to be created instead of an IOTP Error Block.
The rules for determining the required behavior of the IOTP Application Core are given in the IOTP specification.
Note that any payment (intermediate) termination, i.e., failures, cancellations, and even successes are always reported to the IOTP Payment Bridge by the API function "Change Process State". This API function does both status changes and consistency checking / synchronization. Any suspicion of inconsistency should be reported by the IOTP Payment Bridge for display by the IOTP Application Core.
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Any Party Error Block or Cancel Block Received
If Change Process State required
| Change Process State (State) -> IPB
| Change Process State Response(State) <- IPB
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Figure 8. Error Notification from counter party
Not every failure might be visible at the IOTP layer, e.g., the processing of payment transactions might temporarily be hampered by intermediate failures at the payment scheme or protocol transport layer which might be resolved by the actual components.
However, final failures or cancellations have to be reported at the IOTP layer. E.g., communication time-outs and heavily faulty communication channels may disable the transaction.
Any system component may implement time-out recognition and use the aforementioned API mechanisms for the notification of process state changes. But, time-outs may happens while communicating with both the counter party and local system components, like chip card readers or IOTP Payment Bridges. Anyway, the Consumer's IOTP Application Core should notify the Consumer about the resolution alternatives, i.e., retry, suspension, and cancellation.
Resumption
Payment transaction resumption may apply at different steps of a payment transaction:
o The Consumer's and Payment Handler's view of the transaction might
not be synchronized: Due to different time-out values the payment transaction may not have been suspended by the counter party.
Any "Resume Payment ..." API function responds with an Error Code on non-suspended payment transaction that signals a business error. Afterwards the IOTP Application Core has to issue the "Inquire Process State" API call for further analysis of the process state.
o One IOTP message sent by one party might not be processed
successfully or even received by the counter party. This needs to be handled by the actual payment scheme. It is expected that the IOTP Application Core will not recognize anything.
o IOTP does not provide any specific signal for payment resumption.
On receipt of every IOTP Payment Exchange Block, the IOTP Application Core has to decide whether this Block belongs to a pending transaction or to a suspended transaction that should be resumed. The IOTP Application Core might call the "Inquire Process State" API function to update any lack of knowledge.
Any "Resume Payment" API function responds with an Error Code on non-suspended payment transaction that signals a business error. Similar, the "Continue Process" API function should report business errors on non-pending payment transactions.
o The payment transaction may not have been created at the Payment
Handler (early suspension and failed data transmission). In that case, the IOTP Application Core should respond with a business error that signals the repetition of the payment transaction (by the Consumer).
Any "Resume Payment", "Continue Process" or "Inquire Process State" API function should return with an Error Code "AttValIllegal" on non-existent payment transaction whereby the further Error Attribute "Names" denote the payment identifier.
o The IOTP Application Core should always request fresh payment
scheme specific data on resumption - for synchronization purposes with the Existing Payment Software. Old data in the cache that has not been sent to the counter party should not be accessed.
If the Consumer does not reconnect within an acceptable amount of time, the Payment Handler's system may perform local failure resolution in order to close the transaction and to retain resources for other transactions ("Change Process State"). If the Consumer reconnect afterwards, an IOTP Payment Response or IOTP Error Block could be generated.
IOTP Wallet Initialization
At startup or on explicit user request the IOTP Application Core should check its IOTP Payment Bridges' internal status by searching for pending payment transactions.
1. The IOTP Application Core interrogates the registered IOTP Payment
Bridges about pending payment transactions. The IOTP Application
Core may store indicators for pending transactions and use them
for driving any subsequent inquiry ("Inquire Pending Payment").
2. If one or more IOTP Payment Bridges report the presence of pending
transactions, the IOTP Application Core may try to suspend
("Change Process State") or resume (only Consumer: "Resume Payment
Consumer") the pending transactions (on user request).
The IOTP Payment Bridge may deny the processing of any new payment transactions until the pending transactions have been processed. Such denials are signaled by the error code "Business Error".
Payment Software Management
The IOTP Application Core provides only a simple and generic interface for the registration of new payment methods / instruments ("Manage Payment Software"). It receives the initial user request and defers the actual registration to the corresponding IOTP Payment Bridge.
The IOTP Application Core may also activate the Existing Payment Software for further payment instrument and wallet administration.
Mutuality
The Payment API is formalized using the eXtensible Markup Language (XML). It defines wrapper elements for both the input parameters and the API function's response. In particular, the response wrapper provides common locations for Error Codes and Error Descriptions.
It is anticipated that this description reflects the logical structure of the API parameter and might be used to derive implementation language specific API definitions.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT IotpPaymentApiRequest (
FindAcceptedPaymentBrand | FindAcceptedPaymentProtocol | GetPaymentInitializationData | FindPaymentInstrument | CheckPaymentPossiblity | StartPaymentConsumer | StartPaymentPaymentHandler | ResumePaymentConsumer | ResumePaymentPaymentHandler | ContinueProcess | InquireProcessState | ChangeProcessState | InquireAuthChallenge | Authenticate |
CheckAuthResponse | CheckPaymentReceipt | ExpandPaymentReceipt | RemovePaymentLog | PaymentInstrumentInquiry | InquirePendingPayment | ManagePaymentSoftware | StartPaymentInquiry | InquirePaymentStatus | CallBack )>
<!ATTLIST IotpPaymentApi
xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED
ContentSoftwareID CDATA #IMPLIED
xmlns CDATA #FIXED
"http://www.iotp.org/2000/08/PaymentAPI" >
<!ELEMENT IotpPaymentApiResponse (ErrorResponse?, (
FindAcceptedPaymentBrandResponse | FindAcceptedPaymentProtocolResponse | GetPaymentInitializationDataResponse | FindPaymentInstrumentResponse | CheckPaymentPossiblityResponse | StartPaymentConsumerResponse | StartPaymentPaymentHandlerResponse | ResumePaymentConsumerResponse | ResumePaymentPaymentHandlerResponse | ContinueProcessResponse | InquireProcessStateResponse | ChangeProcessStateResponse | InquireAuthChallengeResponse | AuthenticateResponse | CheckAuthResponseResponse | CheckPaymentReceiptResponse | ExpandPaymentReceiptResponse | RemovePaymentLogResponse | PaymentInstrumentInquiryResponse | InquirePendingPaymentResponse | ManagePaymentSoftwareResponse | StartPaymentInquiryResponse | InquirePaymentStatusResponse | CallBackResponse )?)>
<!ATTLIST IotpPaymentApiResponse
xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED
ContentSoftwareID CDATA #IMPLIED
xmlns CDATA #FIXED
"http://www.iotp.org/2000/08/PaymentAPI" >
<!ELEMENT ErrorResponse (ErrorLocation+,PaySchemePackagedContent*) > <!ATTLIST ErrorResponse
xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED
ErrorCode NMTOKEN #REQUIRED
ErrorDesc CDATA #REQUIRED
Severity(Warning |
TransientError |
HardError) #REQUIRED
MinRetrySecs CDATA #IMPLIED
SwVendorErrorRef CDATA #IMPLIED >
Most of the attribute items are intended for immediate insertion in the IOTP Error Block. The attribute values of the Error Location elements attribute have to enriched and transformed into Error Location Elements of the Error Component (cf. IOTP Specification).
Attributes (cf. IOTP Specification):
xml:lang Defines the language used by attributes or
child elements within this component, unless
overridden by an xml:lang attribute on a child
element.
ContentSoftwareId Contains information which identifies the
software that generated the content of the
element. Its purpose is to help resolve
interoperability problems that might occur as
a result of incompatibilities between messages
produced by different software. It is a single
text string in the language defined by
"xml:lang". It must contain, as a minimum
problems that might occur as a result of
o the name of the software manufacturer,
o the name of the software,
o the version of the software, and
o the build of the software.
ErrorCode Contains an error code which indicates the
nature of the error in the message in error.
Valid values for the Error Code are given in
the following section. This mnemonic enables
the automatic failure resolution of the IOTP
Application Core which analyzes the error code
value in order to determine the continuation
alternatives.
ErrorDesc Contains a description of the error in the
language defined by xml:lang. The content of
this attribute is defined by the
vendor/developer of the software that
generated the Error Response Element.
It is intended for user display and provides
detailed explanations about the failure and
its (out-of-band) resolution alternatives.
Severity Indicates the severity of the error. Valid
values are:
o Warning. This indicates that although there
is a message in error the IOTP Transaction
can still continue.
o TransientError. This indicates that the
error in the message in error may be
recovered if the message in error that is
referred to by the "Names" attribute is
resent.
o HardError. This indicates that there is an
unrecoverable error in the message in error
and the IOTP Transaction must stop.
MinRetrySecs This attribute should be present if "Severity"
is set to "TransientError". It is the minimum
number of whole seconds which the IOTP aware
application which received the message
reporting the error should wait before
resending the message in error identified by
the "ErrorLocation" attribute.
If Severity is not set to
"TransientError" then the value of this
attribute is ignored.
SwVendorErrorRef This attribute is a reference whose value is
set by the vendor/developer of the software
that generated the Error Element. It should
contain data that enables the vendor to
identify the precise location in their
software and the set of circumstances that
caused the software to generate a message
reporting the error.
Content:
ErrorLocation This identifies, where possible, the
element and attribute in the message
in error that caused the Error
Element to be generated. If the
"Severity" of the error is not
"TransientError", more that one
"ErrorLocation" may be specified as
appropriate depending on the nature
of the error and at the discretion of
the vendor/developer of the IOTP
Payment Bridge.
Its definition coincides with the
IOTP specification whereby the
attributes "IotpMsgRef", "BlkRef" and
"CompRef" are left blank,
intentionally.
PaySchemePackagedContent cf. Table 5
Error Codes
The following table lists the valid values for the ErrorCode attribute of the Error Response Element. The first sentence of the error description contains the default text that can be used to describe the error when displayed or otherwise reported. Individual implementations may translate this into alternative languages at their discretion. However, not every error code may apply to every API call. An Error Code must not be more than 14 characters long. The Error Codes have been taken from the IOTP Specification and extended by some additional codes which are highlighted by a preceding asterisk.
Generally, if the corrupt values have been user supplied, the IOTP Application Core might prompt for their correction. If the renewal fails or if the IOTP Application Core skips any renewals and some notification has to be send to the counter-party, the error code is encapsulated within an IOTP Error Block.
However, the IOTP server application reports business errors - visible at the IOTP layer - in the Status Component of the respective Response Block.
The IOTP Application Core may add the attributes (and values) within the ErrorLocation elements that are omitted by the IOTP Payment Bridge.
The following table mentions any modification from this general processing for particular error values. Furthermore, it contains hints for developers of IOTP Application Core software components about the processing of error codes. Conversely, developers of IOTP Payment Bridges get impressions about the expected behavior of the IOTP Application Core.
The IOTP Payment API assumes that the IOTP Application Core implements the dialog boxes needed for error resolution. But it does not assume, that the IOTP Payment Bridge actually relies on them. Instead, the IOTP Payment Bridge may try resolution on its own, may implement specific dialog boxes, and may signal only final failures.
Note: This abstract document assumes that the API parameters are exchanged XML encoded. Therefore, several error values might disappear in lower level language specific derivations.
Error Value Error Description
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Reserved Reserved. This error is reserved by the
vendor/developer of the software. Contact
the vendor/developer of the software for
more information (see the SoftwareId
attribute of the Message Id element in the
Transaction Reference Block [IOTP]).
XmlNotWellFrmd XML not well formed. The XML document is not
well formed. See [XML] for the meaning of
"well formed".
XmlNotValid XML not valid. The XML document is well
formed but the document is not valid. See
[XML] for the meaning of "valid".
Specifically:
o the XML document does not comply with the
constraints defined in the IOTP document
type declaration, and
o the XML document does not comply with the
constraints defined in the document type
declaration of any additional [XML-NS]
that are declared.
The Names attribute might refer some
attributes and elements of the input
parameter list.
(*)ElNotValid Element not valid. Invalid element in terms
of prescribed syntactical characteristics.
The ElementRef attributes of ErrorLocation
elements might refer to the corresponding
elements (if they have ID attributes).
The IOTP Application Core has to replace the
error code with "XmlNotValid" before
transmission to the counterparty.
ElUnexpected Unexpected element. Although the XML
document is well formed and valid, an
element is present that is not expected in
the particular context according to the
rules and constraints contained in this
specification.
The ElementRef attributes of ErrorLocation
elements might refer to the corresponding
elements (if they have ID attributes).
ElNotSupp Element not supported. Although the document
is well formed and valid, an element is
present that
o is consistent with the rules and
constraints contained in this
specification, but
o is not supported by the IOTP Aware
Application which is processing the IOTP
Message.
The ElementRef attributes of ErrorLocation
elements might refer to the corresponding
elements (if they have ID attributes).
ElMissing Element missing. Although the document is
well formed and valid, an element is missing
that should have been present if the rules
and constraints contained in this
specification are followed.
The ElementRef attributes of ErrorLocation
elements might refer to the corresponding
elements (if they have ID attributes).
ElContIllegal Element content illegal. Although the
document is well formed and valid, the
element contains values which do not conform
the rules and constraints contained in this
specification.
The ElementRef attributes of ErrorLocation
elements might refer to the corresponding
element (if they have ID attributes).
The IOTP Application Core has to replace the
Error Code with "ElNotSupp" before
transmission to the counter party, if the
ErrorLocation elements refer to
non-PackagedContent element.
EncapProtErr Encapsulated protocol error. Although the
document is well formed and valid, the
Packaged Content of an element contains data
from an encapsulated protocol which contains
errors.
The ElementRef attributes of ErrorLocation
elements might refer to the corresponding
element (if they have ID attributes).
AttUnexpected Unexpected attribute. Although the XML
document is well formed and valid, the
presence of the attribute is not expected in
the particular context according to the
rules and constraints contained in this
specification.
The AttName attributes of ErrorLocation
elements might refer to the corresponding
attribute tags.
(*)AttNotValid Attribute not valid. Invalid attribute value
in terms of prescribed syntactical
characteristics.
The AttName attributes of ErrorLocation
elements might refer to the corresponding
attribute tags.
The IOTP Application Core has to replace the
error code with "XmlNotValid" before
transmission to the counter party.
AttNotSupp Attribute not supported. Although the XML
document is well formed and valid, and the
presence of the attribute in an element is
consistent with the rules and constraints
contained in this specification, it is not
supported by the IOTP Aware Application
which is processing the IOTP Message.
AttMissing Attribute missing. Although the document is
well formed and valid, an attribute is
missing that should have been present if the
rules and constraints contained in this
specification are followed.
The AttName attributes of ErrorLocation
elements might refer to the corresponding
attribute tags.
If the attribute is required by the IOTP
Document Type Declaration (#REQUIRED) the
hints for non-valid attributes should be
adopted, otherwise these for illegal
attribute values.
AttValIllegal Attribute value illegal. The attribute
contains a value which does not conform to
the rules and constraints contained in this
specification.
The AttName attributes of ErrorLocation
elements might refer to the corresponding
attribute tags - valid values are:
BrandId: illegal/unknown Brand Identifier -
If the brand is not recognized/known by any
IOTP Payment Bridge, the IOTP Application
Core may offer the registration of a new
Payment Instrument.
PaymentInstrumentId: illegal/unknown
Payment Instrument Identifier - This
indicates a serious communication problem if
the attribute value has been reported by the
same "wallet" on a previous inquiry
requests. The IOTP Application Core has to
replace the error code with
"UnknownError" before transmission to the
counter party.
WalletId: illegal/unknown Wallet Identifier
- It is assumed that the wallet identifier
is checked before the pass phrase. On
invalid wallet identifiers, the IOTP
Application Core may open the dialog in
order to request the correct wallet
identifier. In addition, any pass phrase may
be supplied by the user. The dialog should
indicate the respective payment brand(s).
The IOTP Application Core has to replace the
error code with "UnknownError" before
transmission to the counter party.
Passphrase: illegal/unknown Pass Phrase -
The IOTP Application Core may open the
dialog in order to request the correct pass
phrase. If the pass phrase is wallet
identifier specific the dialog should
display the wallet identifier. The IOTP
Application Core has to replace the error
code with "TransportError" before
transmission to the counter party.
Action: illegal / unknown / unsupported
Action
PropertyTypeList: lists contains illegal /
unknown / unsupported Property Types - The
IOTP Application Core tries only the local
resolution but does never transmit any IOTP
Error Block to the counter party.
CurrCode: illegal/unknown/unsupported
Currency Code
CurrCodeType: illegal/unknown/unsupported
Currency Code Type
Amount: illegal/unknown/unsupported Payment
Amount
PayDirection: illegal/unknown/unsupported
Payment Direction
ProtocolId: illegal/unknown/unsupported
Protocol Identifier
OkFrom: illegal/unknown/unsupported OkFrom
Timestamp
OkTo: illegal/unknown/unsupported OkTo
Timestamp
ConsumerPayId: illegal/unknown Consumer
Payment Identifier
PaymentHandlerPayId: illegal/unknown Payment
Handler Payment Identifier
PayId: illegal/unknown Payment Identifier
AttValNotRecog Attribute Value Not Recognized. The
attribute contains a value which the IOTP
Aware Application generating the message
reporting the error could not recognize.
The AttName attributes of ErrorLocation
elements might refer to the corresponding
attribute tags.
MsgTooLarge Message too large. The message is too large
to be processed by the IOTP Payment Bridge
(or IOTP Application Core).
ElTooLarge Element too large. The element is too large
to be processed by the IOTP Payment Bridge
(or IOTP Application Core).
The ElementRef attributes of ErrorLocation
elements might refer to the corresponding
elements.
ValueTooSmall Value too small or early. The value of all
or part of an element content or an
attribute, although valid, is too small.
The ErrorLocation elements might refer to
the corresponding attribute tags or
elements.
ValueTooLarge Value too large or in the future. The value
of all or part of an element content or an
attribute, although valid, is too large.
The ErrorLocation elements might refer to
the corresponding attribute tags or
elements.
ElInconsistent Element Inconsistent. Although the document
is well formed and valid, according to the
rules and constraints contained in this
specification:
o the content of an element is inconsistent
with the content of other elements or
their attributes, or
o the value of an attribute is inconsistent
with the value of one or more other
attributes.
The Error Description may contain further
explanations.
The ErrorLocation elements might refer to
the corresponding attribute tags or elements
that are inconsistent.
TransportError Transport Error. This error code is used to
indicate that there is a problem with the
transport mechanism that is preventing the
message from being received. It is typically
associated with a "Transient Error".
The connection to some periphery or the
counter party could not be established,
is erroneous, or has been lost.
The Error Description may contain further
narrative explanations, e.g., "chip card
does not respond", "remote account manager
unreachable", "Internet connection to xyz
lost", "no Internet connection available",
"no modem connected", or "serial port to
modem used by another application". This
text should be shown to the end user. If
timeout has occurred at the Consumer this
text should be shown and the Consumer may
decide how to proceed - alternatives are
retry, payment transaction suspension, and
cancellation.
MsgBeingProc Message Being Processed. This error code is
only used with a Severity of Transient
Error. It indicates that the previous
message, which may be an exchange message or
a request message, is being processed and,
if no response is received by the time
indicated by the "MinRetrySecs" attribute,
then the original message should be resent.
SystemBusy System Busy. This error code is only used
with a Severity of Transient Error. It
indicates that the IOTP Payment Bridge or
Existing Payment Software that received the
API request is currently too busy to handle
it. If no response is received by the time
indicated by the "MinRetrySecs" attribute,
then the original message should be resent.
The Error Description may provide further
explanations, e.g., "wallet / chip card
reader is unavailable or locked by another
payment transaction", "payment gateway is
overloaded", "unknown chip card reader", or
"unrecognized chip card inserted, change
chip card".
The Consumer's IOTP Application Core may
display the error description and ask the
Consumer about the continuation -
alternatives are retry, payment transaction
suspension, and cancellation.
UnknownError Unknown Error. Indicates that the
transaction cannot complete for some reason
that is not covered explicitly by any of the
other errors. The Error description
attribute should be used to indicate the
nature of the problem.
The ErrorLocation elements might refer to
the corresponding attribute tags or elements
that are inconsistent.
(*)SyntaxError Syntax Error. An (unknown) syntax error has
occurred.
The ErrorLocation elements might refer to
the corresponding attribute tags or elements
that are inconsistent.
The IOTP Application Core has to replace the
error code with "XmlNotValid" or
"UnknownError" before transmission to the
counter party.
(*)ReqRefused Request refused. The API request is
(currently) refused by the IOTP Payment
Bridge. The error description may provide
further explanations, e.g., "wallet / chip
card reader is unavailable or locked by
another payment transaction", "payment
gateway is overloaded", "unknown chip card
reader", or "unrecognized chip card
inserted, change chip card".
The Consumer's IOTP Application Core may
display the error description and ask the
Consumer about the continuation -
alternatives are retry, payment transaction
suspension, and cancellation. Denials due to
invalid Process States should be signaled by
"BusinessError". Typically, this kind of
error is not passed to the counter party's
IOTP Application Core. Otherwise, it maps to
"TransportError" or "UnknownError".
(*)ReqNotSupp Request not supported. The API
function(ality) has not been implemented in
the IOTP Payment Bridge. Typically, this
kind of error is not passed to the
counter party's IOTP Application Core.
Otherwise, it maps to "TransportError" or
"UnknownError".
(*)BusError Business Error. The API request has been
rejected because some payment transaction
has an illegal payment status.
Particularly, this error code is used to
signal any raise of payment business layered
failures.
The ErrorLocation elements may refer to
payment transactions using the party's
Payment Identifier - it defaults to the
current transaction or might contain the
current payment transaction party's Payment
Identifier - identified by the ElementRef
attribute while the AttName attribute is
fixed with "PayId".
The IOTP Application Core must inquire the
IOTP Payment Bridge about the actual Process
State which actually encodes the business
error ("Inquire Process State").
This error code must not be
passed to the counter party's IOTP
Application Core.
Table 2: Common Error Codes
The IOTP Payment Bridge may also use the error description in order to notify the Consumer about further necessary steps for failure resolution, e.g., "Sorry, your payment transaction failed. Unfortunately, you have been charged, please contact your issuer."
Attributes and Elements
The following table explains the XML attributes in alphabetical order - any parenthesized number after the attribute tag is a recommended maximal length of the attribute value in characters:
Attribute Description
-----------
Amount (11) Indicates the payment amount to be paid in AmountFrom(11) whole and fractional units of the currency. AmountTo (11) For example $245.35 would be expressed
"245.35". Note that values smaller than the
smallest denomination are allowed. For
example one tenth of a cent would be
"0.001".
AuthenticationId An identifier specified by the
authenticator which, if returned by the
organization that receives the
authentication request, will enable the
authenticator to identify which
authentication is being referred to.
BrandId (128) This contains a unique identifier for the
brand (or promotional brand). It is used to
match against a list of Payment Instruments
which the Consumer holds to determine
whether or not the Consumer can pay with the
Brand.
Values of BrandId are managed under
procedure being described in the IOTP
protocol specification.
BrandLogoNetLocn The net location which can be used to
download the logo for the organization (cf.
IOTP Specification).
The content of this attribute must conform
to [URL].
BrandName This contains the name of the brand, for
example "MasterCard Credit". This is the
description of the Brand which is displayed
to the consumer in the Consumer's language
defined by "xml:lang". For example it might
be "American Airlines Advantage Visa". Note
that this attribute is not used for matching
against the payment instruments held by the
Consumer.
BrandNarrative This optional attribute is
used by the Merchant to indicate some
special conditions or benefit which would
apply if the Consumer selected that brand.
For example "5% discount", "free shipping
and handling", "free breakage insurance for
1 year", "double air miles apply", etc.
CallBackFunction A function which is called whenever there is
a change of Process State or payment
progress, e.g., for display updates. However,
the IOTP Payment Bridge may use its own
mechanisms and dialog boxes.
CallBackLanguageList
A list of language codes which contain, in
order of preference, the languages in which
the text passed to the Call Back function
will be encoded.
CompletionCode (14) Indicates how the process completed.
It is required if ProcessState is set to
"Failed" otherwise it is ignored. Valid
values as well as recovery options are given
in the IOTP specification.
The IOTP Payment Bridge may also use the
Status Description to notify the Consumer
about further necessary steps in order to
resolve some kind of business failures,
e.g.,
o "sorry, your payment transaction failed.
Unfortunately, you have been charged,
please contact your issuer."
o "insufficient capacity left (on your
stored value card) for refund",
o "payment failed/chip card error/internal
error, please contact your payment
instrument's issuer"
ConsumerDesc A narrative description of the Consumer.
ConsumerPayId (14) An unique identifier specified by the
Consumer that, if returned by the Payment
Handler in another Payment Scheme Component
or by other means, enables the Consumer to
identify which payment is being referred to.
This unique identifier is generated by the
IOTP Application Core and submitted to the
IOTP Payment Bridge on every API call. It
may equal the Payment Handler Payment
Identifiers but need not necessarily be so.
The uniqueness extends to multiple payment
instruments, payment brands, payment
protocols, wallet identifiers, and even
multiple IOTP Payment Bridges.
ContStatus During payment progress, this status value
indicates whether the payment needs to be
continued with further IOTP Payment Scheme
Component exchanges with the remote party.
"End" indicates that the reported payment
scheme data is the last data to be exchanged
with the counter party.
ContentSoftwareId This contains information that identifies
the software that generated the content of
the element. Its purpose is to help resolve
interoperability problems that might occur
as a result of incompatibilities between
messages produced by different software. It
is a single text string in the language
defined by xml:lang. It must contain, as a
minimum:
o the name of the software manufacturer,
o the name of the software,
o the version of the software, and
o the build of the software.
CurrCodeType (14) Indicates the domain of the CurrCode. This
attribute is included so that the currency
code may support nonstandard currencies
such as frequent flyer point, trading
stamps, etc. Its values may be
o ISO-4217-A, the default, indicates the
currency code is the three-letter
alphabetic code that conform to ISO-4217
[ISO4217].
o IOTP indicates that the values of
CurrCode are managed under the procedure
described in [IOTP].
CurrCode (14) A code which identifies the currency to be
used in the payment. The domain of valid
currency codes is defined by "CurrCodeType"
MerchantPayId (14) An private identifier specified by the
Merchant which will enable the Merchant to
identify which payment is being referred to.
It is a pure private item and is never sent
to any other party. It is provided by the
IOTP Payment Bridge on payment preparation
during brand compilation.
Cf. To "ConsumerPayId" for note about
uniqueness.
MerchantOrgId (64) A local item that might refer to some
specific shop in a multi shop environment.
This item is optional and might enrich the
Wallet Identifier which itself can be used
for the same purpose.
Name Distinguishes between multiple occurrences
of Packaged Content Elements at the same
point in IOTP. For example:
<ABCD>
<PackagedContent Name='FirstPiece'>
snroasdfnas934k
</PackagedContent>
<PackagedContent Name='SecondPiece'>
dvdsjnl5poidsdsflkjnw45
</PackagedContent>
</ABCD>
The "Name" attribute may be omitted, for
example if there is only one Packaged
Content element.
OkFrom (30) The date and time in UTC Format range OkTo (30) indicated by the merchant in which the
Payment Handler may accept the payment.
For more information, see [UTC].
Passphrase (32) Payment wallets may use pass phrase
protection for transaction data and payment
instruments' data. However, it is assumed
that there exists a public and customizable
payment instrument identifier such that
these identifiers together with their
relationship to payment brands, payment
protocols, payment directions, and currency
amounts can be queried by the IOTP
application without any pass phrase
knowledge.
PayDirection Indicates the direction in which the
payment for which a Brand is being selected
is to be made. Its values may be:
o Debit: The sender of the Payment Request
Block (e.g., the Consumer) to which this
Brand List relates will make the payment
to the Payment Handler, or
o Credit: The sender of the Payment Request
Block to which this Brand List relates
will receive a payment from the Payment
Handler.
PayId (14) This attribute is introduced for API
simplification:
o The Consumer has to identify PayId and
ConsumerPayId.
o The Merchant has to identify PayId and
MerchantPayId.
o The Payment Handler has to identify PayId
and Payment Handler Pay Id.
PayInstId This contains the unique identifier used
internally by the IOTP Payment
Bridge/Existing Payment Software.
PayInstName This contains the user-defined name of the
payment instrument. There exist no
(technical) constraints like uniqueness. The
"xml:lang" attribute denotes the language
encoding of its value.
PaymentHandlerDesc A narrative description of the Payment
Handler.
PaymentHandlerPayId An unique identifier specified by the
(14) Payment Handler that, if returned by the
Consumer in another Payment Scheme Component
or by other means, enables the Payment
Handler to identify which payment is being
referred to. It is required whenever it is
known.
Cf. To "ConsumerPayId" for note about
uniqueness.
PaymentInstrumentId An identifier for a specific payment
(32) instrument, e.g., "credit card", "Mondex card
for English Pounds". This identifier is
fully customizable. It is assumed, that it
does not contain confidential information or
even an indication of it. The payment
instrument identifier is unique within each
payment brand. It is displayed to the
Consumer during brand selection.
PayReceiptNameRefs Optionally contains element references to
(32) other elements (containing payment scheme
specific data) that together make up the
receipt. Note that each payment scheme
defines in its supplement the elements that
must be referenced
The IOTP Application Core should save all
the components referenced so that the
payment receipt can be reconstructed when
required.
PayReqNetLocn The Net Location indicating where an
unsecured Payment Request message should be
sent if this protocol choice is used.
The content of this attribute must conform
to [URL] and depends on the Transport
Mechanism.
PercentComplete (3) A number between 0 and 100 which indicates
the progress of the payment transaction. The
values range between 0 and 99 for pending
and suspended transactions.
ProcessState Contains a Process State Code that
indicates the current state of the process
being carried out. Valid values are:
o NotYetStarted. The Payment Request Block
has been received but processing of the
Payment Request has not yet started
o InProgress. The payment transaction is
pending. The processing of the (Payment)
Request Block has started but it is not
yet complete.
o (*)Suspended: The payment transaction has
been suspended and can be resumed.
This process state is mapped to
"InProgress", if it is passed to the
counter party's IOTP Application Core.
o CompletedOk. The processing of the (Payment)
Request Block and any following Payment
Exchange Blocks has completed successfully.
o Failed. The payment processing has finally
failed for a Business Error.
o ProcessError. This value is only used
when the Status Component is being used in
connection with an Inquiry Request Trading
Block. It indicates there was a Technical
Error in the Request Block which is being
processed or some internal processing
error. Each party's IOTP Payment Bridge
uses this value in order to notify the
IOTP Application Core about the presence
of technical errors.
PropertyType (14) The property type defines codes used for
interrogation of specific properties about a
payment instrument. They are unique for each
payment brand. The predefined property "all"
is used on general inquiries. However, these
property types are not used during normal
payment processing. E.g., they may apply to
payment brand specific transactions or
out-of-band failure resolution.
PropertyDesc The property description carries the
respective human readable property (value)'s
description.
PropertyValue The actual property value intends automatic
post processing.
ProtocolBrandId (64)This is an identifier to be used with a
particular payment protocol. For example,
SET and EMV have their own well defined, yet
different, values for the Brand identifier
to be used with each protocol. The valid values
of this attribute are defined in the
supplement for the payment protocol
identified by "ProtocolId" that describes
how the payment protocol works with IOTP.
Identifier maps to at most one Protocol
Brand Identifier.
ProtocolId (64) An identifier for a specific payment
protocol and version, e.g., "SETv1.0",
"ecash". Valid values are defined by
supplements to the IOTP specification and
they are unique within each payment brand.
ProtocolIds A sequence of Protocol Identifiers
ProtocolName A narrative description of the payment
protocol and its version in the language
identified by "xml:lang". For example
"Secure Electronic Transaction Version 1.0".
Its purpose is to help provide information
on the payment protocol being used if
problems arise.
SecPayReqNetLocn The Net Location indicating where a secured
Payment Request message should be sent if
this protocol choice is used.
A secured payment involves the use of a
secure channel such as [TLS] in order
to communicate with the Payment Handler.
The content of this attribute must conform
to [URL].
ReceiverOrgId The Organization Identification which
receives the payment bridge processing
Trading Role Data PackagedContent.
StatusDesc (256) An optional textual description of the
current process state in the language
identified by "xml:lang" that should be
displayed to the Consumer. The usage of this
attribute is defined in the payment
supplement for the payment method being
used. Particularly, it provides hints for
out-of-band failure resolution. Its length
is limited to 256 characters.
StyleSheetNetLocn This contains the net location to a style
sheet with visualisation rules for XML
encoded data.
TimeStamp (30) The date and time in UTC Format when the
payment transaction has been started.
For more information on UTC, see [UTC].
WalletId (32) Many existing payment wallet software are
multiple wallet capable. The Wallet
Identifier selects the actual wallet. It is
assumed, that the wallet identifier is a
public item, that might be stored by the
IOTP Application Core.
xml:lang Defines the language used by the Process
State Description attribute (cf. IOTP
Specification)
Table 3: Attributes
The following table explains the XML elements in alphabetical order:
Element Description
-----------
Algorithm This contains information which describes
an Algorithm that may be used to generate
the Authentication response.
The algorithm that may be used is
identified by the Name attribute (cf. IOTP
Specification).
AuthReqPackagedContent The Authentication Request Packaged
Content originates from a Authentication
(Data/Response) Component's content
whereby the outermost element tags are
prefixed with "AuthReq". Its declaration
coincides with the Packaged Content's
declaration (cf. IOTP Specification). It
encapsulates the authentication challenge
value. The content of this information is
defined in the supplement for a payment
protocol.
AuthResPackagedContent The Authentication Response Packaged
Content originates from a Authentication
Response Component's content whereby the
outermost element tags are prefixed with
"AuthRes".
Its declaration coincides with the
Packaged Content's declaration (cf. IOTP
Specification). It encapsulates the
authentication response value. The
content of this information is defined in
the supplement for a payment protocol.
BrandPackagedContent Container for further payment brand
description. Its content originates from
a Brand Element content whose outermost
element tags are prefixed with "Brand".
Its declaration coincides with the
Packaged Content's declaration (cf. IOTP
Specification).
BrandSelBrandInfoPackagedContent
This contains any additional data that
may be required by a particular payment
brand. It forms the content of the Brand
Selection Brand Info Element.
BrandSelProtocolAmountInfoPackagedContent
This contains any additional data that
may be required by a particular payment
brand in the format. It forms the content
of the Brand Selection Protocol Amount
Info Element.
BrandSelCurrencyAmountInfoPackagedContent
This contains any additional data that is
payment brand and currency specific in
the format. It forms the content of the
Brand Selection Currency Amount Info
Element.
MerchantData Any merchant related data that might be
used by the IOTP Payment Bridge for
different purposes, e.g., it might
contain IDs to access some mall data,
but not cryptographic keys. Its Packaged
declaration coincides with the Content's
declaration (cf. IOTP Specification).
PackagedContent Generic Container for non-IOTP data (cf.
IOTP Specification).
PayProtocolPackagedContent
The Pay Protocol Packaged Content
originates from a Pay Protocol
Element's content whereby the outermost
element tags are prefixed with
"PayProtocol". It contains information
about the protocol which is used by
the payment protocol. The content of
this information is defined in the
supplement for a payment protocol. Its
declaration coincides with the Packaged
Content's declaration (cf. IOTP
Specification).
PaySchemePackagedContent
The PayScheme Packaged Content originates
from a Payment Scheme Component's content
whereby the outermost element tags are
prefixed with "PayScheme". Its
declaration coincides with the Packaged
Content's declaration (cf. IOTP
Specification). It carries the payment
specific data. The content of this
information is defined in the supplement
for a payment protocol.
ProtocolAmountPackagedContent
The Protocol Amount Packaged Content
originates from a Protocol Amount
Element's content whereby the outermost
element tags are prefixed with "Amount".
Its declaration coincides with the
Packaged Content's declaration (cf. IOTP
Specification). It contains information
about the protocol which is used by the
payment protocol. The content of this
information is defined in the supplement
for a payment protocol.
ProtocolBrandPackagedContent
The Protocol Brand Packaged Content
originates from a Protocol Brand
Element's content whereby the outermost
element tags are prefixed with
"ProtocolBrand". Its declaration
coincides with the Packaged Content's
declaration (cf. IOTP Specification). It
contains information about the brand
which might be used by the payment
protocol. The content of this information
is defined in the supplement for a
payment protocol.
ResponsePackagedContent
Container for authentication response
data. Its content originates from a
Authentication Response Component's
Packaged Content whose outermost element
tags are prefixed with "Response". Its
declaration coincides with the Packaged
Content's declaration (cf. IOTP
Specification).
TradingRoleDataPackagedContent
The TradingRoleData Packaged Content
originates from a TradingRoleData
Component's content whereby the outermost
element tags are prefixed with
"TradingRoleData". Its declaration
coincides with the Packaged Content's
declaration (cf. IOTP Specification). It
contains information from Merchant to
Payment Handler via Consumer about the
protocol which is used by the payment.
The content of this information is
defined in the supplement for a payment
protocol. The Name attribute in this
packaged contents must include prefix as
"Payment:" to indicate that the payment
bridge processes this, for example
"Payment:SET-OD". See [SET/IOTP] for
more information.
The element's declaration coincides with
the Packaged Content's declaration (cf.
IOTP Specification).
Table 4: Elements
XML definition:
<!ENTITY % AuthReqPackagedContent "PackagedContent"> <!ENTITY % AuthResPackagedContent "PackagedContent">
<!ENTITY % BrandPackagedContent "PackagedContent"> <!ENTITY % BrandSelInfoPackagedContent "PackagedContent"> <!ENTITY % BrandSelProtocolAmountPackagedContent
"PackagedContent">
<!ENTITY % BrandSelCurrencyAmountPackagedContent
"PackagedContent">
<!ENTITY % ProtocolAmountPackagedContent
"PackagedContent">
<!ENTITY % PayProtocolPackagedContent "PackagedContent"> <!ENTITY % TradingRoleDataPackagedContent "PackagedContent"> <!ENTITY % MerchantData "PackagedContent"> <!ENTITY % PaySchemePackagedContent "PackagedContent">
Process States
The IOTP Payment API supports six different attribute values that encode the transaction status from the IOTP's point of view, i.e., the appropriate point of view at the interface between the IOTP Application Core and IOTP Payment Bridge. This point of view does not completely mimic the more detailed view on the actual payment by the actual Existing Payment Software or IOTP Payment Bridge.
The following three tables distinguish between the Merchant's, Consumer's, and Payment Handlers' environment. They extend the aforementioned explanations towards the mapping between IOTP process states and the internal payment scheme related states of the Existing Payment Software/IOTP Payment Bridge.
Merchant
The Merchant's point of view of payment is limited to the local payment initiation being interlaced with order processing because IOTP assigns the actual payment processing to the Payment Handler.
ProcessState Description
-----------
NotYetStarted The Payment Transaction exists within the
IOTP Application Core, i.e., the
Merchant's shop has already signaled to
the IOTP Application Core that an IOTP
transaction has been initiated by the
Consumer.
However, neither any API call has been
issued to the IOTP Payment Bridge nor has
the IOTP Order Request has been created.
InProgress The IOTP Application changes the process
state to this value when it issues the
first API call to the Payment Bridge
during Brand List compilation.
This value indicates that the Payment
Bridge might have some knowledge about
the expected payment or might have
performed some preparatory tasks (even
with the Payment Handler out-of-band to
IOTP).
However, this value does not indicate
that any IOTP Order Request has been
created and transmitted to the Consumer.
Suspended The IOTP transaction has been suspended
before the order request block has been
transmitted to the Consumer.
Implicitly, the payment is also deferred.
CompletedOk The IOTP Order Request has been
successfully created and transmitted to
the Consumer. Actually, this process
state indicates only that the order
processing has been finished.
But it contains no indication about the
status of the actual payment, which is
accepted by the Payment Handler.
However, successful order processing
signals the IOTP Application Core that a
payment with some specific parameters is
expected within the near future. And this
signal might be used by the Existing
Payment Software for similar purposes.
This attribute might be interpreted as
successful preparation of the payment
system.
Particularly, it is expected that the
Existing Payment Software maps this IOTP
status value to some other internal
value, e.g., "NotYetStarted", that is more
accurate from its point of view.
As IOTP provides no communication channel
between the Merchant and Payment Handler,
any change of payment process state will
be initiated out-of-band to IOTP, e.g., by
electronic statements of account or
payment scheme specific mechanisms.
Failed The IOTP transaction, i.e., order
processing, has failed for some
(business) reason and it is known that no
payment will occur.
This indication might be used to clear
all data about this transaction within
the Existing Payment Bridge (by
"RemovePaymentLog" or
"ChangeProcessState") or to reverse any
preparation (with the Payment Handler
out-of-band to IOTP).
However, the ideal point of view of IOTP
suspects that the actual payment
transaction has been neither started nor
initiated.
ProcessError The IOTP transaction, i.e., order
processing, has failed for some
(technical) reason and it is known that
no payment will occur.
This indication might be used to clear
all data about this transaction within
the Existing Payment Bridge (by
"RemovePaymentLog" or
"ChangeProcessState") or to reverse any
preparation (with the Payment Handler
out-of-band to IOTP).
However, the ideal point of view of IOTP
suspects that the actual payment
transaction has been neither started nor
initiated.
Table 5: Merchant
Consumer
The Consumer's IOTP Application Core restricts its point of view to the payment transaction. It is assumed that the IOTP Payment Bridge handles the preceding brand selection process in a stateless manner.
ProcessState Description
-----------
NotYetStarted This encodes the initial process state of
any IOTP payment transaction. This value
is set during brand selection but it
normally will not change during the whole brand
selection process.
InProgress With the issuance of the Start Payment
Consumer API call, the IOTP Application
Core changes the process state to this
value.
Suspended The payment transaction has been
suspended. Suspension may occur anywhere
during brand selection (with the
Merchant) or payment processing (with the
Payment Handler). On resumption, the IOTP
Application Core and the IOTP Payment
Bridge have to use other internal data to
decide whether brand selection or actual
payment processing needs to be continued,
i.e., whether the process state needs to
be reset to "NotYetStarted" or
"InProgress".
Note that the Payment API assumes
stateless brand selection by the IOTP
Payment Bridge. Typically, any suspension
during brand selection requires the
repetition of the whole process. Hereby,
the IOTP Application Core might need to
consider any already negotiated
conditions in a brand depended purchase
(brand, protocol).
CompletedOk The successful payment has been
acknowledged by the Payment Handler, i.e.,
the successful IOTP Payment Response has
been received.
Implicitly, this implies successful order
processing.
Failed The IOTP transaction, i.e., order or
payment processing, has failed for some
(business) reason. In either case it is
known that the payment will not succeed.
ProcessError The IOTP transaction, i.e., order or
payment processing, has failed for some
(technical) reason.
However, the local process state might be
different from that of Payment Handler.
Table 6: Consumer
Payment Handler
The Payment Handler is responsible for the actual payment processing. New payment transactions are reported by the Consumer with the transmission of new IOTP Payment Request Blocks. IOTP Payment Exchange Block are send by the Consumer for payment transaction continuation and resumption.
ProcessState Description
-----------
NotYetStarted This encodes the initial process state of
any payment transaction. Typically, this
value will last for a short amount of
time.
InProgress The IOTP Application Core changes the
process state changes to "InProgress"
when the Payment Handler starts with the
actual processing of the IOTP Payment
Request Block.
Note that this does not assume that the
"StartPaymentPaymentHandler" API function
has been called.
Suspended The payment transaction has been
suspended.
CompletedOk The payment has been processed,
successfully, i.e., the IOTP Payment
Response Block was created and
transmitted to the Consumer.
Failed The payment transaction, has finally
failed for some (business) reason.
Note that this value encodes the payment
state reported by the IOTP Payment Bridge
on "InquireProcessState". It neither
reflects whether the payment receipt has
been inquired nor whether the IOTP
Payment Response Block has been created
and submitted to the Consumer.
ProcessError The payment transaction, has finally
failed for some (technical) reason.
Note that this value encodes the payment
state reported by the IOTP Payment
Bridge. It does not reflect whether some
IOTP Error Block has been created and
submitted to the Consumer.
Table 7: Consumer
Payment API Calls
Brand Compilation Related API Calls
Find Accepted Payment Brand
This API function determines the payment brands being accepted by the Payment Handler on behalf of the Merchant.
Input Parameters
o Payment Direction - provided by the IOTP Application Core o Currency Code and Currency - provided by the IOTP Application
Core
o Payment Amount - provided by the IOTP Application Core o Merchant Payment Identifier - Merchant's unique private
reference to the payment transaction
o Merchant Organisation Identifier - used for distinction between
multiple merchants that share the some IOTP merchant system
o Wallet Identifier - managed by the IOTP Application Core o Merchant Data - specific data used by the IOTP Payment Bridge
which is managed in the IOTP Application Core.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT FindAcceptedPaymentBrand (MerchantData*) > <!ATTLIST FindAcceptedPaymentBrand
PayDirection (Debit|Credit) #REQUIRED CurrCodeType NMTOKEN 'ISO4217-A' CurrCode CDATA #REQUIRED Amount CDATA #REQUIRED MerchantPayId CDATA #REQUIRED MerchantOrgId CDATA #IMPLIED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Payment Brand Identifier - for insertion in the Brand List
Component's Brand Element
o Payment Brand Name and language annotation - for insertion in
the Brand List Component's Brand Element
o Payment Brand Logo Net Location - for insertion in the Brand
List Component's Brand Element
o Payment Brand Narrative Description - for insertion in the
Brand List Component's Brand Element
o (Brand) Packaged Content - further payment brand description
for insertion in the Brand List Component's Brand Element
The Existing Payment Software returns an empty list of brand items, if it does not support any payment brand/payment protocol combination for the given payment parameters.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT FindAcceptedPaymentBrandResponse (BrandItem*) > <!ELEMENT BrandItem (BrandPackagedContent*) > <!ATTLIST BrandItem
BrandId CDATA #REQUIRED xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED BrandName CDATA #REQUIRED BrandLogoNetLocn CDATA #REQUIRED BrandNarrative CDATA #IMPLIED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Find Accepted Payment Protocol
This API function determines the instances of payment protocols (and optionally the payment brands) being accepted by the Payment Handler on behalf of the Merchant. The function might be called in two variants:
o With the Brand Identifier set on the input parameter list: The
function responds with the payment protocols that fits to the submitted brand.
o Without any Brand Identifier - that allows the omission of the
"Find Accepted Payment Brand" API call (cf. Section 4.1.1): This function responds with both the supported brand identifiers and the payment protocols being specified by the Brand Elements.
Input Parameters
o Brand Identifier - returned by "Find Accepted Payment Brand" o Payment Direction o Currency Code and Currency o Payment Amount o Merchant Payment Identifier - Merchant's unique private
reference to the payment transaction
o Merchant Organisation Identifier - used for distinction between
multiple merchants that share the some IOTP merchant system
o Wallet Identifier - managed by the IOTP Application Core o (Brand) Packaged Content - further payment brand description;
returned by "Find Accepted Payment Brand"; this elements are only provided if the Brand Identifier is set
o Merchant Data - specific data used by the IOTP Payment Bridge
which is managed in the IOTP Application Core.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT FindAcceptedPaymentProtocol (BrandPackagedContent*,
MerchantData?) >
<!ATTLIST FindAcceptedPaymentProtocol
BrandId CDATA #IMPLIED PayDirection (Debit|Credit) #REQUIRED CurrCodeType NMTOKEN 'ISO4217-A' CurrCode CDATA #REQUIRED Amount CDATA #REQUIRED MerchantPayId CDATA #REQUIRED MerchantOrgId CDATA #IMPLIED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Payment Protocol Identifier - for insertion in the Brand List
Component's Pay Protocol Element
o Protocol Brand Identifier - for insertion in the Protocol Brand
Element of the Brand List Component's Brand Element
o Payment Protocol Name and language annotation- for insertion in
the Brand List Component's Pay Protocol Element
o Payment Request Net Location - for insertion in the Brand List
Component's Pay Protocol Element
o Secured Payment Request Net Location - for insertion in the
Brand List Component's Pay Protocol Element
o Brand Item List (cf. Section 4.1.1) - there must be at least
one element if no brand identifier has been provided on the input parameter list.
o (Protocol Amount) Packaged Content - for insertion in the Brand
List Component's Protocol Amount Element
o (Pay Protocol) Packaged Content - for insertion in the Brand
List Component's Pay Protocol Element
o Currency Amount element - quite similar to the definition in
[IOTP], that contain
- refined Currency Code and Currency - for insertion in the
Brand List Component's Currency Amount Element
- refined Payment Amount - for insertion in the Brand List
Component's Currency Amount Element
o Brand - there must be at least one element in each Protocol
Item if no brand identifier has been provided on the input parameter list.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT FindAcceptedPaymentProtocolResponse (ProtocolItem+,
BrandItem*) >
<!ELEMENT ProtocolItem (ProtocolAmountPackagedContent*,
PayProtocolPackagedContent* CurrencyAmount+, Brand*,ProtocolBrand*)>
<!ATTLIST ProtocolItem
ProtocolId CDATA #REQUIRED ProtocolBrandId CDATA #IMPLIED xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED ProtocolName CDATA #REQUIRED PayReqNetLocn CDATA #IMPLIED SecPayReqNetLocn CDATA #IMPLIED >
<!ELEMENT Brand EMPTY > <!ATTLIST Brand
BrandId CDATA #REQUIRED >
<!ELEMENT CurrencyAmount EMPTY > <!ATTLIST CurrencyAmount
CurrCodeType NMTOKEN 'ISO4217-A' CurrCode CDATA #IMPLIED Amount CDATA #IMPLIED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Get Payment Initialization Data
This API function provides the remaining initialization data being required by the Consumer's or Payment Handler's Existing Payment Software. This function might be called both for "brand dependent" and "brand independent" transaction types. In either case, this function is called with one particular brand.
Input Parameters
o Brand Identifier - returned by "Find Accepted Payment Brand" o Merchant Payment Identifier - Merchant's unique private
reference to the payment transaction
o Payment Direction o Currency Code and Currency - from the Brand List Component's
Currency Amount Element
o Payment Amount - from the Brand List Component's Currency
Amount Element
o Payment Protocol Identifier - from the Brand List Component's
Pay Protocol Element
o Protocol Brand Identifier - from the Protocol Brand Element
which relates to the selected Brand Element, if any
o (TradingRoleData) Receiver Organization Identifier o OkFrom, OkTo - identical to the entries of the Order Component
Merchant Payment Identifier
o Merchant Organisation Identifier - used for distinction between
multiple merchants that share the some IOTP merchant system
o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase
Protocol Brand Element
o (Brand) Packaged Content - further payment brand description,
from the Brand List Component's Brand Element
o (Protocol Amount) Packaged Content - further payment protocol
description, from the Brand List Component's Protocol Amount Element
o (Pay Protocol) Packaged Content - further payment protocol
description, from the Brand List Component's Pay Protocol Element
o (Protocol Brand) Packaged Content - further brand information,
from the Protocol Brand Element of the Brand List Component which relates to the selected Brand Element, if any
o (Order) Packaged Content - further order description, from the
Order Element
o three Brand Selection Info Packaged Content elements - copied
from the Brand Selection Component on brand dependent purchases
o Brand - additional data about the payment brand o Protocol Amount - additional data about the payment protocol o Currency Amount - additional payment brand and currency
specific data
o Merchant Data - specific data used by the IOTP Payment Bridge
which is managed in the IOTP Application Core.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT GetPaymentInitializationData (ProtocolBrand?
BrandPackagedContent* ProtocolAmountPackagedContent*, PayProtocolPackagedContent*, OrderPackagedContent*, BrandSelBrandInfoPackagedContent*, BrandSelProtocolAmountInfoPackagedContent*, BrandSelCurrencyAmountInfoPackagedContent*, MerchantData*) >
<!ATTLIST GetPaymentInitializationData
BrandId CDATA #REQUIRED MerchantPayId CDATA #REQUIRED PayDirection (Debit|Credit) #REQUIRED CurrCodeType NMTOKEN 'ISO4217-A' CurrCode CDATA #REQUIRED Amount CDATA #REQUIRED ProtocolId CDATA #REQUIRED OkFrom CDATA #REQUIRED OkTo CDATA #REQUIRED ReceiverOrgId CDATA #IMPLIED MerchantOrgId CDATA #IMPLIED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o OkFrom, OkTo - for insertion in the Payment Component o (TradingRoleData) Packaged Content - further payment protocol
description; the Name Attribute of the packaged Content element must include "Payment:" as the prefix, for example "Payment:SET-OD". For more information, see [SET/IOTP].
o (Order) Packaged Content - defaults to the supplied order
packaged content if omitted.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT GetPaymentInitializationDataResponse (OrderPackagedContent*, TradingRoleDataPackagedContent*) > <!ATTLIST GetPaymentInitializationDataResponse
OkFrom CDATA #IMPLIED OkTo CDATA #IMPLIED>
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Inquire Authentication Challenge
This API function inquires any payment protocol specific authentication challenge value from the IOTP Payment Bridge. In Baseline IOTP this API function is called by the Merchant (or Financial Institution). The IOTP Application Core may propose a choice of algorithms to the IOTP Payment Bridge. However, the IOTP Payment Bridge may ignore the proposal and select some other algorithm.
The inquiry is assumed to be stateless. E.g., the IOTP Application Core may check the returned algorithm and stop transaction processing without notifying the IOTP Payment Bridge.
The IOTP Application Core may issue several API calls to the IOTP Payment Bridge to build up the IOTP Authentication Request Block. Any subsequently submitted choice of algorithms should be constrained by the accepted algorithms from earlier API responses.
The IOTP Payment Bridge responds with the Business Error Code if it does not provide any (more) authentication algorithms and challenges.
Input Parameters
o Authentication Identifier - the authenticator may provide its
payment identifier, i.e., Payment Handler or Merchant Payment Identifier.
o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase o set of pre-selected algorithms for authentication
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT InquireAuthChallenge (Algorithm*) > <!ATTLIST InquireAuthChallenge
AuthenticationId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o list of Authentication Challenge Packaged Contents - for
insertion into the IOTP Authentication Request Component
o Algorithm Element - for insertion into the IOTP Authentication
Request Component
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT InquireAuthChallengeResponse (AuthReqPackagedContent*,
Algorithm) >
Authenticate
The Consumer's IOTP Application Core defers payment protocol specific authentication processing and the current challenge value to the active IOTP Payment Bridge. Alternative authentication algorithms might be tried sequentially or offered to the user for selection.
Note that the IOTP Application Core has to consider both the current context and the algorithm in order to determine the responsible IOTP Payment Bridge.
Failed authentication is reported by the Business Error Code which might trigger the inquiry of the details ("Inquire Process State"). Final failures might be encoded by the process state "Failed".
Input Parameters
o Authentication Identifier o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase o Authentication Challenge Packaged Content - copied from the
IOTP Authentication Request Component
o Algorithm Element - copied from the IOTP Authentication Request
Component
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT Authenticate (Algorithm, AuthReqPackagedContent*) > <!ATTLIST Authenticate
AuthenticationId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Authentication Response Packaged Content - for insertion into
the IOTP Authentication Response Component
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT AuthenticateResponse (AuthResPackagedContent*) >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Check Authentication Response
This API function verifies the Consumer's payment protocol specific authentication response. In Baseline IOTP this API function is called by the Merchant (or the Financial Institution). It is called only if the counter party has responded with an IOTP Authentication Response Component within the Authentication Response Block. Of course, the IOTP Application Core traces the need of such an response.
Due to the authentication's statelessness, all parameters (algorithm, challenge and response) are submitted to the IOTP Payment Bridge. Authentication failure is reported by a Process State different from "CompletedOK".
Input Parameters
o Authentication Identifier o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase o Authentication Challenge Packaged Content - generated by
previous "Inquire Authentication Challenge" API call
o Algorithm Element o Authentication Response Packaged Content - copied from the
Authentication Response Component
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT CheckAuthResponse (Algorithm, AuthReqPackagedContent*,
AuthResPackagedContent*) >
<!ATTLIST CheckAuthResponse
AuthenticationId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Current Process (Authentication) State o Completion Code o Status Description and its language annotation
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT CheckAuthResponseResponse EMPTY > <!ATTLIST CheckAuthResponseResponse
ProcessState (NotYetStarted | InProgress | Suspended | CompletedOk | Failed | ProcessError)#REQUIRED CompletionCode NMTOKEN #IMPLIED xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED StatusDesc CDATA #IMPLIED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Brand Selection Related API Calls
Find Payment Instrument
This API function determines which instances of a Payment Brand, e.g., two Mondex cards, are present. The same physical card may even represent multiple payment instruments.
The IOTP Application Core supplies possible payment brand and payment protocol to the IOTP Payment Bridge that has to be considered when the IOTP Payment Bridge searches for appropriate payment instruments. This set represents the (sub)set of payment alternatives being supported by the Merchant. If the IOTP Application Cote has multiple possible payment brand/protocol, it can call this function in turn.
The Existing Payment Software responds with PayInstrument Elements with empty PayInstId attributes if it does not distinguish between different payment instruments for the particular payment alternatives.
Note that the Payment API assumes that the values of the attributes BrandId, ProtocolId, ProtocolBrandId and the currency amount suffice for the determination of the appropriate Packaged Content Element that will be transmitted to the Payment Handler later on.
Input Parameters
o Brand Identifier - copied from the Brand List Component's Brand
Element
o Payment Protocol Identifier and associated Protocol Brand
Identifier
o Payment Direction - copied from the Brand List Component o Currency Code and Currency - copied from the Currency Amount
Element
o Payment Amount - copied from the Currency Amount Element o Consumer Payment Identifier - Consumer's unique reference to
the current payment transaction
o Wallet Identifier - managed by the IOTP Application Core o (Brand) Packaged Content - further payment brand description;
copied from the Brand List Component's Brand Element
o (Protocol Brand) Element - further information; copied from the
Protocol Brand Element of the Brand List Component which relates to the Consumer selected Brand Element, if any.
o (Protocol Amount) Packaged Content - further payment protocol
description, copied from the Brand List Component's Protocol Amount Element
o Element (Protocol) Packaged Content - further payment protocol
description, copied from the Brand List Component's Pay Protocol Element
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT FindPaymentInstrument (BrandPackagedContent*,
ProtocolBrand?, PayProtocolPackagedContent*, ProtocolAmountPackagedContent*) >
<!ATTLIST FindPaymentInstrument
BrandId CDATA #REQUIRED ProtocolId CDATA #REQUIRED PayDirection (Debit|Credit) #REQUIRED CurrCodeType NMTOKEN 'ISO4217-A' CurrCode CDATA #REQUIRED Amount CDATA #REQUIRED ConsumerPayId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o The known Payment Instrument Identifiers, these are internal
values
o The user-defined names of the payment instrument and their
language encoding
The Existing Payment Software responds with an empty list of identifiers, either if it does not distinguish between different payment instruments or if there are no registered payment instruments available despite brand support for at least one (unspecified) payment protocol. In the latter case, the IOTP Payment Bridge has to request the registration of a suitable payment instrument at a subsequent step of the payment process.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT FindPaymentInstrumentResponse (PayInstrument*) > <!ELEMENT PayInstrument EMPTY > <!ATTLIST PayInstrument
Id CDATA #REQUIRED xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED PayInstName CDATA #REQUIRED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Check Payment Possibility
This API function checks whether a payment (both debit and credit) can go ahead. It can be used, for example, to check
o if there are sufficient funds available in a particular currency
for an electronic cash payment brand,
o whether there is sufficient value space left on the payment
instrument for payment refund,
o whether required system resources are available and properly
configured, e.g., serial ports or baud rate,
o whether environment requirements are fulfilled, e.g., chip card
reader presence or Internet connection.
If the payment method is based on external components, e.g., magnetic stripe or chip cards, and the check accesses the medium, the existing payment method should not mutually exclusive lock system resources, e.g., serial port or modem, that may also be required by other Existing Payment Software, e.g., multiple payment software components may share the same card reader. If this happens for API internal request processing, the function has to unlock these components prior to return. Otherwise, the payment may not proceed if the Consumer cancels immediately and decides to use another payment instrument. In this event the previous IOTP Payment Bridge is not notified about the change.
This function call happens immediately after the Consumer's payment instrument selection. For example, if the payment instrument is a chip card, that is not inserted in the chip card reader, the Consumer may be prompted for its insertion. However, the Consumer should be able to hit some 'skip' button, if the payment check is part of the actual payment protocol, too. Finally, the IOTP Payment Bridge may provide only a subset of these capabilities or may even directly generate a successful response without any checks.
Input Parameters
o Brand Identifier - user selection o Payment Instrument Identifier - user selection o Currency Code and Currency Code Type - copied from the selected
Currency Amount Element
o Payment Amount - copied from the selected Currency Amount Element o Payment Direction - copied from the selected Trading Protocol
Option Block
o Protocol Identifier - copied from the selected Pay Protocol
Element
o Protocol Brand Identifier - copied from the selected Protocol
Brand Element of the Brand List Component which relates to the selected Brand Element, if any
o Consumer Payment Identifier - Consumer's unique reference to the
current payment transaction
o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase o (Brand) Packaged Content - copied from the selected Brand Element o (Protocol Amount) Packaged Content - copied from the selected
Protocol Amount Element
o (Protocol) Packaged Content - copied from the selected Pay
Protocol Element
o (Protocol Brand) Packaged Content - copied from the selected
Protocol Brand Element of the Brand List Component which relates to the selected Brand Element, if any
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT CheckPaymentPossibility (BrandPackagedContent*,
ProtocolBrand? ProtocolAmountPackagedContent*, PayProtocolPackagedContent*>
<!ATTLIST CheckPaymentPossibility
BrandId CDATA #REQUIRED PaymentInstrumentId CDATA #IMPLIED PayDirection (Debit|Credit) #REQUIRED CurrCodeType NMTOKEN 'ISO4217-A' CurrCode CDATA #REQUIRED Amount CDATA #REQUIRED ProtocolId CDATA #REQUIRED ConsumerPayId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o three Brand Selection Info Packaged Content elements - for
insertion into the Brand Selection component
o Brand - additional data about the payment brand o Protocol Amount - additional data about the payment protocol o Currency Amount - additional payment brand and currency specific
data
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT CheckPaymentPossibilityResponse
(BrandSelBrandInfoPackagedContent*, BrandSelProtocolAmountInfoPackagedContent*, BrandSelCurrencyAmountInfoPackagedContent*) >
<!ATTLIST CheckPaymentPossibilityResponse >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Payment Transaction Related API calls
These Payment API calls may be made either by the Consumer's or Payment Handler's IOTP Application Core.
Start Payment Consumer
This API function initiates the actual payment transaction at the Consumer side. The IOTP Payment Bridge and the Existing Payment Software perform all necessary initialization and preparation for payment transaction processing. This includes the reservation of external periphery. E.g., 1) the Consumer's chip card reader needs to be protected against access from other software components, 2) the insertion of the chip card may be requested, 3) the Internet connection may be re-established, or 4) the Payment Handler may open a mutual exclusive session to the security hardware.
The IOTP Payment Bridge monitors the payment progress and stores the current payment states such that resumption - even after power failures - remains possible. Note that the IOTP Application Core supplies only a subset of the following input parameter to the associated resumption API function and refers to the payment transaction through the party's payment identifier.
Input Parameters
o Brand Identifier - copied from the selected Brand Element o Payment Instrument Identifier - the user selection o Currency Code and Currency - copied from the selected Currency
Amount Element
o Payment Amount - copied from the selected Currency Amount
Element
o Payment Direction - copied from the Brand List Component o Protocol Identifier - copied from the selected Payment Protocol
Element
o Protocol Brand Element - further information; copied from the
Protocol Brand Element of the Brand List Component which relates to the selected Brand Element, if any
o OkFrom, OkTo - copied from the Payment Component o Consumer Payment Identifier - Consumer's unique reference to
the current payment transaction
o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase o Call Back Function - used for end user notification/logging
purposes
o Call Back Language List. This list is required if the Call Back
Function is set
o (Brand) Packaged Content - further payment brand description;
copied from the selected Brand Element's content
o (Protocol Amount) Packaged Content - further payment protocol
description; copied from the selected Protocol Amount Element's content
o (Payment Protocol) Packaged Content - further payment protocol
description; copied from the selected Pay Protocol Element's content
o (Order) Packaged Content - further order description, copied
from the Order Component
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT StartPaymentConsumer (BrandPackagedContent*,
ProtocolBrand? ProtocolAmountPackagedContent*, PayProtocolPackagedContent*, OrderPackagedContent*) >
<!ATTLIST StartPaymentConsumer
BrandId CDATA #REQUIRED PaymentInstrumentId CDATA #IMPLIED CurrCodeType NMTOKEN 'ISO4217-A' CurrCode CDATA #REQUIRED Amount CDATA #REQUIRED PayDirection (Debit|Credit) #REQUIRED ProtocolId CDATA #REQUIRED ProtocolBrandId CDATA #IMPLIED OkFrom CDATA #REQUIRED OkTo CDATA #REQUIRED ConsumerPayId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED CallBackFunction CDATA #IMPLIED CallBackLanguageList NMTOKENS #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Continuation Status o (Payment Scheme) Packaged Content - for insertion into the
Payment Scheme Component of the IOTP Payment Request Block
The IOTP Application Core is allowed to reissue this request several times on failed analyses of the response.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT StartPaymentConsumerResponse
(PaySchemePackagedContent*) >
<!ATTLIST StartPaymentConsumerResponse
ContStatus (End|Continue) #REQUIRED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Start Payment Payment Handler
This API function initializes the Consumer initiated payment transaction at the Payment Handler's side. Similar to the Consumer's system, the IOTP Payment Bridge and the Existing Payment Software perform all necessary initialization and preparation for payment transaction processing.
Input Parameters
o Brand Identifier - copied from the Consumer selected Brand
Element
o Consumer Payment Identifier - copied from the Payment Scheme
Component
o Currency Code and Currency - copied from the Consumer selected
Currency Amount Element
o Payment Amount - copied from the Consumer selected Currency
Amount Element
o Payment Direction - copied from the Brand List Component o Protocol Identifier - copied from the Consumer selected
Payment Protocol Element
o Protocol Brand Identifier - copied from the Brand Protocol
Element of the Brand List Component which relates to the Consumer selected Brand Element, if any
o OkFrom, OkTo - copied from the Payment Component o Payment Handler Payment Identifier - Payment Handler's unique
reference to the current payment transaction
o Merchant Organisation Identifier - copied from the Merchant's
Organisation Element
o Wallet Identifier - renaming to till identifier neglected -
and/or Pass Phrase
o Call Back Function - used for end user notification/logging
purposes
o Call Back Language List. This list is required if the call
back function is set
o (Brand) Packaged Content - further payment brand description;
copied from the Consumer selected Brand Element's content
o (Protocol Brand) Packaged Content - further information; copied
from the Protocol Brand Element of the Brand List Component which relates to the Consumer selected Brand Element, if any.
o (Protocol Amount) Packaged Content - further payment protocol
description; copied from the Consumer selected Protocol Amount Element's content
o (Protocol) Packaged Content - further payment protocol
description; copied from the Consumer selected Pay Protocol Element's content
o (TradingRoleData) Packaged Content - further payment protocol
description; the Name Attribute of the packaged contents must include "Payment:" as the prefix, for example "Payment:SET-OD". For more information, see [SET/IOTP].
o Three Brand Selection Info Packaged Content Elements - copied
from the Brand Selection Component
o Brand - additional data about the payment brand o Protocol Amount - additional data about the payment protocol o Currency Amount - additional payment brand and currency
specific data
o (Payment Scheme) Packaged Content.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT StartPaymentPaymentHandler (BrandPackagedContent*,
ProtocolBrand?, ProtocolAmountPackagedContent*, PayProtocolPackagedContent*, BrandSelBrandInfoPackagedContent*, BrandSelProtocolAmountInfoPackagedContent*, BrandSelCurrencyAmountInfoPackagedContent*, TradingRoleDataPackagedContent*, PaySchemePackagedContent*) >
<!ATTLIST StartPaymentPaymentHandler
BrandId CDATA #REQUIRED ConsumerPayId CDATA #IMPLIED CurrCodeType NMTOKEN 'ISO4217-A' CurrCode CDATA #REQUIRED Amount CDATA #REQUIRED PayDirection (Debit|Credit) #REQUIRED ProtocolId CDATA #REQUIRED
OkFrom CDATA #REQUIRED OkTo CDATA #REQUIRED PaymentHandlerPayId CDATA #REQUIRED MerchantOrgId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED CallBackFunction CDATA #IMPLIED CallBackLanguageList NMTOKENS #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Continuation Status o (Payment Scheme) Packaged Content - for insertion into the
Payment Scheme Component of the IOTP Payment Exchange Block
The response message must contain payment schema data if the continuation status signals "Continue". The IOTP Application Core is allowed to reissue this request several times on failed analyses of the response.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT StartPaymentPaymentHandlerResponse
(PaySchemePackagedContent*) >
<!ATTLIST StartPaymentPaymentHandlerResponse
ContStatus (End|Continue) #REQUIRED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Resume Payment Consumer
This API function resumes a previously suspended payment at the Consumer side. Resumption includes the internal inquiry of the payment transaction data, e.g., payment amount, protocol identifier, and the whole initialization as it has been applied on the "Start Payment Consumer" API request.
It is up to the IOTP Application Core to decide whether an IOTP Payment Request Block or a IOTP Payment Exchange Block needs to be generated. One indicator might be the receipt of a previous IOTP Payment Exchange Block from the Payment Handler, e.g., the knowledge of the Payment Handler Payment Identifier.
Input Parameters
o Consumer Payment Identifier o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase
o Call Back Function - used for end user notification/logging
purposes
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT ResumePaymentConsumer EMPTY > <!ATTLIST ResumePaymentConsumer
ConsumerPayId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED CallBackFunction CDATA #IMPLIED CallBackLanguageList NMTOKENS #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Continuation Status o (Payment Scheme) Packaged Content - for insertion in the
Payment Scheme Component of the next IOTP message (Payment Exchange or Request Block).
The IOTP Application Core is allowed to reissue this request several times on failed analyses of the response. However, the IOTP Payment Bridge might reject the resumption request by using the "AttNotSupp" Error Code "naming" the Consumer Payment Identifier attribute. Then the Consumer has to apply normal error processing to the current (sub-)transaction and to issue a new Payment Request Block to the Payment Handler.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT ResumePaymentConsumerResponse
(PaySchemePackagedContent*) >
<!ATTLIST ResumePaymentConsumerResponse
ContStatus (End|Continue) #REQUIRED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Resume Payment Payment Handler
This API function resumes a payment at the Payment Handler side.
Input Parameters
o Payment Handler Payment Identifier o Wallet Identifier - renaming to till identifier neglected - and
Pass Phrase
o Call Back Function - used for end user notification/logging
purposes
o Call Back Language List. This list is required if the Call Back
Function is set
o (Payment Scheme) Packaged Content - copied from the Payment
Scheme Component of the received IOTP message (Payment Exchange or Request Block).
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT ResumePaymentPaymentHandler
(PaySchemePackagedContent*) >
<!ATTLIST ResumePaymentPaymentHandler
PaymentHandlerPayId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED CallBackFunction CDATA #IMPLIED CallBackLanguageList NMTOKENS #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Continuation Status o (Payment Scheme) Packaged Content - for insertion in the
Payment Scheme Component of the next Payment Exchange Block.
The response message contains payment schema specific data if the continuation status signals "Continue". The IOTP Application Core is allowed to reissue this request several times on failed analyses of the response.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT ResumePaymentPaymentHandlerResponse (PaySchemePackagedContent*) > <!ATTLIST ResumePaymentPaymentHandlerResponse
ContStatus (End|Continue) #REQUIRED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Continue Process
This API function passes one specific IOTP Payment Scheme Component, i.e., the encapsulated Packaged Content elements, received from the counter party (e.g., Consumer) to the IOTP Payment Bridge and responds with the next IOTP Payment Scheme Component for submission to the counter party.
Input Parameters
o Payty's Payment Identifier o Process (Transaction) Type which distinguishes between Payments
and Inquiries.
o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase o (Payment Scheme) Packaged Content - copied from the Payment
Scheme Component of the received Payment Exchange Block or from the Error Block.
Each party should set the payment identifier with the local identifier (Consumer: ConsumerPayId; Merchant: MerchantPayId; Payment Handler: PaymentHandlerPayId).
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT ContinueProcess (PaySchemePackagedContent+) > <!ATTLIST ContinueProcess
PayId CDATA #REQUIRED ProcessType (Payment | Inquiry) 'Payment' WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Continuation Status o (Payment Scheme) Packaged Content - for insertion in the
Payment Scheme Component of the next Payment Exchange Block or final Payment Response Block
The response message contains payment schema data if the continuation status signals "Continue". The IOTP Payment Bridge must signal "End", if the payment scheme data was received within an IOTP Error Block containing an Error Component with severity HardError.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT ContinueProcessResponse (PaySchemePackagedContent*) > <!ATTLIST ContinueProcessResponse
ContStatus (End|Continue) #REQUIRED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Change Process State
The IOTP Application Core changes the current payment status by this request. The IOTP Payment Bridge may be notified about business level normal termination, cancellation, suspension, and processing errors. Notification happens by requesting the intended process state.
The IOTP Payment Bridge processes the status change and reports the result.
The IOTP Application Core has to analyze any returned process status in order to check whether the IOTP Payment Bridge has agreed to or declined the status switch. E.g., the submitted Process State "CompleteOk" may lead to the Payment Status "Failed" if the payment transaction has already failed.
Transaction Suspension is notified by the newly introduced Process State "Suspended". The other attribute values have been taken from the IOTP specification.
This API function might be called by the Consumer, Merchant, or Payment Handler for each payment transaction anytime after the issuance of "FindPaymentInstrument" to the IOTP Payment Bridge by the Consumer, the issuance of "FindAcceptedPaymentBrand" by the Merchant, or the issuance of "StartPaymentPaymentHandler" by the Payment Handler.
The Process States "CompletedOk", "Failed", and "ProcessError" are final in the sense that they can not be changed on subsequent calls. However, the API function should not return with an error code if such an incompatible call has been issued. Instead it should report the old unchanged Process State.
Unknown payment transactions are reported by the Error Code "AttValInvalid" pointing to the PayId attribute.
Input Parameters
o Party's Payment Identifier o intended Payment Status o intended Completion Code o Process (Transaction) Type which distinguishes between Payments
and Inquiries.
o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT ChangeProcessState EMPTY > <!ATTLIST ChangeProcessState
PayId CDATA #REQUIRED ProcessState (NotYetStarted | InProgress | Suspended | CompletedOk | Failed | ProcessError) #REQUIRED CompletionCode NMTOKEN #IMPLIED ProcessType (Payment | Inquiry) 'Payment' WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Process State and Percent Complete o Completion Code o Status Description and its language annotation
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT ChangeProcessStateResponse EMPTY > <!ATTLIST ChangeProcessStateResponse
ProcessState (NotYetStarted | InProgress | Suspended | CompletedOk | Failed | ProcessError) #REQUIRED PercentComplete CDATA #IMPLIED CompletionCode NMTOKEN #IMPLIED xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED StatusDesc CDATA #IMPLIED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
General Inquiry API Calls
The following calls are not necessarily assigned to a payment transaction and may be issued at any time. There are no dependencies on any other calls.
Remove Payment Log
The IOTP Application Core notifies the IOTP Payment Bridge and/or the corresponding Existing Payment Software via IOTP Payment Bridge that any record in the Payment Log file, that deals with the listed payment transaction, might be removed.
Input Parameters
o Party's Payment Identifier o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT RemovePaymentLog EMPTY > <!ATTLIST RemovePaymentLog
PayId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT RemovePaymentLogResponse EMPTY > <!ATTLIST RemovePaymentLogResponse >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Payment Instrument Inquiry
This API function retrieves the properties of the Payment Instrument. The Payment Instrument Identifier could be omitted if this identifier is derived by other means, e.g., by analysis of the currently inserted chip card. If the Payment instrument could not uniquely determined, the IOTP Payment Bridge may provide suitable dialogs for user input.
E.g., this API function might be used during problem resolution with the Customer Care Provider of the issuer of the payment instrument, in order to inquire payment instrument specific values.
Input parameters
o Brand Identifier o Payment Instrument Identifier o Protocol Identifier
o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase o Property Type List - sequence of values whose language is
identified by xml:lang
o (Brand) PackagedContent Content - further payment brand
description
o Protocol Brand Content - further payment brand information o (Protocol Amount) PackagedContent Content - further payment
protocol description
o (Pay Protocol) PackagedContent Content - further payment
protocol description
The codes in the property type list are of two types:
o generic codes which apply to all payment methods but might be
unavailable
o Payment Brand specific codes.
Generic codes for the Property Type List are:
Property Type Meaning Balance Current balance Limit Maximum balance PaymentLimit Maximum payment transaction limit Expiration Expiration date Identifier Issuer assigned identifier of the payment
instrument. Usually, it does not match with
the API's payment instrument identifier.
LogEntries Number of stored payment transaction
entries. The entries are numbered from 0
(the most recent) to some non-negative
value for the oldest entry.
PayAmountn Payment Amount of the n-th recorded payment
transaction, n may negative
PayPartyn Remote party of the n-th payment recorded
transaction, n may negative
PayTimen Time of the n-th payment recorded
transaction, n may negative
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT PaymentInstrumentInquiry (BrandPackagedContent*,
ProtocolBrand?, ProtocolAmountPackagedContent*, PayProtocolPackagedContent*) >
<!ATTLIST PaymentInstrumentInquiry
BrandId CDATA #REQUIRED PaymentInstrumentId CDATA #IMPLIED ProtocolId CDATA #REQUIRED
PropertyTypeList NMTOKENS #REQUIRED xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output parameters
o a list of zero or more unavailable property values whose
language are identified by xml:lang.
o a list of zero or more sets of "Properties Types", "Property
Values" and "Property Descriptions"
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT PaymentInstrumentInquiryResponse
(PaymentInstrumentProperty*) >
<!ATTLIST PaymentInstrumentInquiryResponse
xml:lang NMTOKEN #REQUIRED UnavailablePropertyList NMTOKENS #IMPLIED >
<!ELEMENT PaymentInstrumentProperty EMPTY > <!ATTLIST PaymentInstrumentProperty
PropertyType NMTOKEN #REQUIRED PropertyValue CDATA #REQUIRED PropertyDesc CDATA #REQUIRED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Inquire Pending Payment
This API function reports the party's payment identifiers of any pending payment transactions that the IOTP Payment Bridge/Existing Payment Software recommends be completed or suspended prior to the processing of new payment transactions. It does not respond with further transaction details. These have to be requested with "Inquire Process State".
Note that the IOTP Payment Bridge has to respond without the benefit of any pass phrase if there exist no pending payment transaction. But if there are some pending payment transactions, the IOTP Payment Bridge may refuse the immediate response and may instead request the appropriate pass phase from the IOTP Application Core.
Input Parameters
o Wallet Identifier and/or Passphrase
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT InquirePendingPayment EMPTY > <!ATTLIST InquirePendingPayment
WalletId CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Party's Payment Identifier
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT InquirePendingPaymentResponse (PaymentId*) >
<!ELEMENT PaymentId EMPTY > <!ATTLIST PaymentId
PayId CDATA #REQUIRED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Payment Related Inquiry API Calls
Check Payment Receipt
This function is used by the Consumer and might be used by the Payment Handler to check the consistency, validity, and integrity of IOTP payment receipts which might consist of Packaged Content Elements
o from the IOTP Payment Receipt Component - provided by the Payment
Handler's "Inquire Process State" API call shortly before payment completion,
o from Payment Scheme Components being exchanged during the actual
payment, or
o being returned by the Consumer's "Inquire Process State" API call
shortly before payment completion
The IOTP Application Core has to check the PayReceiptNameRefs attribute of the IOTP Payment Receipt Component and to supply exactly the Packaged Content Elements being referred to.
Failed verification is returns a business error.
Note that this Payment API assumes that any payment receipt builds upon a subset of elements with reference to [IOTP]. Furthermore, the Packaged Content Element have to be distinguishable by their Name attribute.
Input Parameters
o Party's Payment Identifier o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase o All Packaged Content Elements in the payment receipt
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT CheckPaymentReceipt (PackagedContent*) > <!ATTLIST CheckPaymentReceipt
PayId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT CheckPaymentReceiptResponse EMPTY > <!ATTLIST CheckPaymentReceiptResponse >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Expand Payment Receipt
This API function expands any IOTP payment receipt into a form which may be used for display or printing purposes. "Check Payment Receipt" should be used first if there is any question of the payment receipt containing errors.
The same conventions apply to the input parameter as for "Check Payment Receipt" (cf. Section 4.5.1).
Input Parameters
o Party's Payment Identifier o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase o All Packaged Content Elements that build the payment receipt
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT ExpandPaymentReceipt (PackagedContent*) > <!ATTLIST ExpandPaymentReceipt
PayId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Brand Identifier o Protocol specific Brand Identifier o Payment Instrument Identifier o Currency Code and Currency Code Type o Payment Amount o Payment Direction o Time Stamp - issuance of the receipt o Protocol Identifier o Protocol specific Transaction Identifier - this is an internal
reference number which identifies the payment
o Consumer Description, Payment Handler Description, and a
language annotation
o Style Sheet Net Location o Payment Property List. A list of type/value/description triples
which contains additional information about the payment which is not covered by any of the other output parameters; property descriptions have to consider the language annotation.
The Style Sheet Net Location refers to a Style Sheet (e.g., [XSLT]) that contains presentation information about the reported XML encoded data.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT ExpandPaymentReceiptResponse (PaymentProperty*) > <!ATTLIST ExpandPaymentReceiptResponse
BrandId CDATA #IMPLIED PaymentInstrumentId CDATA #IMPLIED Amount CDATA #IMPLIED CurrCodeType NMTOKEN #IMPLIED CurrCode CDATA #IMPLIED PayDirection (Debit|Credit) #IMPLIED TimeStamp CDATA #IMPLIED ProtocolId CDATA #IMPLIED ProtocolBrandId CDATA #IMPLIED ProtocolTransId CDATA #IMPLIED xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED ConsumerDesc CDATA #IMPLIED
PaymentHandlerDesc CDATA #IMPLIED StyleSheetNetLocn CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT PaymentProperty EMPTY > <!ATTLIST PaymentProperty
PropertyType NMTOKEN #REQUIRED PropertyValue CDATA #REQUIRED PropertyDesc CDATA #REQUIRED >
The Existing Payment Software should return as many attributes as possible from the supplied IOTP Payment Receipt. The payment supplement defines the attribute values for the payment properties.
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Inquire Process State
This API function returns the current payment state and optionally further Packaged Content Elements that form the payment receipt. Called by the Payment Handler, the IOTP Payment Bridge might respond with data intended for inclusion in the IOTP Payment Receipt Component's Packaged Content. When the Consumer calls this function shortly before payment completion, it may respond with further items of the payment receipt. Such items might be created by a chip card.
Input Parameters
o Party's Payment Identifier o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT InquireProcessState EMPTY > <!ATTLIST InquireProcessState
PayId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Current Process State and Percent Complete o Completion Code o Status Description and its language annotation o Payment Receipt Name References to all Packaged Content
Elements that build the payment receipt (cf. Section 4.5.1), even if they have not been created so far (Consumer's share)
o Any Packaged Content Element being available that form the
payment receipt
The IOTP provides a linking capability to the payment receipt delivery. Instead of encapsulating the whole payment specific data into the packaged content of the payment receipt, other Payment Scheme Components' Packaged Content might be referred to.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT InquireProcessStateResponse (PackagedContent*) > <!ATTLIST InquireProcessStateResponse
ProcessState (NotYetStarted | InProgress | Suspended | CompletedOk | Failed | ProcessError) #REQUIRED PercentComplete CDATA #IMPLIED CompletionCode NMTOKEN #IMPLIED xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED StatusDesc CDATA #IMPLIED PayReceiptNameRefs NMTOKENS #IMPLIED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Start Payment Inquiry
This API function responds with any additional payment scheme specific data that is needed by the Payment Handler for Consumer initiated payment transaction inquiry processing. Probably, the IOTP Payment Bridge (or the corresponding Existing Payment Software) has to determine the payment related items that were provided with the "Start Payment Consumer" API function call.
Input Parameters
o Consumer Payment Identifier o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT StartPaymentInquiry EMPTY > <!ATTLIST StartPaymentInquiry
ConsumerPayId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o (Payment Scheme) Packaged Content - intended for insertion in
the Payment Scheme Component of the Inquiry Request Block
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT StartPaymentInquiryResponse
(PaySchemePackagedContent*) >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Inquire Payment Status
The Payment Handler calls this API function for Consumer initiated inquiry processing. It differs from the previous "Inquire Process State" API function by the optional inclusion of payment scheme specific data. The response may encapsulate further details about the payment transaction.
Input Parameters
o Payment Handler Payment Identifier o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase o (Payment Scheme) Packaged Content - copied from the Inquiry
Request Block's Payment Scheme Component
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT InquirePaymentStatus (PaySchemePackagedContent*) > <!ATTLIST InquirePaymentStatus
PaymentHandlerPayId CDATA #REQUIRED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o Current Process State o Completion Code
o Status Description and its language annotation o (Payment Scheme) Packaged Content - intended for insertion in
the Payment Scheme Component of the Inquiry Response Block
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT InquirePaymentStatusResponse (PaySchemePackagedContent*) > <!ATTLIST InquirePaymentStatusResponse
PaymentHandlerPayId CDATA #REQUIRED ProcessState (NotYetStarted | InProgress | Suspended | CompletedOk | Failed | ProcessError) #REQUIRED CompletionCode NMTOKEN #IMPLIED xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED StatusDesc CDATA #IMPLIED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Other API Calls
Manage Payment Software
The following API function notifies the IOTP Payment Bridge about the intended registration, modification, or deletion of a payment instrument. The actual processing is up to the IOTP Payment Bridge.
This API request may also be used to activate the IOTP Payment Bridge (and the corresponding Existing Payment Software) for general administration purposes.
Input Parameters
o Brand Identifier o Protocol Identifier o Any action code: o New - add new payment method / instrument o Update - change the payment method's / instrument's data o Delete - delete a payment method / instrument o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase o (Brand) Packaged Content - further payment brand description o (Pay Protocol) Packaged Content - further payment protocol
description
o (Protocol Amount) Packaged Content - further payment protocol
description
If the Action attribute is set, the Brand and Protocol Identifier have to also be set. The IOTP Payment Bridge has to provide the required user dialogs and selection mechanisms. E.g., updates and deletions may require the selection of the payment instrument. A new wallet might be silently generated on the supplement of a new Wallet Identifier or after an additional end user acknowledge. The IOTP Application Core should not provide any pass phrases for new wallets. Instead, the IOTP Payment Bridge has to request and verify them, which may return their value to the IOTP Application Core in plain text. In addition, the IOTP Payment Bridge returns the supported authentication algorithms when a new brand and protocol pair has been registered.
If the "Action" attribute is omitted, the IOTP Payment Bridge which is responsible for the Existing Payment Software pops up in a general interactive mode.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT ManagePaymentSoftware (BrandPackagedContent*,
ProtocolAmountPackagedContent*, PayProtocolPackagedContent*) >
<!ATTLIST ManagePaymentSoftware
BrandId CDATA #IMPLIED ProtocolId CDATA #IMPLIED Action (New | Update | Delete) #IMPLIED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
o An action code: o New - added new wallet o Update - changed wallet's configuration o Delete - removed a wallet o Wallet Identifier and/or Pass Phrase
The IOTP Payment Bridge does not return any information about the set of registered payment instruments because these data items are dynamically inferred during the brand selection process at the beginning of each IOTP transaction. However, the IOTP Application Core has to be notified about new wallets and should be notified about updated and removed wallets (identifier). Alternatively,
removed wallets can be implicitly detected during the next brand selection phase. Updated wallets do no affect the processing of the IOTP Application Core. The IOTP Payment Bridge should only support the addition of at most one wallet because it is not able to report multiple additions at once back to the IOTP Application Core.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT ManagePaymentSoftwareResponse EMPTY > <!ATTLIST ManagePaymentSoftwareResponse
Action (New | Update | Delete) #IMPLIED WalletID CDATA #IMPLIED Passphrase CDATA #IMPLIED AuthNames NMTOKENS #REQUIRED >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Call Back Function
This API function, called by the IOTP Payment Bridge, is used to provide information for Consumer or Payment Handler notification about the progress of the payment transaction.
Its use is illustrated in the diagram below.
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IOTP Application ----calls----
| Core | |
display | | v
to <---------- Call Back <--calls--- Payment
user | | Software
----------------
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Figure 9. Call Back Function
Whenever this function is called, the content of the status description should be made available to the user. For example on a status bar, a pop up window, etc.
A reference to the Call Back function is passed as an input parameter to the "Start Payment X" and "Resume Payment X" API function. Afterwards, this function might be called whenever the status changes or progress needs to be reported.
Input Parameters
o the software identifier of the caller o Party's Payment Identifier o Process State and Percent Complete o Completion Code o Status Description and its language annotation, text which
provides information about the progress of the call. It should be displayed or made available to, for example, the Consumer.
Examples of Status Description could be:
o "Paying 12.30 USD to XYZ Inc" o "Payment completed" o "Payment aborted"
The valid languages are announced in the Call Back Language List attribute in "Start Payment X" and "Resume Payment X" API function calls.
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT CallBack EMPTY > <!ATTLIST CallBack
ContentSoftwareID CDATA #IMPLIED PayId CDATA #REQUIRED ProcessState (NotYetStarted | InProgress | Suspended | CompletedOk | Failed | ProcessError) #IMPLIED PercentComplete CDATA #IMPLIED CompletionCode NMTOKEN #IMPLIED xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED StatusDesc CDATA #IMPLIED >
Output Parameters
XML definition:
<!ELEMENT CallBackResponse EMPTY > <!ATTLIST CallBackResponse >
Tables 4 and 5 explain the attributes and elements; Table 3 introduces the Error Codes.
Basically, the call back function accepts all input arguments or rejects the whole request. It may even accept malformed requests.
Some payment schemes may support or require that the Consumer might be able to cancel the payment at any time. The Call Back function can be used to facilitate this by returning the cancellation request on the next call (using the Business Error Code and Completion Code "ConsCancelled").
Vice versa the Payment Handler's Application Core might use the similar mechanism to signal its IOTP Payment Bridges any exceptional need for a fast shutdown. These IOTP Payment Bridges may initiate the appropriate steps for terminating/cancelling all pending payment transactions.
Note that the "Change Process State" API function provides the second mechanism for such kind of notification. Therefore, the IOTP Payment Bridge or Existing Payment Software may ignore the details of the "Call Back" response.
Security Consideration
The IOTP Payment APIs only supports security using pass phrase to access to payment Wallet. These can be protected over TLS, which provides stronger security at the transport layer, but implementations are out the scope of this document.
See also security consideration section of [IOTP].
References
Normative References
[IOTP] Burdett, D., "Internet Open Trading Protocol - IOTP
version 1.0", RFC 2801, April 2000.
[ISO4217] ISO 4217: Codes for the Representation of Currencies.
Available from ANSI or ISO.
[URL] Berners-Lee, T., Masinter, L. and M. McCahill, "Uniform
Resource Locators (URL)", RFC 1738, December 1994.
[UTC] Universal Time Coordinated. A method of defining time
absolutely relative to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Typically of the form: "CCYY-MM- DDTHH:MM:SS.sssZ+n" where
the "+n" defines the number of hours from GMT. See ISO
DIS8601.
[XML] Extensible Mark Up Language (XML) 1.0 (Third Edition). A
W3C recommendation. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml
[XML-NS] Namespaces in XML Recommendation. T. Bray, D. Hollander,
A. Layman. Janaury 1999. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml- names
[XSLT] Extensible Style Language Transformations 1.0, November
1999, See http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
Informative References
[IOTPBOOK] D. Burdett, D.E. Eastlake III, and M. Goncalves, Internet
Open Trading Protocol, McGraw-Hill, 2000. ISBN 0-07-
135501-4.
[SET] SET Secure Electronic Transaction(TM) , Version 1.0, May
31, 1997
Book 1: Business Description
Book 2: Programmer's Guide
Book 3: Formal Protocol Definition
[SET/IOTP] Kawatsura, Y., "Secure Electronic Transaction (SET)
Supplement for the v1.0 Internet Open Trading Protocol
(IOTP)", RFC 3538, June 2003.
[TLS] Dierks, T. and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0",
RFC 2246, January 1999.
Acknowledgement
The contributions of Werner Hans of Atos Origin are gratefully acknowledged.
Authors' Addresses
Hans-Bernhard Beykirch
EMail: [email protected]
Yoshiaki Kawatsura Hitachi, Ltd. 890 Kashimada Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi Kanagawa, Japan 212-8567
EMail: [email protected]
Masaaki Hiroya Technoinfo Service, Inc. 333-2-718 Uchikoshi-machi Hachioji-shi Tokyo 192-0911 JAPAN
EMail: [email protected]
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