What happened to X9.59?

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

On 05/11/09 06:06, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> I was looking for information on this recently to update an old reference to
> the DSTU version but it seems to have vanished, there's no information on it
> online that I could find after about 2001 or so (apart from a reference to a
> 2006 version in a conference paper).  The ANSI web site claims that it doesn't
> exist, stopping the series at X9.58.

x9 web site
http://www.x9.org/

"find & buy standards" URL from above:
http://www.techstreet.com/x9gate.tmpl

x9 series have passed "100" ... but no longer lists x9.59. to some extent x9.59 went the way of some other payment technologies in the late 90s and early part of this decade ... when there was a big retrenching from hardware tokens and other more secure technologies for one reason or another ... some of it touched in this recent post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#62

my x9.59 related information
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959

there was this NACHA RFI from 1998
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/nacharfi.htm
and report mentioned here
http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/News/news.html
declaring success and then evaporating
http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/docs/ISAP-Pilot-Final.doc

in large part because of the rapidly spreading opinion that hardware tokens weren't practical in consumer market. I've discussed this more recently  (although cognitive dissonance with merchants & interchange fees played a role).
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#7

hardware token issue also discussed in thread on this mailing list from two yrs ago:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#34 The bank fraud blame game
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#35 The bank fraud blame game
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#38 The bank fraud blame game

and for slight topic drift ... this thread on "new standard for encrypting card data"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#25
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#63

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40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970

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