International NFC Payments (2005 - current)
The INP IG was established since 2008 and evolved from the IMP IG. In the past years, the issue group has made considerable progress. Among its accomplishments, the IMP IG has set up and carried out successfully several field trials for phone-bill based IMP. It also submitted best practices and annual recommendations based on their results.
Additionally, the IG not only focuses on phone bill-based IMP but is also interested in the development of Near Field Communication (NFC) IC card-based micropayments around the world. The most recent annual recommendation paper identified issues concerning the extension of NFC IC card-based micropayments to International Micropayments.
The INP IG is interested in promoting NFC payment worldwide. Interoperability is one of the biggest issues that can impact its success. The IG is currently investigating issues concerning INP interoperability. Based on the current status of INP interoperability, the future direction of the INP IG will devote attention to the following issues:
- Interoperability barrier (cross border and by application field)
- Key factors of successful business model
- Best practices of unified service provision by OTA
- Unequal tax and legal policy barrier This year, the INP IG is focusing
on the following issues of international NFC mobile payment:
- popularization of NFC handset,
- interflow of prepaid e-wallet,
- Best practice share of TSM(Trusted Service Management)
- Forming factors of healthy business model
- See also these PDF downloads:
- INP : Recommendations
- GBDe Recommendations (San Francisco), October 2008
EN PDF - IMP : Recommendations
- GBDe Recommendations (Tokyo), November 2007
EN PDF - IMP : Summary of Recommendations
- GBDe Recommendations (Taipei), November 2006
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