INTERNET-DRAFT                                      IOTP HTTP Supplement
                                                           February 1999
                                                     Expires August 1999




         Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) HTTP Supplement
         -------- ---- ------- -------- ------ ---- ----------

                         Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
                             Chris J. Smith



                        Status of This Document

   This draft, file name draft-ietf-trade-iotp-http-01.txt, is intended
   to become a Proposed Standard RFC.  Distribution of this document is
   unlimited. Comments should be sent to the TRADE WG mailing list
   <ietf-trade@eListX.com> or to the authors.

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Abstract

   Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) messages will be carried as XML
   documents. As such, the goal of mapping to the transport layer is to
   ensure that the underlying XML documents are carried successfully
   between the various parties.

   This documents describes that mapping for the Hyper Text Transport
   Protocol (HTTP), Versions 1.0 and 1.1.



Table of Contents

      Status of This Document....................................1

      Abstract...................................................2
      Table of Contents..........................................2

      1. Introduction............................................3
      2. HTTP Servers and Clients................................3
      3. HTTP Net Locations......................................3
      4. Consumer Clients........................................3
      4.1 Starting the IOTP Client and the Merchant IOTP Server..4
      4.2 Ongoing IOTP Messages..................................4
      4.3 Stopping an IOTP Transaction...........................5
      5. Starting the Payment handler and Deliverer IOTP Servers.6
      6. Security Considerations.................................6
      7. IANA Considerations.....................................6

      References.................................................7
      Authors Addresses..........................................7
      Expiration and File Name...................................8


















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1. Introduction

   Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) messages will be carried as XML
   documents. As such, the goal of mapping to the transport layer is to
   ensure that the underlying XML documents are carried successfully
   between the various parties.

   This documents describes that mapping for the Hyper Text Transport
   Protocol (HTTP), Versions 1.0 and 1.1 [RFCs 1945, 2068].

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED",  "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].



2. HTTP Servers and Clients

   The structure of IOTP maps on to the structure of HTTP in the
   following way:

   The merchant, payment handler, deliverer, merchant customer care, and
      payment customer care roles are all represented by HTTP servers.
      Each may be represented by a separate server, or they may be
      combined in any combination.

   The consumer role is represented by an HTTP client.

   Note: A Merchant, may act in the role of a consumer, for example to
   deposit electronic cash. In this case the Merchant, as an
   organisation rather than as a role, would need to be supported by an
   HTTP client.



3. HTTP Net Locations

   The Net Locations contained within the IOTP specification are all
   URLs [RFC 1738]. If a secure connection is required or desired any
   secure channel that both the HTTP Server and Client support may be
   used, for example SSL version 3 or TLS [RFC 2246].



4. Consumer Clients

   In most environments, the consumer agent will initially be an HTML
   browser. However, this does not provide the needed capability to act
   as an agent for the consumer for an IOTP transaction. This leads to
   two requirements:


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   a method of starting and passing control to the IOTP client, and

   a method of closing down the IOTP client cleanly and passing control
      back to the HTML browser once the IOTP Transaction has finished.



4.1 Starting the IOTP Client and the Merchant IOTP Server

   At some point, the HTTP client at the consumer will send a HTTP
   request that is interpreted as an "IOTP Startup Request" by the
   Merchant HTTP server. This might, for example, be the result of
   clicking on a "pay" button.  This message is a stand-in for a request
   message of some form and the Merchant Server will respond with the
   first IOTP Message in the form of an XML document.

   The MIME type for all IOTP messages is: "application/iotp"; however
   "application/x-iotp" has been in use for experimentation and
   development and SHOULD also be recognized.  Because HTTP is binary
   clean, no content-transfer-encoding is required.  (See [RFC 2376] re
   the application/xml type which has some similar considerations.)

   This HTTP response will be interpreted by the HTML browser as a
   request to start the application associated with MIME type
   "application/iotp", and to pass the content of this message to that
   application.

   At this point, the IOTP client will be started and have the first
   message.

   IOTP messages are short-lived. Therefore, the HTTP server should
   avoid having its responses cahced.  In HTTP V1.0, the "nocache"
   pragma can be used.  This can be neglected on SSL/TLS secured
   connections which are not cached and on POST HTTP request in HTTP
   v1.1 as in v1.1 POST responses are not cached.



4.2 Ongoing IOTP Messages

   Data from earlier IOTP Messages in a transaction must be retained by
   the IOTP Client so that it may (1) be copied to make up part of later
   IOTP Messages, (2) used in caculations to verify signatures in later
   IOTP message, (3) be resent in some cases where it is a request that
   times out, (4) used as input to the Customer Care role in later
   versions of IOTP, etc. The way in which the data is copied depends on
   the IOTP Transaction.

   The IOTP Messages contain Net Locations (e.g. the PayReqNetLocn)
   which for HTTP will contain the URLs to which the IOTP client must


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   ship IOTP Messages.

   Subsequent IOTP Messages (XML documents) will be sent using the POST
   function of HTTP. The HTTP client has to perform full HTTP POST
   requests.

   The XML documents will be sent in a manner compatible with the
   external encodings allowed by the XML specification.



4.3 Stopping an IOTP Transaction

   An IOTP Transaction is complete

   -- when an IOTP Message is received by the IOTP client with a status
      of "LastMsg",

   -- the IOTP client decides to fail the IOTP Transaction for some
      reason either by canceling the transaction or as a result of
      discovering an error in an IOTP message received, or

   -- a "time out" occurs or a connection fails, e.g. a response to an
      IOTP Message, has not been received after some user-defined period
      of Time (including retransmissions).

   An IOTP Client which processes an IOTP Transaction which:

   -- completes successfully i.e. it has not received any Fail Trading
      Block, must direct the browser to the Net Location specified in
      SuccessNetLocn in the Protocol Options Component, i.e., cause it
      to do a GET with that URL.

   -- does not complete successfully, because it has received some Fail
      Trading Bloc,k must display the information in the Fail Message,
      stop the transaction, then pass control to the browser so that it
      will do a GET on the Error Net Location specified for the role
      from which the error was received.  See draft-ietf-trade-iopt-
      v1.0-protocol-*.txt.

   -- is cancelled for some reason, sends an IOTP Message containing an
      Error Trading Block to the CancelNetLocn contained in the Protocol
      Options Component, stops the IOTP Transaction, and hands control
      to the browser so that it will do a GET on the Cancel Net
      Locations specified for the role the cusomer was in communications
      with when the cancel occured.  See draft-ietf-trade-iopt-v1.0-
      protocol-*.txt

   -- is in error because an IOTP Message does not conform to this
      specification, sends an IOTP Message containing a Fail Trading


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      Block to role from which the bad message was received and the
      ErrorNetLogLoc specified for that role, stops the IOTP
      Transaction, and hands control to the browser so that it will do a
      GET from the Error Net Location specified for the role from which
      the bad message was received.  See draft-ietf-trade-iopt-v1.0-
      protocol-*.txt

   -- has a "time out", must display a message describing the time out.
      May give the user the option of cancelling or retrying and/or may
      automatically retry.  On failure due to time out, treat as an
      error above.

   Each implementation of an IOTP client may decide whether or not to
   terminate the IOTP Client application immediately upon completing an
   IOTP Transaction or whether to wait until it is closed down as a
   result of, for example, user shut down or browser shut down.



5. Starting the Payment handler and Deliverer IOTP Servers

   Payment Handler and Deliverer IOTP Servers are started by receiving
   an IOTP Message which contains:

   -- for a Payment handler, a Payment Request Block, and

   -- for a Deliverer, a Delivery Request Block



6. Security Considerations

   Security of Internet Open Trade Protocol messages is primarily
   dependent on signatures within IOTP as described in [draft-ietf-
   trade-iotp-v1.0-protocol-*.txt] and [draft-ietf-trade-iotp-v1.0-
   dsig-*.txt].

   Note that the security of payment protocols transported by IOTP is
   the responsibility of those payment protocols, NOT of IOTP.



7. IANA Considerations

   This specification defines the application/iotp mime type which is
   thereby reserved.






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References

   RFC 1738 - "Uniform Resource Locators (URL)", T. Berners-Lee, L.
   Masinter & M.  McCahill. December 1994.

   RFC 1945 - "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0", T. Berners-Lee,
   R.  Fielding & H. Frystyk. May 1996.

   RFC 2068 - "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", R. Fielding, J.
   Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, T. Berners-Lee. January 1997.

   RFC 2119 - S. Bradner, "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
   Requirement Levels", March 1997.

   RFC 2246 - "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0", T. Dierks, C. Allen.
   January 1999.

   RFC 2376 - "XML Media Types", E. Whitehead, M. Murata. July 1998.

   draft-ietf-trade-iotp-v1.0-protocol-*.txt - David Burdett

   draft-ietf-trade-iotp-v1.0-dsig-*.txt - Kent Davidson



Authors Addresses

   Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
   IBM
   65 Shindegan Hill Road
   Carmel, NY 10512 USA

   Telephone:   +1 914-276-2668(h)
                +1 914-784-7913(w)

   FAX:         +1 914-784-3833(w)

   email:       dee3@us.ibm.com


   Chris J. Smith
   Royal Bank of Canada
   277 Front Street West
   Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A4 CANADA

   Telephone: +1 416-348-6090
   FAX:       +1 416-348-2210
   email:     chris.smith@royalbank.com




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Expiration and File Name

   This draft expires August 1999.

   Its file name is draft-ietf-trade-iotp-http-01.txt.















































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