IFX Forum Votes at July Meeting to Develop Version 1.6 of IFX Standard, Including ISTH Core Payment Kernel.FALLS CHURCH Falls Church, independent city (1990 pop. 9,578), NE Va., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; inc. as a town 1875, as a city 1948. There is diverse light manufacturing, including telecommunications equipment. , Va. -- Bankers Association of Republic of China to Join Steering Committee steer·ing committee n. A committee that sets agendas and schedules of business, as for a legislative body or other assemblage. steering committee Noun The Interactive Financial eXchange (IFX IFX - ["Type Reconstruction with First-Class Polymorphic Values", J. O'Toole et al, SIGPLAN Notices 24(7):207-217 (Jul 1989)]. ) Forum has voted to create an additional version of its IFX standard, before it completes work on Version 2.0. The interim version will be denoted Version 1.6, and it will contain the XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. core payment kernel developed by the ISTH ISTH International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (Carrboro, North Carolina) ISTH Interamerican Society for Tropical Horticulture initiative earlier this year, delivering on the Forum's commitment issued in June. The Forum expects to ratify 1.6 early in the third quarter of 2004. The IFX Forum is a not-for-profit standards-developing organization working to develop a robust framework for the electronic business-to-business exchange of data among financial service institutions around the world. The announcement was made at the IFX Forum's quarterly members meeting, held in Washington, D.C. at the end of July. Work on IFX Version 2.0, an adaptation of the IFX infrastructure to support Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. standards, will continue in parallel with Version 1.6. "We wanted to move forward quickly to include the ISTH core payment kernel in the IFX specification," said Richard P. Urban, IFX Forum President. "At our members meeting, we identified a way to accomplish this sooner rather than later, and we are looking forward to delivering Version 1.6 well before Thanksgiving." Also at this meeting, the Forum invited the Bankers Association of the Republic of China (BAROC BAROC Basic Recorder of Objects in C ) to designate a representative to serve on its governing body Noun 1. governing body - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he , the Steering Committee. BAROC has been a member of the IFX Forum since 2000. The Taiwan group's participation on the Steering Committee emphasizes the international scope of the Forum's activities and membership. The group also set the schedule for the next year's quarterly face-to-face meetings: October 26-28, 2004 in Miami, Florida “Miami” redirects here. For the Native American tribe, see Miami tribe. Miami is a major city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. It is the county seat of Miami-Dade County. Miami is a gamma world city with an estimated population of 404,048. ; January 10-14, 2005, in Phoenix, Arizona April 25-29, 2005 in Toronto, Ontario (Annual Meeting); and July 25-29, 2005 in Seattle, Washington. These meetings are an important platform for the Forum's working groups' accomplishments, though activity continues in between meetings by other means. The meetings are also an opportunity for prospective members to experience the work of the Forum, before formally joining. As meeting dates approach, details will be available at www.ifxforum.org. About the IFX Forum Membership in the IFX Forum is open to anyone interested in contributing to the development of open financial standards that harness the power of XML. The IFX Forum is currently organized into the following Working Groups: ATM/POS; Business Banking; Electronic Bill Presentment & Payment; and Web Services. IFX Forum Working Groups, in concert with an Architecture Committee to coordinate their efforts, develop open Internet-compatible messages for all sectors of the financial services industry. To learn more about IFX Forum standards or the benefits of IFX Forum membership, please visit www.IFXForum.org. |
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