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Internet Financial EXchange (IFEX) Protocol

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Internet Financial EXchange (IFEX) Protocol

The Internet Financial Exchange (IFEX) protocol facilitates the description, negotiation and management of economic transactions.

The protocol utilizes, references and complements the following proposals:

  • IIBAN: internet international bank account numbers
  • IMIC: internet market identification
  • X-ISO4217-A3: registry of unofficial ISO-compatible asset type codepoints

Status

In development.

Documentation

  • msc/: Contains 'mscgen' (Message Sequence Chart Generator) source and illustrations with examples of proposed protocol flow. mscgen is available from http://www.mcternan.me.uk/mscgen/

  • json-schema/: Contains proposed JSON Schema for various message types/elements. These are also hosted at http://schema.ifex-project.org/. For more information on JSON Schema, see http://json-schema.org/

  • old/: Prior documentation from initial development era ~2012.

Building

To build, just type 'make'.

Alternatively, the latest version should be available as .txt at: https://raw.github.com/globalcitizen/ifex-protocol/master/draft-ifex-00.txt

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