Prediction about new credit card number scheme

[Thomas Grant Edwards <tedwards@Glue.umd.edu>]

>By JOHN MARKOFF AN FRANCISCO -- 
>Hoping to remove a major impediment to credit card transactions over the
>Internet, a business group led by Mastercard International and Visa
>International plans to announce an industry-standard technology Thursday
>for protecting the security of electronic payments. 

My prediction about the new CC standard:  it will be a mistake if they 
don't pass on the details to cypherpunks.

BTW - are any micropayment schemes reving up to commerciality yet???

-Thomas