Electronic Commerce Framework

•E-Commerce application will be built on the existing technology infrastructure

ØA myriad of computers

ØCommunication networks

ØCommunication software

•Common business services for facilitating the buying and selling process

•Messaging & information distribution as a means of sending and retrieving information

•Multimedia content & network publishing, for creating a product & a means to communicate about it

•The information superhighway- the very foundation-for providing the high way system along which all e-commerce must travel

•The two pillars supporting all e-commerce applications & infrastructure

•Any successful e-commerce will require the I-way infrastructure in the same way that regular commerce needs

•I-way will be a mesh of interconnected data highways of many forms

Ø    Telephone ,wires ,cable TV wire

Ø     Radio-based wireless-cellular & satellite

•Movies=video + audio

•Digital games=music + video + software

•Electronic books=text + data + graphics + music + photographs + video

•In the electronic ‘highway system’ multimedia content is stores in the form of electronic documents

•These are often digitized

 On the I-way messaging software fulfills the role, in any no. of forms: e-mail, EDI, or point-to-point file transfers

§Encryption & authentication methods to ensure security

§Electronic payment schemes developed to handle complex transactions

These logistics issues are difficult in long-established transportation