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Electronic Interconnection Standards for E-Commerce
Published
Author(s)
Michael McLay
Abstract
The IPC Data Transfer Solutions (DTS) committee has created the Electronic Interconnection Standards for E-Commerce (the IPC-2500 series) to support the industry need for standard communication protocols within an enterprise as well as between trading partners. This paper provides a brief history of the committee activities, and explanation of the methodology behind the standards effort, and a status report on the standards currently included in the series. The paper concludes with a look at the future work plans of the committee.
Citation
Electronic Interconnection Standards for E-Commerce
Issue
3rd
Publisher Info
IPC (Inst for Interconnecting & Pkg Electronic Circuits), Chicago, IL
McLay, M.
(2001),
Electronic Interconnection Standards for E-Commerce, IPC (Inst for Interconnecting & Pkg Electronic Circuits), Chicago, IL
(Accessed October 18, 2025)