PCI Mobile Payment Guidelines To Not Appear Before April, And Probably Much Later
Written by Evan SchumanJune 14th, 2011
The PCI Security Standards Council's much-anticipated rules on mobile-payment issues won't happen before April of next year and will probably happen much later, according to a key member of the Council's board of advisors. Given the pace of mobile-payment deployments and trials, this timetable forces retailers to move into this crucial area without standardized guidance—and virtually guarantees a lot of expensive changes in a year, when the rules finally materialize. As of Friday (June 10), the Council had not even created the mobile-payment special interest group, which will push back the release of a mobile-payment specification at least 10 months, said Christian Janoff, a retail enterprise architect with Cisco who sits on the Council's board of advisors.
This information is actually good news for retail IT for two reasons. By eliminating the possibility that mobile payment is imminent and by offering a "no sooner than" timetable, retailers are freed up to pursue various mobile-payment schemes without worrying about immediate change demands. The second reason this is good news is pragmatic.
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