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EPAS
EPAS (Electronic Protocols Application Software) is a non-commercial cooperation initiative launched in Europe which aims at developing a series of data protocols to be applied in a point of interaction (POI) environment.
The project intends to address the three following protocols :
- a terminal management protocol;
- a retailer application protocol;
- an acquirer protocol.
The main objectives common to the three protocols are:
- protocol interoperability : each protocol is designed in such a way as to be independent of the external device and the POI;
- independence of the system architecture and the integration level of the POI within the retailer application protocol;
- independence of the communication support and low level protocols : each protocol is independent of the network connection and will address both wire and wireless connections.