Internet Financial EXchange (IFEX) Protocol

The Internet Financial Exchange (IFEX) protocol facilitates the description, negotiation and management of economic transactions.

The protocol utilizes, references and complements the following proposals:

• IIBAN: internet international bank account numbers
• IMIC: internet market identification
• X-ISO4217-A3: registry of unofficial ISO-compatible asset type codepoints

Status

In development.

Documentation

• msc/: Contains 'mscgen' (Message Sequence Chart Generator) source and illustrations with examples of proposed protocol flow. mscgen is available from http://www.mcternan.me.uk/mscgen/

• json-schema/: Contains proposed JSON Schema for various message types/elements. These are also hosted at http://schema.ifex-project.org/. For more information on JSON Schema, see http://json-schema.org/

• old/: Prior documentation from initial development era ~2012.

Building

To build, just type 'make'.

Alternatively, the latest version should be available as .txt at: https://raw.github.com/globalcitizen/ifex-protocol/master/draft-ifex-00.txt