[uf-new] Bank Account numbers

[Thom Shannon]

has this been discussed before? I did have a look but couldn't find 
anything.

I think it would be useful to have a way to markup bank account numbers, 
they're usually made up of a couple of constituent parts like sort code 
and account number (vary between countries). Since the growth of online 
banking people are increasingly using bank transfers to move money 
between friends and pay for goods and services (this is certainly true 
in the UK at least). A microformat for account numbers would allow 
people to act on the data in a page and avoid the terrible consequences 
of getting a bank account number wrong! This could function as an 
extension to the hCard format or stand alone, similar to adr.

I've not found any solutions already out there, it occured that a bank 
account URL format would be very useful but the finance industry isn't 
usually

What do people think? Is there enough of a pattern in account number 
formats that we could have a simple standard. Is this a problem that 
Microformats should solve? Should I just go away? :)