Re: [webpayments] Should a Payment Request API have shipping address APIs? (#39)

A priori, there is no reason a payment system needs to know anything about shipping.  Also, there is an improvement in user privacy in shipping information is not communicated to the merchant unless the user deems it necessary and not sent earlier than necessary.  

There is nothing that prevents a web shop from achieving the best of both worlds by offering a cart and shipping bar where users saw information like the value in their cart and shipping if know.  And users could enter a fragment of the shipping information needed to compute shipping costs.  I doubt payment needs to impact that flow however. 

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Received on Sunday, 20 December 2015 13:56:09 UTC