RE: Review of Payment Apps Proposal

On Thursday, April 21, 2016 10:44 AM, Manu Sporny wrote:
> On 04/21/2016 01:29 PM, Dave Longley wrote:
> > On 04/21/2016 11:51 AM, Manu Sporny wrote:
> >> I disagree strongly. I don't think it's okay for the registration
> >> API to be separate from the browser API. Registration ensures that
> >> we have a level playing field, and without it only the browser
> >> vendors provide the mechanism for registering payment apps. To put
> >> this another way, I don't think any API (either browser or HTTP)
> >> should go to REC w/o registration also going to REC at the same
> >> time.
> >
> > To be clear, if the browser API specs are split into registration
> > and payment request, my assumption is that the payment request spec
> > would have a normative dependency on registration. It seems like the
> > details of how you pass payment request data to a Web-based payment
> > app are inextricably linked with registration of said payment app.
> 
> Agree w/ this general approach.
> 
> If there is a normative requirement for the Registration API spec on the
> Browser API spec, then I'd be okay with that because that would create a
> level playing field as long as the browser manufacturers are willing to
> have that requirement.
> 
> What I'm wondering is if Microsoft or Google are okay with that
> normative dependency structure?

No, in fact I've argued for the opposite. It's entirely reasonable for us
to develop v2 of a registration API without having to go back and change
a dependency in the Payment Request API. They should be independent so
that they can proceed independently.

Cheers,

Adrian.

Received on Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:51:47 UTC