Re: RFC: Browser Payments API Proposal

Hey Zach,

Thanks for putting this together. It's great to get a host of submissions
so we can look at the problem from different perspectives.

I am going to suggest we discuss the proposal on the WPICG forum so that
the audience (and potential contributors) is greater.

Adrian

On 17 September 2015 at 02:18, Zach Koch <zkoch@google.com> wrote:

> Hi Web Payments IG -
>
> I wanted to let everyone know that we recently released an explainer doc
> for a new web payments API proposal, paymentRequest, to the Web Platform
> Incubation CG <https://www.w3.org/community/wicg/> for consideration:
>
> http://discourse.wicg.io/t/rfc-proposal-for-new-web-payments-api/1100/1
>  [1]
>
> We welcome comments, questions, and suggestions on the proposal. While it
> would be preferred to keep the discussion inside of the Discourse thread,
> please of course feel free to reply to this email directly as well.
>
> A couple of important things to note: 1.) This is not meant to be a spec.
> It's just meant to be a proposal for an API that we could build, so it's
> lacking some necessary detail. 2.) We do include an API for dealing with
> shipping options. While this is not currently in the charter, the more I
> think about the problem, the more essential I believe this step is. The API
> is designed, however, such that shipping could be left out. 3.) The
> proposal is similar in some ways to what Manu proposed
> <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2015Sep/0002.html> last
> week, but with key some differences. The name similarity is purely
> coincidental. :)
>
> Our hope is that this work, while it starts within the incubation group,
> will get merged into the WG when it's formed. Putting it in the Incubation
> CG now allows it to be seen and vetted by a lot of good, smart people.
>
> For those who aren't yet familiar with the Web Platform Incubation CG,
> it's a community group that "provides a lightweight venue for proposing and
> discussing new web platform features" and is quite active. They have a full
> blog post available explaining it:
> http://www.w3.org/blog/2015/07/moving-the-web-platform-forward/
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zach
>
> [1] The explainer doc is also up on Github if you wish to fork or submit
> pull requests:
> https://github.com/zkoch/paymentrequest/blob/master/explainer.md
>