- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:31:13 -0500
- To: Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
On 03/03/2013 09:02 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > 1. I presume hash based currencies will be supported, I use the > 'facebook' style of https://w3id.org/currencies/USD# > <https://w3id.org/currencies/USD> (note the trailing hash) this is > to distinguish the document from the currency and also future proof > allowing extra subjects to reside in that document. Yes, hashes in currencies are just fine. So, this is perfectly valid: http://example.org/myapp#credits PaySwarm treats the identifier opaquely, but expects Currency Mint endpoint information to exist at the currency URL (such as where do I go to get new units of this currency). As far as distinguishing the Document from the currency, we're delving into HTTP Range-14 territory, but we never really liked the solution proposed by the TAG for that. Our interpretation of URLs on the Web can be summarized like this: You don't know if a URL is for a document or a resource of another nature (like a currency) until you dereference the URL. Once you get a representation, check the representation to find out the "rdf:type". This avoids all the crazy 30x redirection that HTTP Range 14 requires and is a fairly straight-forward way of figuring out what a resource on the Web is. One could go a step further and do one of two things: 1. If a resource doesn't have an rdf:type on the Web, you can assume it's a document, or 2. If a resource doesn't have an rdf:type on the Web, you can't assume anything about its type other than by inference. ... leaning more toward the latter than the former. > 2. I'm interested in how to model a current or new currency, first > question is what is @type? We'll add a new class to the Commerce Vocabulary for "Currency". So, the full URL for the type would be: https://w3id.org/commerce#Currency -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Aaron Swartz, PaySwarm, and Academic Journals http://manu.sporny.org/2013/payswarm-journals/
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