Re: Use Cases from the W3C Web Payments Workshop

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:35:07 +0200, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca> wrote:

> RE: "in favour of the remittance use case"
>
> +1     For this reason I think "web payments" may not be the best
> title, since its nuance is on the purchase of goods/service/rights but
> does not notionally include remittances.  So far, however, I find that
> more comprehensive alternative titles are also more mundane.

Payment is giving money to someone.

But I agree that the "person to person" use case is probably the most  
important (rather than the one that can be left out for now).

Apart from anything else, it is normally pretty trivial to build a  
business payment system on top of one that works for transferring money  
between individuals. But the inverse is often not true - and specifically  
not true with most of the systems we have today.

cheers

Chaals

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