Re: Release of PaySwarm Payment Processor (p3)

Thanks to you and to Digital Bazaar for this development.

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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> Today, Digital Bazaar is making a public commitment to implement
> standards-track specifications that may be generated by the Web Payments
> Activity at W3C[1]. We are doing this for a number of reasons:
>
> 1. To do our part to ensure that the Web Payments Activity is
>    successful by providing half of the required implementations
>    necessary to reach W3C Recommendation status.
>
> 2. To send a strong signal to financial organizations that there will
>    be an implementation for them to integrate into their systems when
>    the technologies are ratified.
>
> 3. To be transparent about how the technology works by providing source
>    code access to our implementations.
>
> 4. To help spur more R&D in this area by providing a platform for
>    hobbyists and researchers to experiment with Web Payments
>    technologies.
>
> We are accomplishing the above by releasing two of our core products to
> Github under a non-commercial license (free to use for
> hacking/research/trial purposes).
>
> The first is called Bedrock[1], which helps organizations build the
> server-side and client-side portions of REST API-driven modern Web apps.
> It has useful built-ins like user account management, strong
> cryptography support, Denial-of-Service protection, digital signature
> support, native JSON-LD support in MongoDB, and many other built-in
> features (runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows):
>
> https://github.com/digitalbazaar/bedrock#bedrock
>
> The second is called p3 (the PaySwarm Payment Processor), which is built
> on top of Bedrock. P3 is a Web application and REST API service that can
> be used to deploy Web Payments as a Service (WPaaS) for banks, financial
> institutions, and individuals that want to manage their own financial
> resources:
>
> https://github.com/digitalbazaar/p3#payswarm-payment-processor-p3
>
> The p3 code base is the software that powers https://dev.payswarm.com/.
> It implements many of the specifications that the JSON-LD CG, the Web
> Payments CG, and the Credentials CG have been working on for the past
> few years. From this day on, all development on these two projects will
> happen via the public Github repositories.
>
> I'd like to make it clear that these two code bases are not being
> released as open source software; it's non-commercial software. While we
> do release quite a bit of software as open source, the reasons we chose
> to do this release under a non-commercial license can be found here:
>
>
> https://github.com/digitalbazaar/bedrock/blob/master/FAQ.md#is-bedrock-open-source
>
> There is still quite a bit of work to do on the two software projects
> above, but we wanted to release the source code sooner than later so
> that others may use it to perform research and play around with the
> various experimental Community Group specifications. We hope this
> release will be a positive contribution towards the Web Payments
> Activity. I'll stop here and respond to any questions the group may have
> about this release. Thoughts?
>
> -- manu
>
> [1] To be clear, there currently are no standards-track specifications
> related to Web Payments yet, but based on the current trajectory of the
> Web Payments Interest Group, Digital Bazaar expects there to be a number
> of them over the next few years.
>
> --
> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: The Marathonic Dawn of Web Payments
> http://manu.sporny.org/2014/dawn-of-web-payments/
>
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