sketching out HTTP 402 workflow

Melvin,

Have a look at the flow that's been proposed in the Web Payments WG draft
charter[1]. It consists of two request response pairs to establish the
terms of the payment and complete it's execution. The primary use case
(motivated by the browser vendors who are all participating) is to exchange
these messages via a browser API but the 402 use case for web services is
not out of scope.

The intention is for the standard to be sufficiently general that both push
and pull payments will be supported. The whole flow is initiated by the
payee sending a payment initiation request document to the payer which
contains the terms of payment and a list of supported payment methods. This
could be passed as the body of the 402 response from the API as well as a
location (or other) header indicating where to POST the initiation response?

I'd be interested to see how the 402 use case could be solved using the
same set of messages and flow as the WG is planning to standardise. This
would be valuable input into the WGs work.

Adrian

[1] http://www.w3.org/2015/06/payments-wg-charter

On 27 July 2015 at 10:11, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','melvincarvalho@gmail.com');>> wrote:

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> On 27 July 2015 at 04:31, Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','steven_rowat@sunshine.net');>> wrote:
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>> On 7/26/15 2:56 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>>> You can see a demo partly completed at:
>>>
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>>> http://inartes.com/?contentURI=https:%2F%2Finartes.databox.me%2FPublic%2Fdante%2Finferno-02%23139
>>>
>>> Click on "Next Verse"
>>>
>>
>> Awesome!
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>> Just the kind of demo I've been hoping could happen for the last, oh, ten
>> years?
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>> I'm not Dante, but I certainly have lots of material I could set up with
>> something like this if/when it's operational (and/or beta).
>>
>
> Sure, actually it can already point to any text so long as it's split into
> chapters and verses.
>
> I'd like to add some more texts e.g. from
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> http://www.poetryintranslation.com/
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> And maybe finnegans wake (my favourite!) :)
>
>
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>> Is pseudo-anonymity possible (for the payee)?
>>
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> Great question.  I havent really thought this through.  But possibly yes.
> How would you imagine pseudo-anonymity to work?
>
>
>> Will accepting Bitcoin be possible? Paypal?
>>
>
> As it's decentralized, I dont decide.  Merchants and users will decide on
> the currency.  But bitcoin is the default, so far :)
>
>
>>
>> O what fun. :-)
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>> SR
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>>>
>>>     I'll be using the SoLiD framework for this.
>>>
>>>     Anyone see any obvious flaws in the workflow?
>>>
>>>     [1] https://linkeddata.github.io/SoLiD/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>


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