Re: Markup for payable HTML resources

I would draw the dividing line between what is commonly called retail and
wholesale payments.

Retail usually consists of high volume, low value transactions which are
usually part of payment schemes that support authorisation of the payment
separately from final settlement. i.e. Many small payments are being made
at high volume, batched together and the net effect is settled between
participants on a regular basis using individual large value payments.

Wholesale is the settlement of those retail obligations but also other high
value payments that must be made between banks, corporate treasuries etc.

In terms of the W3C work I think what we're doing in the WG and CG is
predominantly focused on retail and SatoshiPay fits right in there.

Credentials is mostly retail but could have applications in the wholesale
space too especially is wholesale moved to more open infrastructure like
that proposed in the Interledger Protocol.

Interledger is mostly wholesale focused BUT, if there was a truly open
ecosystem of ledgers and connectors where access to Interledger payments
was available to the man-on-the-street I could see an open retail payment
scheme emerging that is based on ILP.


On 18 November 2015 at 18:12, Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net>
wrote:

> On 11/17/15 3:37 PM, Meinhard Benn wrote:
>  > I am the founder of SatoshiPay and we are looking at making paying for
>
>> web content as frictionless as possible for all parties involved.
>>
> [snip]
>
>> What's happening in the http://will.satoshipay.eu/ example is that
>>
>
> Fun example! Welcome. Congratulations on getting investor funding. I'll be
> interested in how your beta launch unfolds.
>
> I agree with your premise that direct sale of digital content for micro
> amounts is a potential disruptor for world information flow (publishing of
> all kinds).
>
> What occurs to me, in the context of this list and the W3C IG effort, and
> its associated Credentials effort, is that perhaps we've reached a parting
> of the ways.
>
> Specifically, my thought:
> Maybe the system that sells digital content on the web for micro-amounts
> will be so different from the one required for movements of large amounts
> of money that attempting to develop both together is unrealistic.
>
> In other words, what you're doing may be easier, you may have already done
> it, and the people in this list may be working on a substantially different
> problem.
>
> Thoughts anyone?  Have I jumped to an unwarranted conclusion?
>
>
> Steven Rowat
>
>
>
>  after
>
>> top-up the JS bitcoin wallet connects to the SatoshiPay server via
>> WebSocket, negotiates the smart contract and moves funds to a multi-sig
>> bitcoin address. With each payment the contract gets adjusted and a
>> payment certificate is issued to the client by the SatoshiPay server.
>> This certificate (currently a pre-shared secret) is shown by the client
>> to the content server, which then ships the content. At no point
>> SatoshiPay ever holds control over funds. We are merely the broker.
>>
>> Now, while the payments work fine, there are a few issues with the
>> markup above as it's neither flexible nor consistent. So that's my where
>> my question starts. My current idea is to redesign as follows:
>>
>> <div
>>    data-sp-type="text/html"
>>    data-sp-url="/paid-content/1?spCert=%s"
>>    data-sp-id="563cc11c8c823d110025e951"
>>    data-sp-currency="XBT"
>>    data-sp-price="0.00004"
>>    data-sp-length="1170"
>>
>>>
>>>
>> Improvements:
>>
>>   - there is a vendor prefix
>>   - different text types could be rendered and styled differently
>>   - the position of the SatoshiPay payment cert in the content retrieval
>>     URL can be controlled by the publisher
>>   - different currencies are supported
>>   - price denomination meets a standard
>>
>> A payable image could look like this:
>>
>> <img
>>    data-sp-type="image/png"
>>    data-sp-url="/paid-images/1?spCert=%s"
>>    data-sp-id="abcdef"
>>    data-sp-currency="XBT"
>>    data-sp-price="0.00006"
>>    height="600"
>>    width="800"
>>
>>>
>>>
>> Video/audio tags and download links would follow a similar pattern.
>>
>> So, I was wondering, did you spend some time on thinking about a
>> standard for this already? The only W3C resource I found is a retired
>> draft from 1999: http://www.w3.org/TR/Micropayment-Markup/
>>
>> On https://www.w3.org/community/webpayments/ I see a lot of JSON, but no
>> HTML markup.
>>
>> Other thoughts? Are we thinking the right direction here?
>>
>> Cheers and thanks for listening, Meinhard Benn.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>