Re: Introducing Flex Ledger

On 3 June 2016 at 20:58, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> On 06/03/2016 01:05 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote:
> > Also, currency uri rather than literal
>
> Agreed, and apologies, the spec is still super rough. We haven't gotten
> to the point of specifying the ranges for the values. Think of the stuff
> in that spec as rough examples and not fully formed in any way.
>
> Some of the Payswarm specs alias'ed "USD" to
> "https://iso.org/currencies/USD". So developers could write "USD", and
> given the proper JSON-LD context, it would expand to
> "https://iso.org/currencies/USD".
>
> The Web Payments WG has more or less rejected Linked Data as a first
> class citizen, but we're striving hard to ensure that the Web Payments
> messages may still be Linked Data if the developer ecosystem wants it.
>
> All that to say, yes, that should probably be a Currency URI... but that
> has more to do w/ the vocabulary that's layered on top of Flex and not
> the ledger data model itself.
>

Yes, the developer eco system wants it!  As a developer Im hugely in favor
of using JSON LD / linked data for payments.


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