- From: Eric Korb <eric.korb@accreditrust.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:16:57 -0500
- To: Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>, Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAMX+RnCPRRMS2khW0OEVmGaeNS5=1SBkcYpUOuhkCjMJiagUeg@mail.gmail.com>
Here are links for those who would like more information on Web Payments CG (http://www.w3.org/community/webpayments/), and the Credentials CG (http://www.w3.org/community/credentials/). Eric Korb, President/CEO - accreditrust.com On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote: > Today, Digital Bazaar is making a public statement of intent to > implement standards-track specifications that may be generated by the > Web Payments Activity at W3C[1] (which may include the implementation of > various Credentials CG specifications). We are doing this for a number > of reasons: > > 1. To do our part to ensure that the Web Payments Activity, > any any subsequent Credentials work, is successful by providing half > of the required implementations necessary to reach W3C > Recommendation status. > > 2. To send a strong signal to financial and credentialing 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 > and Credential 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, identity and > credentials, 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 (there is a strong credentialing component to what we're doing > here as well): > > 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 Credentials work as > well as 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 or Credentials 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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