Re: Transition Request for 3 Payments Specifications

On 19 April 2016 at 19:18, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> On 04/19/2016 01:05 PM, Ian Jacobs wrote:
> >> This is sloppy. Short names hang out in TR space forever. Let's
> >> pick better ones if we don't like the current ones.
> >
> > We can and should revisit this as the set of our specifications
> > evolves.
>
> Yes, but that's not what I was trying to say. We should pick new
> shortnames before we're locked into them and we pollute W3C TR space.
>
> Not standing in the road for this one, I know many people want to just
> get on with publishing these documents, but 'payment-request-api' is not
> particularly good especially because we know there is another "payment
> request" API coming down the pipe.
>

+1 why not spend a bit of time (say a week) picking good names now

Then leaving open the door for change later, if necessary


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