Re: New Web Payments Architecture document proposal

> On Jun 21, 2016, at 9:06 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> 
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> This document is an attempt to summarize the architecture that we have
> as we go (not create a software architecture document).

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> 
>> * Payment Instruction
>> 
>> Not sure where this term comes from?
> 
>> From Kris and Vincent's suggestions... it's ISO20022 terminology and
> feels like it gives future WGs more breathing room than just PaymentRequest.

I agree the document can usefully summarize what “we have” (as you said
above). It undercuts that purpose to add bits that we don’t have.

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> We should trying to make sure we have a bit of leeway for other types of
> requests in the future, especially use cases like SubscriptionRequests
> (which are in our use cases for v1, btw):

We don’t have those things yet, and therefore the document should not
speak to them (yet).

> 
> https://www.w3.org/TR/web-payments-use-cases/#uc-subscription
> 
>> If your intent is to change from payment request to payment
>> instruction then I think that warrants some discussion before we
>> adopt the change.
> 
> Agreed, this is a way of raising that question.

Now we’ve changed topics. (I suggest a GitHub issue.)

Ian

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