- From: Shane McCarron <shane@halindrome.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 19:27:24 -0600
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: Web Payments Working Group <public-payments-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAJdbnOBK4jeqAGvv+rZNyo6-57BBbnEkzxxjUG6e4kiR7JKB1g@mail.gmail.com>
Thank you for doing this, Ian. I will dig through it over the weekend. I like the name change especially. On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > At yesterday’s meeting [1] i volunteered to reread the Architecture wiki > [2] and the draft > architecture spec [3]. I have a goal of getting the architecture spec into > shape so that > we can publish it as a FPWD the first week of April. > > To that end, I edited it to make it align more with what is in the wiki. I > welcome feedback on the > updated draft [3]. > > The three main parts of the document are now: > > * An overview of the anticipated user experience. Some of this is covered > in the wiki, but in more > detail than I think we need in the spec. > * The “components” that emerge from the user experience. > * The organization of the specifications that together (will) describe > interactions among these > components. > > I also made it clearer in this draft that the “payment request > architecture” is not the only thing > that the WG is developing. To that end, I have also updated the title, now > "Payment Request API > Architecture”. The purpose of the spec, therefore, is narrowly to explain > how the associated specifications > (for payment method identifiers, payment request API, etc.) fit together. > It is not a description of > a complete or comprehensive payment architecture for the Web. > > The spec still needs work, but I wanted to share this direction with > people to see if there is > support. > > If we decide to publish this as a FPWD, I would like to then update the > Wiki to prune away > some material (and refer instead to the spec). > > After this exercise I am more confident that the two resources are in > alignment, and that > we can reduce redundancy by editing the wiki as the next step. > > Ian > > [1] https://www.w3.org/2016/03/10-wpwg-minutes#item01 > [2] > https://github.com/w3c/webpayments/wiki/A-Payments-Initiation-Architecture-for-the-Web > [3] https://w3c.github.io/browser-payment-api/specs/architecture.html > > — > Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs > Tel: +1 718 260 9447 > > > > -- -Shane
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