Re: Call for Consensus to Publish Two Candidate Recommendations - RESPONSE REQUESTED by 26 July 2017

> On Jul 26, 2017, at 8:46 AM, Jean-Yves Rossi <jean-yves.rossi@cantonconsulting.fr> wrote:
> 
> CANTON support both proposals but would like to highlight that depriving the payee (e.g. the merchant) of the ability to define a preference or to steer payers to the use of the payment instrument the payee prefers, will hinder the use of the APIs in the EU.
> 
> About PMI, we wish that, when it will be feasible, the conditions under which PMI will be "validated, and when applicable, minted and formally registred with the W3c" could be effectively clarified.

Hi Jean-Yves,

There is no expectation that URL Payment Method Identifiers will be registered with W3C. The Web itself
is the registry and people will learn about these identifiers through SDKs, search engines, and the usual
ways.

It could be that in the very short term, to help bootstrap the ecosystem, we provide some information
about known PMIs on the developer portal. But I would not want to do that for very long (due to 
the potential for perception of bias, as well as the maintenance cost). We can discuss this further,
but I think it has no bearing on the specification itself.

Ian

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Received on Wednesday, 26 July 2017 14:15:08 UTC