Re: Web Payments Working Group in 2018

+1 - these are excellent goals.

On 1/24/18 2:06 PM, Bhattacharjee, Manash wrote:
> Hi Nick/Chairs
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> Sounds like a progressive set of objectives for the Working Group to aim
> for in 2018. Mastercard team will continue to collaborate with the
> members of the group on making a significant contribution.
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> Regards
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> Manash
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> *From: *"Telford-Reed, Nick" <Nick.Telford-Reed@worldpay.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 5:46 PM
> *To: *Payments WG Public <public-payments-wg@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Web Payments Working Group in 2018
> *Resent-From: *<public-payments-wg@w3.org>
> *Resent-Date: *Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 5:46 PM
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> Adrian, Ian and I have been discussing a vision for the Working Group's
> activity over the coming 12 months which we’re keen to share with you
> and discuss on the mailing list and the 25 January teleconference.
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> The big themes for 2018 are payment request and payment handler
> adoption, security, and payment method innovation.
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> As ever, we’d love to hear your views – please let us know how you’d
> like to see the group focused in 2018.
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> Payment Request Adoption
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> Implementation of Payment Request API and deployment in software
> libraries continues. We are keen to gain more experience and work on
> merchant adoption. From a specification perspective, we anticipate that
> Payment Request API and Payment Method Identifiers will advance to
> Recommendation mid-year.
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> Payment Handler Adoption
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> We’re really keen to see increased deployment experience of our
> specifications, especially payment handler and its related specs, as we
> feel that third-party web apps is a key enabler of the vision of a
> payments ecosystem for the open web. We hope to see more browser
> implementation of Payment Handler API in 2018 as well as greater
> experimentation on the payment handler side of the API. Ideally, that
> specification will advance to Candidate Recommendation later in the year.
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> Security
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> We have a tremendous opportunity to enhance security through Payment
> Request API. We hope to rapidly advance work around enhancements to the
> feature set, for example in Encryption, Tokenisation and 3D Secure.
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> We also look forward to working more closely with the Web Authentication
> Working Group, as their specification plays an important role in
> reducing payment fraud and enhancing Web security generally.
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> Payment Method Innovation
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> We'd also like to see progress around credit transfers and start new
> discussions on topics such as Interledger and cryptocurrency
> integration. We look forward to seeing new payment method specifications
> emerge.
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> Thanks
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> Nick (on behalf of the chairs)
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