Re: FYI: Proposal for a "Web Payments Digital Product Management API"

+Liquan (Max) Gu <maxlg@google.com> is also involved in this work and would
appreciate feedback.

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 3:20 PM Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> wrote:

> Dear Web Payments Working Group,
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> I came upon a somewhat recent proposal within the Web Incubator Community
> Group for a "Web Payments Digital Product Management API” that would work
> in conjunction with Payment Request. Here’s the proposal from Matt Giuca
> (of the Chrome Team):
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> https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-web-payments-digital-product-management-api/4350
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> Problem statement:
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>    "The problem we are trying to solve is that Payment Request by itself
> is inadequate for making in-app purchases in existing digital stores,
> because that API simply asks the user to make a payment of a certain amount
> (e.g., “Please authorize a transaction of US$3.00”), which is sufficient
> for websites selling their own products, but established digital
> distribution services require apps to make purchases by product IDs, not
> monetary amounts (e.g., “Please authorize the purchase of SHINY_SWORD”);
> the price being configured per-region on the backend.”
>
> Matt Giuca raised an issue on the Payment Request API that would make the
> proposal easier to integrate:
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>  Make "total" and "details" optional
>  https://github.com/w3c/payment-request/issues/912
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> I’m sure Matt would appreciate feedback on either or both of the proposal
> and the pull request. Thanks!
>
> Ian
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