- From: Anders Rundgren via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 05:14:51 +0000
- To: public-web-nfc@w3.org
cyberphone has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/web-nfc: == Payments - An Invalid Use Case == If you read this document http://w3c.github.io/web-nfc/index.html#payment-scenarios you can get the impression that a future revision could support payments. This is incorrect, NFC based payments are currently based on low-level card protocols that were _not designed for the Web_. In addition, Mobile "Wallets" are exclusively based on native applications. It will stay like that since there is no "AndroidKeystore" for the Web. Efforts for creating such features have been going on since 2011 but have to date always failed, most recently in https://www.w3.org/community/hb-secure-services/ The only way Web NFC could ever support payments would be through entirely new schemes but no such activity seems to be in the workings. Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/web-nfc/issues/131 using your GitHub account
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