Background: Technologies to Consider

We want to re-use as much W3C, IETF, X9, ISO, etc. technology as we can
for the Web Payments work. I thought it might be helpful to point folks
at a few primers wrt. W3C technologies that may become foundational for
the work we're doing here.

At some point we'll have to outline a basic data format for the payment
initiation and digital receipt messages. We'll probably want that
message format to be extensible. One such W3C initiative that fits the
bill quite nicely is Linked Data:

What is Linked Data? (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_xzT5eF5Q

A specific mechanism for expressing Linked Data that would be friendly
to Web developers would be JSON-LD:

What is JSON-LD? (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioCbTo3C-4

I've been personally involved in the Linked Data initiative since 2007,
and the JSON-LD initiative since its inception. While we are many months
away from talking about technology specifics, my hope is that this group
will try to understand some of the fundamental things that are different
(in a very good way) about the way W3C approaches the creation of
technology standards wrt. other payment/financial technology standards
setting organizations. I think the way we approach representing data is
one of those key differences.

-- manu

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Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
blog: High-Stakes Credentials and Web Login
http://manu.sporny.org/2014/identity-credentials/

Received on Monday, 17 November 2014 05:57:35 UTC