Charter: 3.2 Optional Deliverables

Dear list,
I have a few questions regarding the topic above.

http://www.w3.org/2015/06/payments-wg-charter.html

Card Payments Recommendation
A very large proportion of payments on the Web are conducted using payment cards from one of the global card schemes.  The group should attempt to define a standardized specialization of the payment flow specifically for payment cards.

[AR] Great!  Are there any known people working on this right now?

- Demonstrate how a debit-pull digital payment scheme should be implemented using Web Payments APIs.

[AR] Why bother with pull?  Pull is (using current card technology) entirely dependent on centralized payment processors and tokenization providers which IMHO is the "old" way of doing things. I have just finished a prototype of a push-based Web Payment system which will published in September for general evaluation.  It supports several cool things (which current card-based schemes do not) that become close to trivial when you have a digital wallet.

- Standardize a common approach for payment card schemes globally to kick-start adoption of Web Payments APIs.

[AR] If you rather settle for push you could target a much wider range of Web Payments including popular schemes like the Dutch IDEAL.

Anders
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https://github.com/cyberphone/web2native-bridge/blob/master/webpayment.client/src/org/webpki/w2nb/webpayment/client/Wallet.java

Received on Tuesday, 18 August 2015 05:39:51 UTC