Re: User Payment Scheme Registration description in charter

> On Jun 21, 2015, at 11:00 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm concerned with the description of the "User Payment Scheme
> Registration" deliverable in the draft charter at:
> https://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/wiki/Roadmap/PaymentArchitectureWG
> (which has shifted a bit over the past week, during the face-to-face
> meeting).
> 
> It currently [1] says:
>  #  User Payment Scheme Registration: Best practices that should be
>  #  followed by the User Agent for the payer to register and
>  #  unregister payment schemes and the payment instruments that
>  #  implement them.
> 
> Defining only best practices doesn't seem sufficient; I think there
> does need to be technical specification work here.  Otherwise it's
> not clear to me how the system is open to either multiple browsers
> or multiple payment providers.
> 
> (I'm not saying that it's clear to me exactly how to describe that
> work, though.)

Hi David, I will mark this as an open issue in the charter to be discussed by the IG.

Ian

> 
> -David
> 
> [1] current version URL is:
> https://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/wiki/index.php?title=Roadmap/PaymentArchitectureWG&oldid=1995
> 
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