[Action-54] Glossary revision

Dear all,

As you may have noticed, re-drafting of the [Glossary] has been limited to the posting of the two diagrams we discussed in Utrecht:
https://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/wiki/Context


Action-54 states to "Revise the glossary per the discussion at the f2f, and let us know when season opens on comments”.
We discussed the Glossary on Feb 2, 2015 (see Glossary<http://www.w3.org/2015/02/02-wpay-minutes#item06>) in the minutes.

The F2F minutes state my intentions at that point in time:

  *   A couple of slides - putting the roles into context - three and four corner models
  *   I wanted to organize use cases w/ examples on major steps. The phases of the payment transaction
This was geared towards a more compact Glossary, identifying the “key terminology” to understand the “basic payment flow”  on which the "use cases" elaborate further and the "payment agent" architecture implements.

During the last weeks, I did not deliver the texts I hoped to do - but Ian filled this gap with the description of flow in a customer/merchant transaction<http://www.w3.org/2015/Talks/ij-usecases/>
and the Single Narrative for Web Payments Use Cases on http://www.w3.org/2015/02/wpay-sample.html


In the Flow descriptions, slide 5 (http://www.w3.org/2015/Talks/ij-usecases/?full#5) and further give a nice listing of basic terminology.
The terminology stated there is used in the Use Cases Editor’s Draft and should be the right selection.

Now, for the Glossary, we could come to a cross reference of these basic terms and relate these to “technological”  definitions referring to existing definitions as these exist in payment scheme documentation etcetera. This is a mapping and validation exercise for the “working terms” we use in the Use Cases and Payment Agent documents (and further TF documents, such as the settlement work).

My questions at this point in time:

  *   Should we transform the Glossary in the "cross-reference" approach between the “working terms” and “industry terms”?
  *   Can we reduce the Glossary to only terms referenced via the “working terms”  for Use Cases, Payment Agent, etc?
  *   What shall we do with the diagram on the extended four corner model? (https://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/wiki/File:Extended_four_corner_model.png)

Transaction Steps
As for the other diagram, the “Economic Transaction Steps” (https://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/wiki/File:Economic_Transaction_Steps.png)
This subject seems to be superseded by the four steps of the payment flow as now described in http://www.w3.org/2015/Talks/ij-usecases/?full#7:

Negotiation of Purchase Terms; Negotiation of Payment Instruments; Payment Processing; Delivery of Product/Receipt

The diagram which was presented in Utrecht now seems superfluous.
The different elements of this diagram should be addressed in chapter 2 (The Phases of a Payment) of the Use Cases document.

As I distinguished between “Purchase”, “Value Added Services”  and “Payment”, I suggested a separation in what type of information is required for the different steps. At “Purchase” (Negotiation of Purchase Terms; Negotiation of Payment Instruments), two sets of data orginate: the “order lines” (what have been bought) and a “smart contract”  which may just be the price, but can be much more elaborate. Now, the “order lines”  were only used for “value added service”  processing (where negotiation of marketing terms happens) - but would NOT be required for the actual “payment processing”.

This “separation of concerns”  is, in my opinion not (yet) addressed in the Use Cases - but is relevant for privacy matters.

  *   Is this something to be addressed further? Where would be the best place?

Regards,

Evert

PS – this message was sent a bit earlier from my gmail account, but that was not yet known to w3c, it occurs.
So we may end up with twice the message in the mail archive – sorry for that!


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