Re: [w3c/browser-payment-api] Identifiers or Locators (#150)

Hi @dret,

There is a cost to maintaining any registry. The cost grows significantly when the registry owners want to keep track of things outside of their control. Furthermore, it would be a weakness in the design if there were a central point of failure around payment method identifiers.

That is why we want to decentralize their creation and enable the broad community to self organize.
I do not believe there should be a single registry.

Any entity that mints a payment method identifier should take responsibility for it, and so W3C will take responsibility for those that it mints.

We are still debating whether to have short names and how those can be managed in a decentralized fashion. 

Ian

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