- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:46:43 +0200
- To: Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
Received on Thursday, 20 September 2012 09:47:13 UTC
I was looking recently at the way that paypal handle bulk payments ... a screenshot is below https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/demo/batch_format.gif <user1> <amount> <currency> <user2> <comment> I realized this is very close to the webcredits fields without the timestamp, and some of the meta fields (eg id, type, context, scheme) I figured this might be a nice shorthand to store IOUs e.g. on paper, or on a phone etc Alice 10 USD Bob pizza For example could be a line easily transerable to a universal webcredits format Rules: Alice -> Is looked up to go from a local identifier to a universal on processing 10 -> is validated as a float Bob -> Is looked up to go from a local identifier to a universal on processing pizza -> is processed for escaped characters and recorded as a string Two questions 1. Which delimiter to use, or leave it open as per csv 2. Add timestamp as optional or just take it from the file?
Received on Thursday, 20 September 2012 09:47:13 UTC