- From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:27:06 +0200
- To: Tim Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
- CC: Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
On 2014-04-11 09:32, Tim Holborn wrote: > Anders, > > cheer-up… :-) :-) > I imagine the thing can be NFC / 2D Barcode (QR-code (for example) compliant? This scheme is web-based. Assuming that you can receive a URL with (for example) a payment request over NFC it is compliant. > > Have you spoken to melvin about it? Not yet. > Why not chrome too? It is a resource issue. I'm essentially only *one* person :-) In addition, Google have a magnitude more resources to throw on things they find useful than Mozilla. If they Google don't find a thing useful they won't accept it either even if it is free, tested etc. > What’s the best forum to continue the discussion..? I don't anticipate any discussions on this thing until it is shipping. Mozilla have declared that they are uninterested discussing specs, they want code. There are also very few people who have the technical background needed to understand why you cannot directly expose a smart card to the web. W3C is trying to do that: http://opoto.github.io/secure-element and IMO this scheme suffers from a truckload of issues as well as no voiced support from "the big three". > does this relate specifically to web-payments? > sounds like a WebID Related method to me… This is thing. Universal often means "useless for all" but I believe this scheme actually is equally useful for payments as for WebID. > does this mean i’m the first moral contributor?> :) Indeed it does :-) Anders > > On 11 Apr 2014, at 6:25 pm, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Pardon me if I have used too much list bandwidth to express my somewhat pessimistic >> view on W3C's ability "upgrading" the payment world. >> >> To make you feel slightly happier (?), I can report that I'm in the *very* early phases of >> implementing a browser extension in Firefox which combines smart card technology >> and Web Crypto which have multiple uses including payments: >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=978867 >> >> This project has to date no moral, monetary, or technical support from anybody. >> I haven't even been able to get constructive feedback on the concept itself. >> >> My hope is that Mozilla will include the code (when ready...) in the shipping browser >> but this is one of the many hurdles we are facing today: Browser vendor support. >> Open Source is by no means a guarantee for success! >> >> Cheers >> Anders >> >
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