- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:14:34 +0100
- To: public-webpayments@w3.org
On 15/04/14 15:57, Dave Longley wrote: > On 04/14/2014 08:07 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote: >> http://iiw.idcommons.net/OpenID_the_Nascar_Problem_Revisited >> >> Is this something the Web Payment CG has looked into? >> > Yes, it's been on the radar for quite some time now and we've had a > number of different conversations about it. This includes (at least) > talking about integrating Web Payment Providers with Web Intents (or > similar), using navigator.registerProtocolHandler, and using the > approach outlined in one of Manu's blog posts here: > > http://manu.sporny.org/2014/credential-based-login/ > > With credential-based login, a browser API (that can be shimmed using > JS+telehash) could be made available to vendor sites that would > automatically determine the user's IdP which could, in turn, be queried > for their Web Payments provider. Web Intents is currently stalled, but there is some hope yet for a similar approach, e.g. Mozilla's Web Activities. However, it may also be practical to have a domain specific solution for payments. Web Intents assumes the browser plays the role of broker between providers and consumers of services. Synchronization across personal devices is devolved to the proprietary synchronization mechanisms provided for browsers from the same vendor. Wallets offer a richer solution for the intermediary between web applications requesting payments, and payment solution providers, and open the way to a richer user experience and compelling value added services. There is a lot of work on wallets, but right now, web pages are strongly coupled to wallets, so we have a NASCAR problem for web developers in listing all of the wallets and all of the independent payment solutions that the web site supports. This points to the need for an open standard that decouples web pages from wallets and payment solutions, and which minimally constrains how wallets and payment solutions are implemented, e.g. locally or cloud-based. -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
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