Re: Transclusion Transcopyright Micropayments

On 02/14/2014 02:36 PM, Joseph Potvin wrote:
> From what I have noticed so far, the current interest of a few major
>  publishers in W3C-related Web Payments work is to implement 
> micropayments for the viewing of whole pages. Is there also an 
> expressed demand at this time for transclusion-based micropayments 
> towards transcopyright?

None that I've seen, though it is on our radar.

> And does it imply any particular requirements for an eventual WP
> spec to ensure that transclusion-related payments are natively
> supported?

The only thing we need to do is ensure that arbitrary payees can be
placed into a listing. At a later point, we can introduce a listing that
allows transclusion, which would effectively just have one listing
reference a set of other listings. Those other listings would have to
have a special "allowTransclusion" payeeRule:

https://web-payments.org/specs/source/vocabs/payswarm.html#Listing

To process a transclusion-based listing, a payment processor would
process all listings referenced and produce a final price based on the
composed listing.

So we have a pretty solid technical plan, but until we have a basic Web
payments mechanism, working on this is premature. :)

-- manu

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http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/

Received on Friday, 21 February 2014 12:18:03 UTC