VOTE: Adopt Web Commerce API as work item?

This vote is being held to determine whether or not the Web Commerce API
should be included as a work item for the Web Payments Community Group.
Any Web Payments Community Group member can vote and will have until
March 8th to submit their vote. The decision will be made by a simple
majority (>50%) vote. Here's the link to the poll:

http://www.addpoll.com/msporny/survey/adopt-web-commerce-api

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The Web Commerce API is a proposal to standardize the payment request
and a digital receipt format. The technology is designed such that
closed payment solutions (like PayPal, Google Wallet, etc.) and more
open payment solutions (Bitcoin, Ripple, PaySwarm) can use the same
mechanism to initiate and complete a payment.

You can view the discussion that led to this vote here:

https://web-payments.org/minutes/2014-02-19/#topic-4

This API enables a web application to initiate payment for a product or
service by calling a navigator.transact.pay() method. The implementation
of this feature is expected to be provided by a JavaScript polyfill at
first, and if deployment is successful, native browser implementations
will eventually surface to enhance usability and transaction security.

Specifically, the proposal would standardize the payment request format
(payment initiation) and the digital receipt format (proof of purchase).

https://web-payments.org/specs/source/web-commerce-api/

-- manu

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Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
blog: The Worlds First Web Payments Workshop
http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/

Received on Sunday, 23 February 2014 02:21:48 UTC