- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:21:23 -0500
- To: Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Background ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -- 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/
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