Re: Deprecation Warnings for currencies used in transaction?

Elf, An initiative such as WebPayments can enable user choice in currency
and indexing for transaction purposes, but cannot stray into the
opinion-based role of issuing "warnings" about exchange rate fluctuations,
nor even into the realm of generating neutral indicators, since there are
plenty of existing sources for that information.

Here's the current draft summary of for how pricing indices could be
handled.
https://web-payments.org/specs/source/web-price-indexes/

Note that the indices themselves (incl. exchange rates) are external to the
WebPayments work, however the WebPayment system would enable users to
select and apply their preferred indices (incl user-defined). It would
remain out-of-scope for the WebPayment system to second-guess user choices
with warnings.

Please advise if my reply is based on a misunderstanding of what you
actually meant.

Joseph Potvin

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:33 AM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <
perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org> wrote:

> Aloha o/
>
> I would like to work on recommendation explaining how to issue deprecation
> warnings for currencies of one's own choice. In case someone doesn't feel
> familiar with concept of deprecation, please just see article on
> Wikipedia[1]
>
> Big part of my work in last years focuses on supporting development of
> great diversity of currencies[2] with personal focus on non-monetary
> currencies. Personally I already deprecated use of monetary currencies over
> 4 years ago, and as various alternatives become more established I would
> see such move as something everyone might realistically consider to make!
>
> Now, to play it *fair*. I would like that people who still chose to use
> certain currencies (especially those specified in ISO 4217[3]), and already
> plan to quit using them in very near future, while doing so could issue
> proper deprecation warnings. Myself I will soon strictly require issuing
> such warnings in situations when someone uses any of ISO 4217 currencies,
> to acquire an asset with intention of making it available to me / projects
> I work on (eg. registering a domain name, buying train ticket etc.) I
> consider it *not fair* to transfer certain monetary currency, quit using it
> silently together with majority of other people, and this way leave the
> other peer with a virtual number now useless in practice...
>
> Looking at Web Payments: Commerce Vocabulary spec[4]. Transaction seems to
> me like a proper place to include such warnings. At this moment one could
> possibly only put it in plain old rdfs:comment[5] which has range of
> rdfs:Literal. I would prefer that each warning has proper IRI and links
> back to transaction (preferably even embedding it). Can we add such feature
> to Commerce Vocabulary or I should look for a way to shomehow extend it?
> PayeeRule also sounds like possible place to mention it as well!
>
> Thank you for all suggestions :)
>
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation
> [2] http://polyeconomy.info
> [3] http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/currency_codes.htm
> [4] https://web-payments.org/specs/source/vocabs/commerce
> [5] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-schema/
> index.html#ch_comment
>
>


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