- From: Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:49:46 -0400
- To: Michael Williams <michael.williams35@gmail.com>
- Cc: Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>
Michael, In the archives of the CG there's discussion of barter. Also... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> Date: Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:08 PM Subject: Re: [goodrelations] GoodRelations and Web Payments (aka. Payswarm) To: Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>, goodrelations@ebusiness-unibw.org Hi all: Quick answer: The textual definitions in GoodRelations will soon be polished to reflect the fact that the compensation for a certain offer can include non-monetary assets (e.g. barter trade). Also note that gr:ProductOrService is not disjoint from any other class in GoodRelations, so it is perfectly okay to e.g. offer a gr:Location for sale etc. Martin On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Michael Williams <michael.williams35@gmail.com> wrote: > hi all, :) > > after reading the Interest Group charter > (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Jul/0034.html), > i realized in the (hopefully non-exhaustive) list of "possible legal > payments methods", there is no mention of barter, namely exchanging assets > directly for assets instead of currencies (or points, etc). > > in the relevants docs: the Web Commerce spec > (https://web-payments.org/specs/source/web-commerce/), Web Commerce > vocabulary (https://web-payments.org/specs/source/vocabs/commerce.html), and > the general Web Payments use cases > (https://web-payments.org/specs/source/use-cases/), there is no mention of > barter transactions, instead the only mentioned way of paying for an asset > is through a currency. > > i'm wondering if it is within scope of Web Payments to support barter > transactions. in particular, i'm thinking about network barter transactions > like http://edgeryders.eu/makerfox, where a single transaction may involve > any number of participants each with any number of offers or wants, all > denominated in assets. it's currently possible to model each individual > offer and want, but what about modeling the transaction? > > the only solution i can imagine currently is that a new currency type is > generated for every network transaction, and one unit of this currency is > transferred in every sub-transaction, such that the sum of the currency for > each participan cancels out. however, is there even support for such a > multi-party transaction, basically can a single transaction contain many > sub-transactions? > > cheers, > Michael -- Joseph Potvin Operations Manager | Gestionnaire des opérations The Opman Company | La compagnie Opman jpotvin@opman.ca Mobile: 819-593-5983
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