Re: Web Commerce API vote results

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>wrote:

> The Web Commerce API voting polls closed yesterday with 92% of the vote
> in favor of adopting the document as a work item. Detailed results of
> the poll are attached to this email.
>
> I failed to include the name field on the poll for the first three
> people that voted. I know that one of them was Pindar.


Sorry for the confusion.

Yes, I voted in favour of the Web Commerce API being added as a work item
for this group.

I don't know who
> the other two were (Canada and France). If you voted and don't see your
> name in the results please identify your vote via the mailing list.
>
> I checked with the person that voted in favor of not adopting the work
> and their vote was split. They were in favor of standardizing the
> payment request and payment response format, but are against making the
> way that request was initiated browser-only. That is, making it
> browser-only would be too limiting, which is very good input and is not
> the purpose of the specification. So, we need to clarify the
> specification so that others don't walk away with that same false
> impression.
>
> The Web Commerce API is now a work item for this group. We'll update the
> website to reflect this group decision.
>

IMHO this is a very wise outcome. Congratulations!

p.



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> blog: The Worlds First Web Payments Workshop
> http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/
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