- From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:04:26 +0200
- To: Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>, public-webpayments-comments@w3.org
If you want to create a distributed (decentralized) payment system rather than a yet another PayPal, Apple, Google or Alibaba, there's a fundamental problem that to date haven't been properly addressed and that is how you can tell the merchant where your "home-base" (bank, payment provider) is. You may of course have several home-bases! In federation contexts this has often been referred to as the WAYF (Where Are You From) function: https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/InCFederation/Discovery+Service+FAQ The WebPayment CG have come up with a solution to this problem as well: https://web-payments.org/specs/source/identity-credentials Personally I'm advocating yet another solution which though requires that you nuke existing platforms. This may sound like a horrible idea but NSS which is the core of Mozilla credentialling system haven't fundamentally changed since it was introduced back in 1995. Was federation even generally known at that time? I don't think so. Apple did the right thing when they left the old devices behind! AndersR
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