Re: A Heretic's View on Web (Browser) Payments

On 1/19/15 3:47 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
> On 2015-01-18 22:37, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> On 1/18/15 6:00 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>>> On 2015-01-17 23:57, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>>>> On 1/17/15 12:44 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
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>> W3C isn't supposed to be producing prospective standardization specs. It
>> is supposed to be producing specs that standardize what exists.
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> And in the context of web payments that means...?

I don't know, and therein lies the big problem, from my vantage point.

Prescribing standards is dead-on-arrival.

Standardizing what's in use, so that implementation details are uniform 
and preserved forever (e.g., Internet RFCs from IETF) .

Getting this right is critical. Getting is wrong is tragic, as 
exemplified by RDF.

What is RDF, actually?

A retrospective standardization of entity relations representation. By 
that I mean, from the onset the notion of entity relations has been part 
of HTML (via <link/> and HTTP (via "Link:"), but none of this factors 
into conventional RDF narratives. Instead, RDF was promoted using a poor 
narrative that was all about RDF/XML (specifically) as THE standard data 
representation notation and across-the-wire serialization format.

Even as a write, document content notations and across-the-wire 
serialization format specificity related squabbles continue to obscure 
what RDF is actually all about :(

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