Re: The Payments Architecture within which a Web Payments Architecture occurs

The issue that I'm raising is that a "Payments Architecture" in general is
orthogonal to the "Architecture of the World Wide Web". Any architecture
for "web mediated payments" needs to reference a Payments Architecture that
is abstracted from whatever media are employed. And any architecture for
"web mediated e-commerce" needs to reference an Commerce Architecture that
is abstracted from whatever media are employed.

Joseph Potvin
Operations Manager | Gestionnaire des opérations
The Opman Company | La compagnie Opman
jpotvin@opman.ca
Mobile: 819-593-5983

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On 14 May 2015 at 16:08, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca> wrote:
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>> I would like to raise a general consideration to the CG list:
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>> What aspects of a "Web Payments: Technical Architecture" are unique to
>> "Web" mediated payment, what what aspects are generic to payment via any
>> medium?
>>
>> It seems to me that a generic payments technical architecture provides
>> the functional system environment within and upon which a Web payments
>> technical architecture occurs.  Therefore it seems to me critical to
>> clearly separate these two in the document.
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>> The thought I'm attempting to underline is that a Web Payments Technical
>> Architecture must point to an explicit external source that provides a
>> generic Payments Achitecture, preferably one provided and maintained by a
>> genuine global standards body, or something that in effect serves that
>> function. The generic Payment Architecture ought to be sufficiently refined
>> as to be consistent across all media
>>
>> A Web Payments Technical Architecture must (I would have thought)
>> restrict its additive scope to that which is within the domain of the W3C,
>> while explicitly referencing (in its text and diagrams) the generic
>> Payments Achitecture that it is engaging.
>>
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> Web arch is about naming things using URIs as per awww [1].  The payments
> work builds on that, and leverages other web technologies such as HTTP,
> linked data, JSON LD etc.
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/
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>> --
>> Joseph Potvin
>> Operations Manager | Gestionnaire des opérations
>> The Opman Company | La compagnie Opman
>> jpotvin@opman.ca
>> Mobile: 819-593-5983
>>
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-- Joseph Potvin
Operations Manager | Gestionnaire des opérations
The Opman Company | La compagnie Opman
jpotvin@opman.ca
Mobile: 819-593-5983