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

On 14 May 2015 at 16:59, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca> wrote:

> 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.
>

I think I may be slightly confused as to the functions of a "Payments
Architecture", that are not covered in awww, or the ontologies.  Would you
be able to elaborate.


>
> Joseph Potvin
> Operations Manager | Gestionnaire des opérations
> The Opman Company | La compagnie Opman
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> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Melvin Carvalho <
> melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 14 May 2015 at 16:08, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to raise a general consideration to the CG list:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/
>>
>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> 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
>
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