Re: Wallet in Windows 10

On 2015-10-21 14:15, Joseph Potvin wrote:
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> Major commerical suppliers of competing digital wallet implementations may or may not like the framework, may or may not use it to describe themselves, but at least the broader community can describe and differentiate their concepts and functional implementations more pragmatically with a common ontology.

That's the wallet suppliers' problem in a nutshell: More work but no benefit since their own (mostly secret) ontologies obviously work.

Currently a wallet is tightly coupled to a business model which greatly complicates standardization efforts.

Anders


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> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@ulsberg.no <mailto:asbjorn@ulsberg.no>> wrote:
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>     2015-10-21 12:07 GMT+02:00 Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca <mailto:jpotvin@opman.ca>>:
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>     > My suggestion is that we work to "understand what the various camps agree
>     > and disagree about" in defining "digital wallet". I presume you don't
>     > disagree with that! :-)
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>     I at least agree with this.
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>     > "We believe that one reason for this is that the digital wallet market is
>     > fragmented and providers use incompatible programming interfaces.
>     > [...]
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>     In my experience, this is true.
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>     > [...] The proposed standards from W3C will help ensure interoperability
>     > of different solutions by standardizing the programming interfaces."
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>     I really hope it will, but only time will tell. I think we need Apple,
>     Google and (now) Microsoft on board for a final W3C Recommendation to
>     become a relevant industry standard. But I might be wrong.
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