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Payment Method Identifiers specification
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Schema.org PaymentMethod as namespace for short strings #13

Closed adrianhopebailie closed 7 years ago

adrianhopebailie commented 8 years ago

Since we resolved to use short-strings for payment method identifiers that are not minted by independent entities does it make sense for us to register these short strings (or re-use those) in the http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1 namespace.

See http://schema.org/PaymentMethod

This also begs the question of whether it makes sense for the payment method manifest to have a well defined context and use this Schema.org type?

adrianba commented 7 years ago

The reason we decided to go with short-strings was to avoid any overhead from having to manage an external registry. It doesn't make sense to me to now decide to use an external registry for these strings. How about we just define the strings in the payment method specs?

ianbjacobs commented 7 years ago

I would put it slightly differently:

I would not hold up the spec for a registry.

Ian

adrianhopebailie commented 7 years ago

It seems we can advance the specification without needing a registry (beyond the definition in the spec). It may be useful independently to register the strings in one more more registrations. (And more investigation would need to happen to determine there's a value in doing so.)

+1 , but I will add that we have ignored, up to now that there is already a registry that we COULD just use where the short-strings are implied to be the fragments on a http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1 base URL ...

adrianba commented 7 years ago

I will add that we have ignored, up to now that there is already a registry that we COULD just use

I don't believe that is true. There are many registries we could just use. I don't believe we need one and I recommend closing this issue.

ianbjacobs commented 7 years ago

Closing this issue based on discussion above and also group resolution (cf the PMI spec [1]) that "W3C identifies these payment methods with (short) strings; W3C expects to mint these strings in payment method specifications published by the Web Payments Working Group.".

We can always do more if we perceive that it would be useful.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-method-id/#w3c-defined-strings-as-payment-method-identifiers