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Communications Strategy Task Force/Mobile Story

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How the W3C Web Payments work relates to mobile operator business, and opportunities created by the work. Questions? Ian Jacobs

Status: This is a draft with no standing. The goal is to create a 1- or 2-page piece.

Notes

  • Background
    • Web supports a variety of monetization models: ads, freemium, subscriptions, contract work. However, no payment API standards.

Topics

  • Security
    • Need to reconcile security models.
  • Identity and authentication
    • FIDO work
  • P2P
  • Connection to WOT

Benefits

  • Ubiquity (since Web)
    • Gartner: By 2016 more than 50% of Mobile apps will be Hybrid

Business Opportunities

  • Open standards shift control back to mobile operators
  • Value added services
  • Carrier billing
  • Customer relations: payment agent provider with value added services
  • Identity provider
  • OWP benefits: Rich platform, in-place updates, easy deployment of apps, huge developer mindshare, integration with technologies like WebRTC, etc.
  • User experience by bridging online/in-store payments

References

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