What is the scope of the PaySwarm work?
We are sensitive to the needs of the entire content creation, distribution, payment, and customer ecosystem. This includes content identification and search (RDFa, Microformats, etc.), account crediting (credit card, PayPal, bank transfer, network-to-network cash transfer), identity management (OpenID, X509 certificate generation, validation and revocation), content registration, content distribution (physical point-of-sale, web-based, peer-to-peer based), contracts and licensing, royalty payments, coupons/discounts, dynamic pricing, and many other aspects that are vital when considering the operation of such a system. That said, it is important to have a sharp focus when performing good standardization; the work must produce a tangible technology product. For version 1.0, PaySwarm will focus on enabling web browsers to buy and resell digital content among one another.
