Web Monetization

[ianbjacobs]

Adrian Hope-Bailie introduced this topic during TPAC 2018; see his presentation:
https://www.w3.org/2018/Talks/ahb_monetization_20181023.pdf

[ianbjacobs]

Discussion during the April 2019 WPWG FTF meeting:
https://www.w3.org/2019/04/03-wpwg-minutes.html#item04

Also planned for the September FTF meeting:
https://github.com/w3c/webpayments/wiki/FTF-Agenda-201909

[ianbjacobs]

Moving this to incubation:
https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-web-monetization-a-new-revenue-model-for-the-web/3785

[ianbjacobs]

Discussions continue, including during TPAC 2019. Here are minutes from WPWG discussion:
https://www.w3.org/2019/09/15-wpwg-minutes.html#item15

[ianbjacobs]

See Coil's Grant for the Web initiative to foster adoption of Web Monetization:
https://www.grantfortheweb.org/

[ianbjacobs]

Coil is organizing a developer discussion in July on Web Monetization:
https://dev.to/coil/announcing-the-web-monetization-workshop-wmw-2oid

[ianbjacobs]

@marcoscaceres has been more active in this space; I invite an update on any recent progress.

[marcoscaceres]

Working together with Coil and Interledger, we now have a new specification (temporary location):
https://webmonetization-preview.netlify.app/

This new specification:

• Allows multiple link elements - but the WM agent can limit how many connections it handles.
• The "progress" event is now called "monetization", and is fired at the <link> element .
• introduce a new global event handler attribute: onmonetization, which is on every HTML element.
• We now route all events through the link element.
• Developer-recoverable errors are handled via the <link onerror> event handler.
• Successfully loading/processing SPSP is reflected via the <link onload> event handler.
• Defined CSP monetization-src.
• Defined a "monetization" permission policy.

Before the new spec becomes a Final Community report, we (Editors) want to shop it around a bit more and get feedback... this will take around 3 months, xmas allowing.

The WM community will work on updating the documentation at webmonetization.org.

If we can get more implementer interest, it would be great to find a home for this at the W3C. Not sure which working group exactly... might have to be its own thing, which is ok.

There are a bunch of open questions around standardizing the underlying protocols (SPSP and STREAM) that need to happen still. Those protocols are currently "owned" by the Interledger Foundation.

[ianbjacobs]

See also issue #296

[ianbjacobs]

There was a Web Monetization breakout session at TPAC 2022:
https://www.w3.org/2022/09/14-web-monetization-minutes.html