CIP-???? | Cardano URIs - Enhanced Payments

[Crypto2099]

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This proposal seeks to extend the CIP-13 payment URIs and address some of the issues raised here: #836

We need an enhanced and more explicit Payment type of Cardano URI in the modern era of native assets, smart contracts, and transactional metadata.

Because of legacy integrations with existing URI payments (lacking a dedicated authority) I have chosen to break this extension out into a new CIP with an explicit authority to avoid having to change or update CIP-13.

[rphair]

@Crypto2099 good to have a stub here for the current discussion of how a comprehensive and ambiguity-free payment URI syntax would look. Cross-referencing my #836 (comment) and #836 (comment) to be sure scenarios involving these boundary cases will be handled properly by any proposed syntax:

• keyword(s) used to specify metadata collide with token name(s)

... including these cases if payment handles are supported by this protocol (I would insist that they should be):

• payment handles (if supported by this protocol) are ambiguous as per CPS-0008? | Domain Name Resolution #605 (cc @SIDANWhatever)
• keyword(s) used to disambiguate payment handles collide with token name(s)
• payment handles collide with bare payment addresses (unlikely but possible)

[Crypto2099]

Thanks @rphair excited to start the conversation and hoping to have some first-draft specs delivered over the course of the next week for discussion! These are great starting points for consideration though!

[rphair]

you're welcome @Crypto2099 & if you feel potential specs could use community brainstorming then feel free to add this to the agenda in a week-plus time: https://hackmd.io/@cip-editors/91