[Openid-specs-fapi] FAPI - The elephant in the room

[Anders Rundgren]

On 2019-05-10 15:57, Dave Tonge wrote:
> I'm not sure I follow your argument.

Dear Dave et al,

Note: the following is only valid for traditional, merchant-initiated, consumer payments.  Payments as a part of financial services (banking) is another story which I have less insight in.

> 1. Mobile works fine with OAuth

 From an outside looking in position it seems that the Open Banking community as a whole has caught the "Hammer Syndrome".

If you take Apple Pay as an example it has virtually nothing in common with OAuth.

Conclusion: there are evidently quite different "Nails" out there.  Although Apple Pay builds on a dated card centric scheme, the core concept (statically provisioned account-specific authorization-keys and associated meta-data) has in no way ran out of gas. These schemes also markedly departs from FIDO since their privacy model is based on encryption rather than domain-bindings.

A showdown is looming on the horizon.

In case the FAPI WG would like to discuss this topic further, we can do that anytime.

I leave it there but feel free communicating with me off-list!

thanx,
Anders



> 2. A PISP is a lightweight technology service provider that allows a merchant to receive payments into their bank account directly from their customers bank accounts.

So does a plain-vanilla web redirect as well.


Big merchants will be their own PISPs, but many small to medium size retailers will use a PISP (or indeed their existing payments platform will become a PSIP, e.g. Ayden: https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/33411/adyen-launches-open-banking-powered-payment-method
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> On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 10:40, Anders Rundgren via Openid-specs-fapi <openid-specs-fapi at lists.openid.net <mailto:openid-specs-fapi at lists.openid.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear list,
>     I hope you don't get too annoyed by my sometimes slightly "deviating" postings.
> 
>     Anyway, this article
>     https://medium.com/oauth-2/transaction-authorization-or-why-we-need-to-re-think-oauth-scopes-2326e2038948
>     triggered me to once again reiterate what I consider a core problem with the FAPI vision.
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>     In my opinion (supported by massive amounts of real-world deployments), payment transaction requests are rendered and authorized on mobile devices which seems to be at odds with the server-centric OAuth way of doing things.
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>     It all really boils down to the question: do "Financial Services" and "Consumer Payments" actually benefit from using the same technology?
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>     A related question is the value of a Payment Initiation Service.  As far as I can see it is essentially a "firewall" between the merchant and the user's bank.  The need for such a firewall is not evident.
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>     I believe this part of Open Banking needs a refresh where the PIS concept is replaced by something else like e-money institutions issuing virtual payment cards.  Performing bank selection in the PIS and (optionally) account selection in the bank seems very fuzzy compared to simply selecting a card in a consistent user interface. That there is no generally accepted "Wallet" out there is of course a snag.
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>     thanx,
>     Anders
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