The W3C organization is looking at a "web payment API"

They are not monetary science experts. They are computer professionals and underestimate the subject matter.

See the W3C wiki for more information:
http://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?title=Payments_Task_Force#How_to_get_involved

The Mathematics of Monetary Science

Communication * (Trust + Performance) = Accountability

The above equation led to the creation of a monetary transaction specification with descriptive terminology.

"In God We Trust" is printed on the paper, but are they delivering on their promises?

A banking protocol.

The financial system is composed of a series of broken promises going back to treaties and trust funds.  Modern central banks were deliberately designed as a financial slavery system about 150 years ago, although it existed in other forms prior to that.  What is the solution?

A banking protocol.  I spent 8 years studying law, finance, banking, monetary science, and history and reverse-engineered the concept of money into its constituent parts.  Then arrived at a solution.

All financial transactions can be described as:
- one promise for another
- did each side deliver?

The above describes the basics of what I call “Promise Language”.   Please see the attached diagram:

While this appears simple (and it is), adoption of this protocol would fix the economy and world financial system within a few months.  Due to unraveling the treaties and trust funds’ broken promises, it would end warfare as well.  The protocol can be started anywhere and due to its simplicity and cutting transaction costs, it would be adopted rapidly.

Here is an abbreviated example.  For a more detailed specification, please contact me.

[transaction]
    [promise]
        [promissor]
            John Doe
        [/promissor]
        [promisee]
            Jane Doe
        [/promisee]
        [description]
            One stick of gum
        [/description]
        [date promised]
            2/8/2013  10:00am
        [/date promised]
    [/promise]
    [promise]
        [promissor]
            Jane Doe
        [/promissor]
        [promisee]
            John Doe
        [/promisee]
        [description]
            USD $1
        [/description]
        [date promised]
            2/8/2013  10:00am
        [/date promised]
    [/promise]
[/transaction]

Sincerely,
Andrew Bransford Brown
+1 917 653 7781
andrewbb@gmail.com


The protocol is currency agnostic.  Currencies can be designed to be backed by tangible value such as gold, silver, land, manufacturing output, rice output, wheat, natural resources, etc.

The protocol eliminates usury (charging a fee for a transactional medium), but allows interest when borrowing capital.

The protocol makes money supply important from the economies of scale of a currency, but unimportant to an individual.

The protocol allows an individual to become their own central bank, but this is unlikely due to the economies of scale of a national currency.

Each currency is a reflection of the culture of the country.

It eases the micro-management required in daily central bank operations.  Design of the currency becomes paramount.  For instance, if the US took the total currency in circulation and pegged it to the value of all real good manufactured exports, including processed food, the currency will gain value in direct relation to the real value of exports.  As exports increase, the value of the currency increases thereby lowering the cost of imports.  This happens automatically without daily intervention and manipulation of money supply or interest rates.

Only living beings can make promises.

Promise Language is a standardized protocol for transactions that solves the problem of money.  All transactions are "promises to deliver value" so anything of value can be conveyed.  Time, labor, land, goods and services are all freely transactable so money supply becomes moot.  Wealth Translators facilitate those trades.  Promise Assurers allow two individuals to transact anonymously with assurance their promises will be delivered upon.  Examples are Mastercard or Visa. 

Central banks made promises to provide value, but reneged.  Over time, Promise Language encourages the central banks to deliver something of value and back their paper and digits with something tangible.  That could be land or precious metals, but could also be the rice or wheat output of a country or region.

The core of the global monetary system is based on a lie:  printing paper and passing it off as something of value.  Promise Language changes that core to trust and accountability.  That is a "fractal" that permeates through the economy and over time would eliminate war and solve the environment because Promise Language encourages people to deliver on their promises without force.  The change is not instant, but occurs over time.  In 6 months, business people would see the creativity allowed and the economy would begin to grow.  It might take 5-10 years for central banks to be forced to back their product with tangible value or go out of business.

Promise Language is like a simplified version of contract law, but only living beings can make promises.  Corporations can contract, but only their officers can make promises.  For example, a revenue officer or a purchasing officer.  Accountability goes to the officer, backed by their contract with the paper corporation.

You could have a diamond card with a diamond held in a Wealth Storage facility that could be viewed with a robotic arm showing you your particular diamond.  You might own 73.234% of that diamond and it is spendable at the grocery store.  When applying for a loan, you might only show the lender your diamond transactions because your copper or gold promises might not be as perfect.