[use case] Web Payments CG Use Cases 1.0 integrated into wiki

The Web Payments CG Use Cases document has been integrated into the Web
Payments IG Use Cases Task Force wiki:

https://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/wiki/Use_Cases_Task_Force

At this point, the Use Cases Task Force members can divide/conquer each
use case by adding new ones, refining existing ones in the wiki,
assigning priority, extracting requirements, etc. We'll coordinate on
who is doing what during the Use Case TF call this coming week. Ok, so
that's a status report on where we are on the WPIG Use Cases wiki.

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I'm going to make a mountain out of a mole hill below, so keep that in
mind as you read the rest of the email. I'm outlining these concerns for
full disclosure purposes, even though the likelihood of there being an
IP/copyright issue is incredibly slim.

Until the W3C Community Group Final Specification Agreement has been
processed (two-ish weeks from now), there is a very minimal danger that
someone will come out of the woodwork and claim IP/copyright on one of
the use cases. The claim would be spurious on two fronts:

1. David I. Lehn and myself have been the only contributors[1] of
   substantive text to the document for the specific purpose of
   avoiding a copyright issue when the document was handed over to W3C.
2. Unless we have accidentally lifted text from a non-Web Payments
   associated activity (and we've been very careful not to), or one of
   the Web Payments Workshop use case scribes decides to withhold their
   use case, the Web Payments CG 45 day IP/copyright release went into
   effect some time ago and thus any IP/copyright claim would be
   invalid.

If there is a IP/copyright issue, we can remove the portion of the
document under contest and continue until the issue is resolved (or
replace the text entirely). So, even in the worst possible cases, we
have an easy/immediate way of mitigating the issue.

-- manu

[1]
https://github.com/web-payments/web-payments.org/commits/master/specs/source/use-cases/

-- 
Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
blog: The Marathonic Dawn of Web Payments
http://manu.sporny.org/2014/dawn-of-web-payments/

Received on Sunday, 30 November 2014 18:31:54 UTC