- From: Pindar Wong <pindar.wong@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:53:46 +0800
- To: Stephane Boyera <boyera@w3.org>
- Cc: Mountie Lee <mountie@paygate.net>, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAM7BtUoV+-yd7LpmaJN7zRgcepEHMtohehVBgeZfsNXyBxfufg@mail.gmail.com>
Thank you Steph for this thoughtful consideration. I would not want any new member to the W3C (in particular banks, payment processors and other financial institutions, say from the Asia Pacific or elsewhere) to feel disadvantaged at not being able to participate fully in any decision making next month pending procedural inertia or misunderstanding. Regards, Pindar On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Stephane Boyera <boyera@w3.org> wrote: > Hello Pindar, > You are absolutely right in the fact that the distance between the group > announce and the first f2f is short for new members to join. > I believe we can be flexible and have W3C members attending the F2F even > if they are just at the beginning of the W3C membership application. We > have a series of members in that state, that are ready to join provided the > group is created. > However, obviously if the attendance to the first face2face is low, then > we should seriously consider another event in the near future like at the > beginning of the year perhaps, or even before. This is something we will be > able to evaluate by the end of october. > > Best > Steph > > Le 23/09/2014 09:09, Pindar Wong a écrit : > >> Dear Stephane, >> >> Thank you for your efforts and for your clarification regarding the >> process. Especially regarding the approval (or not) of the formation of >> a Web Payment Interest Group (IG) by October 16th. The extension of >> any early-bird registration would be most welcome by some and I am >> sensitive to the optics w.r.t. an on-going vote. >> >> Nevertheless, please do bear in mind that any potential new members to >> the W3C, who might join, if and only if, the new Interest Group is >> formed, might well like the option to formally participate in any >> inaugural meeting of a newly formed IG -- clearly that will be an >> important event. Thus having some placeholder dates and venue, pending >> outcome of a vote, would very much assist in managing all parties >> expectations and would, I hope, not be controversial. >> >> I look forward to the outcome of the W3C Membership and Director's >> decision. Even though, in my case, I regret that it is exceedingly >> doubtful that I could attend on such short notice. >> >> p. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Stephane Boyera <boyera@w3.org >> <mailto:boyera@w3.org>> wrote: >> >> Hi Mountie, All, >> >> W3C Web Payments IG is going to meet at TPAC if the group is >> approved by W3C membership and W3C director by October 16. At this >> point in time we have received only positive reviews, so i'm >> confident. >> I'm working on extending the early-bird registration till October 23 >> for members of Web Payments IG to give a week after the announcement >> of the group for people to register. I will confirm this in the >> announcement of the launch of the group. >> >> Best >> Stephane >> >> >> Le 23/09/2014 06:58, Mountie Lee a écrit : >> >> I think >> listing the schedule at >> http://www.w3.org/community/__webpayments/ >> <http://www.w3.org/community/webpayments/> is enough. >> >> that is also part of w3c page and the first place I were try to >> find >> schedule. >> >> regards >> mountie. >> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Manu Sporny >> <msporny@digitalbazaar.com <mailto:msporny@digitalbazaar.com> >> <mailto:msporny@digitalbazaar.__com >> <mailto:msporny@digitalbazaar.com>>> wrote: >> >> On 09/22/2014 11:41 PM, Pindar Wong wrote: >> > I'm sorry Manu but this meeting that you're referring to >> below is NOT >> > on the schedule. >> >> Yes, this is causing a lot of confusion. I'm currently >> trying to get W3C >> to at least list the meeting on the schedule, with the >> caveat that it >> may not happen if W3C member companies vote the Web >> Payments Activity >> down. Even if that happens, I plan to run an unconference >> session on it >> and the Credentials work during W3C TPAC. >> >> Stephane has mentioned the meeting on this public mailing >> list: >> >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/__Public/public-__ >> webpaymentsigcharter/2014Sep/__0016.html >> >> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public- >> webpaymentsigcharter/2014Sep/0016.html> >> >> W3C is not supposed to list meetings that have not yet been >> approved by >> the W3C membership (the vote is currently ongoing). I'm >> guessing that >> this is because some of the W3C membership may get cranky >> if W3C does >> something that hasn't been approved by them. Unfortunately, >> that >> approval will come on October 16th at the earliest, which >> is well past >> the early-bird registration deadline. >> >> > I guess people do things differently, but is there a >> venue or is >> > that also up in the air too? >> >> The venue will be W3C TPAC, but currently you either have >> to be a W3C >> member to attend, or show promise at becoming a member in >> the future. >> >> -- manu >> >> -- >> 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/ >> <http://manu.sporny.org/2014/dawn-of-web-payments/> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Mountie Lee >> >> PayGate >> CTO, CISSP >> Tel : +82 2 2140 2700 <tel:%2B82%202%202140%202700> >> E-Mail : mountie@paygate.net <mailto:mountie@paygate.net> >> <mailto:mountie@paygate.net <mailto:mountie@paygate.net>> >> >> >> -- >> Stephane Boyera stephane@w3.org <mailto:stephane@w3.org> >> W3C +33 (0) 6 73 84 87 27 <tel:%2B33%20%280%29%206%2073% >> 2084%2087%2027> >> BP 93 >> F-06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, >> France >> >> >> > -- > Stephane Boyera stephane@w3.org > W3C +33 (0) 6 73 84 87 27 > BP 93 > F-06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, > France >
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