W3C Web Payments Activity Update

Dear All,
I would like to give you a complete update on W3C Web Payments activity.
The last months since the workshop have been intensive and I want to 
thank again all those who participated in the discussions and 
contributed to the development of the W3C Web Payment Steering Group 
charter (AKA Web Payments IG).
I believe that the charter at [1] has stabilized and covers most of the 
points that are in the scope of this activities.
Apart for driving the development of the charter, We (my W3C colleagues 
and me) have conducted a series of one2one discussions with various 
organizations, and we believe that we have now the critical mass to 
launch the activity.
We will now start the formal W3C process.
In few words, the process consists of a few steps:
*after W3C management approval, the charter will be send to W3C members 
representatives for review and comment
*Based on this review, the W3C director will decide (or not) to launch 
the new group
*When the group is launched, W3C members appoints some of their staff to 
the group and the work begin

The commitments for participants in the group is light:
the group works by email, usually meets once a week for one hour 
teleconference, and then is likely to meet face-2-face around 3 times a 
year. While not mandatory, participation in these f2f, particularly in 
the first one, is really important. In most cases, we will be able to 
organize remote participation solutions through teleconferences.

If the group is launched as scheduled, it is very likely that the first 
face-2-face will take place during the annual W3C Technical Plenary. 
This year it is taking place in Santa-Clara, California, 27 to 31 
October. The Web Payments group is scheduled 27 and 28. See details at 
http://www.w3.org/2014/11/TPAC/
Note that the group is not listed yet because it is not existing.

In terms of required actions, here is what you have to do:
*If your organization is a W3C member (see the list at 
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List ): if you are the official W3C 
representative, then you just have to wait and receive son a call for 
review. You will have then to send your review and that's it. If you are 
not the official W3C representative of your company, you should get in 
touch with your representative (don't hesitate to ask me his/her 
details) and coordinate the review together.

*If your organization is not a W3C member, note that the participation 
in the group requires W3C membership. If you are interested to learn 
more on the benefit and process for becoming a member, please get in 
touch with me. In some exceptional cases, we may appoint individuals as 
invited experts (see http://www.w3.org/2004/08/invexp). I'm managing 
these requests on a case-by-case.

Please let me know if the process and next steps are clear or if you 
have any questions. Feel free to comment publicly or contact me 
privately. Finally, feel free to share this email with anybody that may 
be interested in this work.
[1]http://www.w3.org/2014/04/payments/webpayments_charter.html

Best Regards
Stephane
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Stephane Boyera        stephane@w3.org
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Received on Thursday, 24 July 2014 08:46:05 UTC