Web Payments / Credentials Organizations

The following document outlines all of the organizations that are
directly involved in the current and future Web Payments work:

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1H3guwrrYZALQR91iB7QzN1n4ViUnIKgVT6bZiRuyenI/edit

We still need to go through and outline the role that each organization
plays, but here's a very quick rundown:

Web Payments CG - Incubates and experiments with technologies and ideas
related to Web Payments. Feeds that work into the more formal
standardization groups.

Credentials CG - Incubates and experiments with technologies and ideas
related to Identity and Credentials on the Web. Feeds that work into the
more formal standardization groups.

Web Payments IG - Determines what gaps exist between use cases and
desired outcomes. Suggests new technical working groups to create for
Web Payments / Identity work.

Future Payment and Identity Technology Working Groups - Narrowly scoped
technical working groups take input use cases, requirements, and
technologies to create Web standards.

Open Payments Foundation - Funds researchers, writers, and programmers
to create open source implementations for all payment and identity
specifications.

IETF - Standardizes necessary protocols to support Web Payments and
Identity work.

Internet Governance Forum - Examines and makes recommendations related
to policy, law, and operational frameworks for payments and identity work.

US Fed Workshops - Disseminates information related to work that is
going on at W3C, IETF, IGF, and OPF. Gathers input related to banking
and financial industry needs wrt. initiatives above.

-- 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/

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