Re: Proposed Web Payments/Credentials Specification Stack and Timeline

IG Charter in 3.1 W3C[1] groups doesn’t include credentials atm. 

[1] http://www.w3.org/2014/04/payments/webpayments_charter.html


On 25 Aug 2014, at 6:39 am, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Here's a draft overview graphic of the proposed specification stack for
> the Web Payments and Credentials work:
> 
> https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/17mfHu4EqsnZQ2eFI115qC8FUuLOX-ZSnWpCjo7q1Vlc/edit
> 
> The Credentials work would ignore the Web Commerce and Web Commerce API
> specs, but could utilize the rest of the software stack. To be clear,
> this is only a starting point / proposal. If other companies or
> organizations step up and put their technology under a W3C
> royalty-and-patent-free license and copyright, those technologies could
> become a part of the stack as well.
> 
> Here's a draft proposed timeline for each spec, which hopefully shows
> the dependencies between all of the specifications:
> 
> https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ynhajSaXw0wCqkTqTzc925_HBnHvz2bKC_S8th_xE9A/edit
> 
> Each of these specs can be found on the Web Payments specs page (we'll
> move the credentials-centric specs to a different domain once we've got
> that website setup):
> 
> https://web-payments.org/specs/
> 
> Thoughts, concerns, ideas?
> 
> -- 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/
>