Re: Web Payments WG - how to join?

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. And thank you for making the Interledger
group open!

-Jehan

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com>
wrote:

> Hey Jehan (and everyone else),
>
> +Ian Jacobs from W3C
>
> The W3C is a consortium that is formed of paying members (who's fees fund
> its existence).
> Members make very strong commitments when joining and when joining working
> groups around IP to ensure their contributions are made royalty-free.
>
> The commitment you made to join the Interledger Group was similar but for
> groups producing W3C standards track document the process is more rigid.
>
> That is not to say that the work done at W3C is done behind closed doors.
> On the contrary everything the Web Payments Working Group is doing is in
> the open.
> If you're interested start with the GitHub repo and look at the issue
> lists: https://github.com/w3c/webpayments/
>
> There are occasions where the group meets face-to-face or on calls which
> are closed to non-members for a few reasons:
> 1. To ensure all contributors have made the right IPR commitments
> 2. To ensure that all contributors are known to the chairs and are known
> to be contributors (as opposed to disruptors)
> 3. To allow members to talk more freely about their implementation plans
> which may have some degree of business confidentiality
>
> Non-members do attend these meetings at the invitation of the chairs and
> approval of the W3C usually on the basis that they will be positive
> contributors and have a knowledge or expertise the group is lacking.
> There are quite a number of "Invited Experts" working within the W3C who
> are not employees of member organisations.
>
> The reason community groups were created at the W3C was to foster an
> environment where non-members could collaborate and that's why we're doing
> the ILP work in the Interledger Community group.
>
> Ian can probably provide some colour if required.
>
> Adrian
>
>
>
> On 3 February 2016 at 18:59, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sorry if this a bit off topic, but I was just looking at the Web Payments
>> stuff here https://www.w3.org/Payments/WG. It seems that registration is
>> closed to the public? What's the point of having a non-public standards
>> body? Does anyone know if it would still be possible for me to attend the
>> Web Payments WG face to face?
>>
>> -Jehan
>>
>
>