Re: Call for Consensus to Publish a Group Note- RESPONSE REQUESTED by 29 November 2017

> On Nov 15, 2017, at 8:46 PM, Marcos Caceres <marcos@marcosc.com> wrote:
> 
> On November 16, 2017 at 8:35:18 AM, Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) wrote:
>> Based on consensus at our November face-to-face meeting [1], this is a Call for Consensus
>> to publish the following specification as a Group Note rather than advancing it to Recommendation
>> status:
>> 
>> Web Payments HTTP API 1.0
>> https://www.w3.org/TR/webpayments-http-api/
> 
> I'm supportive on the proviso that the spec is "gutted" (see [1], for
> example). The working group is already using Note status to  signal
> "this spec is mature" for Payment Methods (e.g., Basic Card). As such,
> it would send the wrong signal to publish this as a Note when we have
> no intention of working on it in the medium term.

Agreed.

Ian

> 
> Having said that, the spec could continue to live happily on Github as
> an Editor's draft - though we should add a big red note telling the
> community that we are not working on it.
> 
>> There was also consensus to:
>> 1) keep in-scope for our next charter a payment request message structure for out-of-browser
>> payments.
>> 2) add a liaison to the IETF’s HTTP WG for discussion of HTTP-initiated payment requests.
> 
> Sounds fine - but we should put some kind of time limit on it. If we
> don't commit to working on it by the next recharter, we should really
> drop it or hand it to a community group to incubate it (my preference
> is that that we hand it to a community group now).
> 
> So, my position is:
> 
>> 3. Request some changes, and do not support the proposal
>> unless the changes are taken into account.
> 
> [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/

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