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

> On Nov 16, 2017, at 4:58 PM, Michel Weksler <michel.weksler@airbnb.com> wrote:
> 
> I am not sure I fully understand Marco's proposal or Ian's agreement - apologies if I am being very thick here, but would one of you mind clarifying?

When we publish the Note, it should basically not have any real content in it. Just a sort of stub that says “Nothing to see here."

Ian

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> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:59 AM Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> wrote:
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> > 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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> - Michel

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