Seeking your input on Web Payments WG face-to-face plans

Dear Web Payments Working Group,

The co-Chairs and I continue to discuss face-to-face meeting plans in light of COVID-19 concerns. Some conferences
are currently going ahead as planned (e.g., the IETF meeting in Vancouver [1] starting 21 March),  while others have
been canceled. 

At the current time we are watching several signals:

* Travel advisories from agencies such as the CDC in the US. As of right now the CDC has no recommendations regarding Ireland [2].
* Whether our host can still host the meeting. As of yesterday morning, the answer was still “yes."
* Whether people are able to attend. Right now we still have a large number of people who are registered for the meeting (~40) but a number
  of people can no longer attend (~10).

We would very much like to hear from you, especially if you already know you can no longer attend the meeting.

If we end up postponing the face-to-face meeting, we would like to consider an alternative meeting approach that week. I anticipate we will discuss
all of this at our 5 March teleconference [3].

Thank you,

Ian

[1] https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/107/
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/index.html
[3] https://github.com/w3c/webpayments/wiki/Agenda-20200305
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Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
https://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
Tel: +1 718 260 9447

Received on Tuesday, 3 March 2020 13:54:24 UTC