Re: Call for Consensus to Request Revision to Web Payments Working Group Charter

1. Support the proposal.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023, 11:57 a.m. Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> wrote:

> Dear Web Payments Working Group Participants,
>
> This is a Call for Consensus to request that the Director propose a
> revised Web Payments Working Group Charter to the W3C Membership:
>
> Draft charter:
> https://www.w3.org/Payments/WG/charter-2023.html
>
> Diff from current operative charter:
> https://www.w3.org/Payments/WG/charter-diff-2023.html
>
> PLEASE RESPOND to the proposal by 1 May 2023 (16h00 UTC).
>
> For example, if you support the proposal, respond to this list with "1.
> Support the proposal."
>
> For the co-Chairs,
> Ian Jacobs
>
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> BACKGROUND
>
> This proposed charter restores a paragraph of text previously in the
> charter. The following timeline helps to explain this change:
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> * December 2019: W3C enacts a charter [1] for the Web Payments WG
> that includes the following text:
>
> "User interface specifics are out of scope; this Working Group is
> chartered to Recommend programming interfaces, not user interface
> specifics. However, it is in scope for the Working Group to discuss
> user experience, for example as part of understanding user journeys
> during a checkout experience."
>
> * August 2021: W3C publishes the First Public Working Draft of
> Secure Payment Confirmation (SPC) [2].
>
> * November 2022: W3C enacts an updated charter [3] for the Working
> Group that does not include the above text. It was removed from the
> charter to avoid confusion about the group's work on Secure Payment
> Confirmation, which describes functionality related to the user
> experience of confirming a transaction.
>
> * March 2023: The Working Group receives a request [4] to restore the
> text to the charter.
>
> Although the group's chartered end date is 31 December 2024, the
> proposal is to renew the charter now to facilitate participation in
> the group. In addition, this charter revision includes updated
> milestone expectations regarding the publication of the SPC Candidate
> Recommendation and eventual Recommendation; see the full diff [5].
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/Payments/WG/charter-201912.html
> [2] https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9243
> [3] https://www.w3.org/Payments/WG/charter-2022.html
> [4] https://github.com/w3c/webpayments/issues/262
> [5] https://www.w3.org/Payments/WG/charter-diff-2023.html
>
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> PROPOSAL
>
> That the Web Payments Working Group request that the Director propose
> a revision to its Charter to the W3C Membership.
>
> Please indicate one of the following in your response:
>
> 1. Support the proposal.
>
> 2. Request some changes, but support the proposal even if suggested
> changes are not taken into account.
>
> 3. Request some changes, and do not support the proposal unless the
> changes are taken into account.
>
> 4. Do not support the proposal (please provide rationale).
>
> 5. Support the consensus of the Web Payments Working Group.
>
> 6. Abstain.
>
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> FORMAL OBJECTIONS
>
> * If you wish your LACK of support to publish to be conveyed to the
> Director and reviewed, please include the phrase "FORMAL OBJECTION"
> in your response and be sure to include substantive arguments or
> rationale.
>
> * The W3C Director takes Formal Objections seriously, and therefore
> they typically require significant time and effort to
> address.
>
> * Silence will be taken to mean there is no Formal Objection.
>
> * If there are Formal Objections, the Chairs plan to contact the
> individual(s) who made them to see whether there are changes that
> would address the concern and increase consensus to publish.
>
> For more information, see:
> https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#Consensus
>
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> NEXT STEPS
>
> * In the case where this Call for Consensus results in a decision that
> the proposal carries, the staff contact will request that the
> Director announce the charter to the Membership. If the Director
> agrees, the usual charter review process would begin:
> https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#CharterReview
>
> * Review by the W3C Membership may result in Formal Objections to the
> charter. To mitigate this risk, in the announcement of the proposed
> charter, we will emphasize that there are no changes to deliverables
> in this charter, only restoration of previous charter text.
>
> * While Member review of a proposed charter is ongoing, or in the case
> that the charter is not approved (or not approved in a timely
> fashion), the Payments Working Group can continue to operate under
> its current charter through 31 December 2024.
>
> --
> Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
> https://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
> Tel: +1 917 450 8783
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