Re: Call for Consensus to Request Revision to Web Payments Working Group Charter (please respond by 28 April)

1. Support the proposal.

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 at 09:44, 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://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2025/payments-wg.html
>
> PLEASE RESPOND to the proposal by 28 April 2025 (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 AND CHANGES
>
> The 2023 version of the Web Payments Working Group charter expires at the
> end of July 2025:
>    https://www.w3.org/Payments/WG/charter-2023.html
>
> In the proposed 2025 version of the charter, the primary changes are (by
> section):
>
> 1. Motivation and Background: This section has been expanded to talk more
> about wallets and strong authentication.
>
> 2. Scope: The scope section has been expanded to make work on digital
> wallets and identity more explicit. The 2023 item about “instrument
> selection" has been dropped.
>
> 3. Deliverables: There is a new section (3.2) on Tentative Deliverables,
> which includes:
>
>    * Facilitated Payment link type in HTML API
>    * A placeholder for work on a payments profile within the digital
> credentials ecosystem in the case the community requests that this group
> standardize such a profile.
>
> 5. Coordination: The list of W3C groups now includes the Federated
> Identity Working Group (related to the Digital Credentials API). The
> charter drops coordination with the Web Application Security Working Group
> (which never took place in practice). The list of external organizations
> drops Open Banking, STET, and Berlin Group (even though we anticipate
> having occasional conversations with them). The charter adds to this
> section the WHAT WG (for discussions related to the Facilitated Payment
> link type in HTML API) and the OpenID Foundation (for discussions related
> to digital credentials, identity, and payments).
>
> --------
> 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/policies/process/#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/policies/process/#CharterReview
>
> * If you wish to propose concrete changes to the charter, we invite you to
> do so either via pull requests on the source document:
>
> https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/blob/gh-pages/2025/payments-wg.html
>
>   or via issues:
>      https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/issues
>
> --
> Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
> https://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
> Tel: +1 917 450 8783 <+1%20917-450-8783>
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