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

1. Support the proposal.


On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 3:48 AM Nick Telford-Reed (w3c)
<w3@stormglass.consulting> wrote:

> 1. Support the proposal
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> On Tue, 15 Apr 2025, 2:43 pm Ian Jacobs, <ij@w3.org> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>> ----------------------
>> 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.
>>
>> -----------------
>> 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
>>
>> ----------
>> 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
>>
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