Proposal: Adopt 'facilitated payment links' work under WPWG

Hi folks,

As you may know, we (Google) have been developing a specification for
'facilitated payment links' in the WICG -
https://github.com/WICG/paymentlink . Junhui presented an update on it in
yesterday's WPWG meeting (minutes
<https://www.w3.org/2025/01/30-wpwg-minutes.html#a59a>, slides
<https://www.w3.org/2025/Talks/google-paymentlink-20250130.pdf>), and we
really appreciated the interest, discussion, and questions we received out
of that presentation.

Out of this, we would like to propose moving the 'facilitated payment link'
work from the WICG to the WPWG. It seems a fairly clear fit to me, given
the overlap in scope and also the potential for building a clearer
relationship between 'facilitated payment links' and existing WPWG-driven
APIs (Payment Request, Payment Handler). The initial output of the
'facilitated payments link' work is likely to be a spec change to the HTML
specification (as that is where <link> elements are specified), but I could
see future extensions to Payment Request and Payment Handler too.

I believe that adopting 'facilitated payment links' into the WPWG would
require rechartering the WPWG, as our current charter is tightly restricted
to SPC, Payment Request, and Payment Handler. I'm not sure of the process
here in gaining group consent (or not!) to either adopt 'facilitated
payment links' or to re-charter, so hopefully Ian can help guide us along
the way! :)

Thanks,
Stephen

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