Call for Participation: Web Payments Working Group Charter approved; Join the Web Payments WG

Dear Members of the Web Payments Working Group,

I'm relaying the following announcement that was sent to W3C Advisory 
Committee Representative earlier today, to notify the group of the new 
charter approval and call for participation.

With kind regards,
Xueyuan Jia, Marketing & Communications


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Call for Participation: Web Payments Working Group Charter 
approved; Join the Web Payments WG
Date:  Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:26:38 +0800
From:  Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
[This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]

W3C is pleased to announce the recharter of the Web Payments Working Group
https://www.w3.org/Payments/WG/charter-2025.html

The group is chartered through 31 July 2027.

The mission of the Web Payments Working Group is to make consumer retail 
payments easier and more secure on the Web.

Please use the following form to have your organization join or rejoin 
the group. The form will also instruct you on how to nominate participants:
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/payments/join

Please consider diversity when proposing people to participate in W3C 
groups. Representation from a wider group of people, especially people 
from under-represented groups, is vital for creating web standards that 
meet the needs of the wider web community.

If your organization is currently in the group, please note that you 
will need to have it rejoin the group as the new charter allows the 
possibility of new Recommendation Track deliverables with licensing 
obligations under the W3C Patent Policy. This Call for Participation 
triggers the start of the 45 days grace period. See:
https://www.w3.org/2020/09/15-pp-faq.html#recharter

The Working Group chairs are Gerhard Oosthuizen (Entersekt), Praveena 
Subrahmanyam (Airbnb), and Nick Telford-Reed (Invited Expert). The Staff 
Contact is Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> for a total of 0.4 FTE.

More information about the Web Payments Working Group can be found on 
its homepage:
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/payments/

[...]
A comparison with the proposed charter is available at:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FPayments%2FWG%2Fcharter-2025-ac-review.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FPayments%2FWG%2Fcharter-2025.html

For more information about changes since the previous charter, please see:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/501

This announcement follows section 5.7.2 of the W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20231103/#ACReviewAfter

and the Call for Participation follows section 4.4 of the W3C Process 
Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20231103/#cfp

Thank you,

For Philippe le Hégaret, W3C Strategy and Project Lead,
Ian Jacobs, Web Payments WG Staff Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications