Re: Further to the "payments" vs "commerce" topic [WAS: Web Payments Interest Group 2015 NYC face-to-face meeting reading list]

When I discussed this with the Chair of the UNCITRAL WG IV several months
ago, he suggested that W3C's WP IG could have "observer status" in their
bi-annual meetings which alternate between NYC and Vienna. It would be
observer status because "participant" status is limited to government
representatives (givent that governments are the constituting bodies of the
UN).  This is similar to participant/observer roles in ISO TC's --
basically, observers need to get participants to table their input, and
voting rights are held only by the participants.

Their current work is very apropos to what the W3C WP IG is working on. See
the links from their May 2015 meeting in NYC:
http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/commission/working_groups/4Electronic_Commerce.html

If the IG wants to pursue this, I can make the appropriate introductions.

Joseph Potvin
Project Coordinator, DataKinetics http://www.dkl.com
Operations Manager | Gestionnaire des opérations
The Opman Company | La compagnie Opman
jpotvin@opman.ca
Mobile: 819-593-5983




On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On 06/14/2015 06:29 AM, Joseph Potvin wrote:
> > More generally, it's fundamental for all participants in this initiative
> > to be hyper-clear about what legal requirements they are working under
> > when creating specifications for various functions. To this end it would
> > be helpful for the inititiative as a whole, as well as in its task
> > groups, to accurately reflect the legal contexts implied in the
> > terminology being used. The global-level touchstone on this is the
> > entity comprised of lawyers from Justice Departments from around the
> > world: UNCITRAL.
>
> Joseph, when and how do you suggest we engage UNCITRAL?
>
> -- manu
>
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> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: Web Payments: The Architect, the Sage, and the Moral Voice
> https://manu.sporny.org/2015/payments-collaboration/
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