Re: agenda+ Proposed changes to draft Web Payments Working Group Charter

David, David and Ian,

The motivation for that sentence (and surrounding text), in its original
form, was simply to explain the reasons for focusing the scope of
standardization. I.e. To answer the question "why are we not standardizing
an interface to a payment processor?" and similar.

The many changes and deletions since have lost that and the sentence now
says something different to what was intended. Removing it completely is
the best solution in my opinion as we have sufficient wording elsewhere
that says what is required with regard to scope.

Adrian

On Saturday, August 1, 2015, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> wrote:

>
> > On Jul 31, 2015, at 6:16 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > On review of <
> http://w3c.github.io/webpayments-ig/latest/charters/payments-wg-charter.html>
> it seems that the second of these two sentences attempts to say the same as
> the first, but less well, and should therefore be deleted:
> >
> > "The Working Group will standardize a set of messages and a message flow
> for the initiation, confirmation, and completion of a payment. The scope of
> the charter is the interaction between payer user agent and payee Web
> application. “
>
> Thank you David Singer and David Baron.
>
> I have updated the editor’s draft of the charter with that sentence
> removed:
>
> http://w3c.github.io/webpayments-ig/latest/charters/payments-wg-charter.html
>
> I note that there is a non-normative phrase at the front of the charter:
>    “* the programming interfaces between the various parties (such as
> between user agent and Web application);”
>
> that may address what the deleted sentence was trying to say, but in a way
> that is not problematic.
>
> Thank you both for your help in improving the charter. On Monday we can
> have a brief synopsis of the
> changes of the past 2 days and then I hope we will be very nearly ready to
> announce the charter to the
> Membership.
>
> Have a good weekend,
>
> Ian
>
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