Re: Input needed: US Federal Reserve Payments Position Paper

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On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> wrote:

> On 09/12/13 12:44, Joseph Potvin wrote:
>
>> Hello all. I've added to the wiki for your assessment, discussion,
>> revision/rejection, two high-level sections to the document as follows.
>> They could be considered as a preamble. Interested to know your thoughts.
>>
>> = Conformance with Open Standards =
>>
>> The W3C calls upon the US Federal Reserve System to align with the
>> International Monetary Fund's Code of Good Practices on Transparency in
>> Monetary and Financial Policies, which recommends that "the coverage of
>> transparency practices for financial policies in the Code includes those
>> for the operation of systemically important components of the nation's
>> payment system". We call on the US Federal Reserve System to ensure that
>> all ot its operational systems demonstrate auditable conformance with
>> applicable open standards, as defined in the Code of Good Practice for the
>> Preparation, Adoption and Application of Standards, Annex 3 to the WTO
>> Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade. And in particular the W3C
>> proposes that the US Federal Reserve's operational systems and dependencies
>> be efficiently documented in conformance with the ISO/IEC 11179:2003
>> standard for definitions, descriptions, business rules and metadata; and
>> with the ISO/IEC 19501:2005 standard on modeling language in the field of
>> software engineering; and that it be structured in conformance with the
>> ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 set of standards on IT Security techniques.
>>
>
> A word caution. You can't claim to speak on behalf of W3C here. If you
> want an official position from the W3C that is going to be a protracted
> process as we would need to consult with the W3C Advisory Committee to
> arrive at consensus position backed by W3C Members.
>
> What you can say is "The W3C web payments community group calls upon ..."
> provided of course that this is the consensus view of the community group.
>
> -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
>
>


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