Re: web-payments.org vs. payswarm.com

On 16 December 2013 17:20, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We discussed a re-branding of this group's website on last weeks call:
>
> https://payswarm.com/minutes/2013-12-11#topic-2
>
> The primary issue is that people are seeing something called "PaySwarm"
> and are immediately jumping to the conclusion that it's a proprietary
> solution, even after we explain that it's a completely open, patent and
> royalty-free set of specifications that are published on the Web.
>
> The current proposal is to make web-payments.org the site where we place
> the content for this group. All content from payswarm.com will be
> migrated to the new site and re-branded to "Web Payments". All telecon
> minutes will be served from there, all specs will be served from there,
> etc.
>
> The code name for some of the specs that we're working on here will
> still be "PaySwarm", but that branding will be removed from all
> presentations in an effort to make the messaging about what we're doing
> here more clear. The message we want to send is "We are standardizing a
> variety of technologies to ease sending and receiving money via the
> Web". Some of those technologies include JSON-LD, PaySwarm, Ripple,
> Bitcoin, and ISO20022. Other technologies will be added as necessary.
>
> Thoughts? If there is no objection on the list, we'll start this
> transition later this month.
>

+1


> -- manu
>
> --
> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: Meritora - Web payments commercial launch
> http://blog.meritora.com/launch/
>
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