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

+1 also! i think that can greatly help adoption, indeed.

what will happen to the copyright notice, then? i guess it doesn't 
really matter if it's already under a CC license, but maybe change it 
from Digital Bazaar to this W3C CG as well? not sure what common 
practice is for that.

On 16-Dec-13 23:24, John Sullivan wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> -- manu
> I think it's a good idea. I did not think it was a specification the first time I heard it. PaySwarm maybe sounds too much like a brand.
>
>

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