UNCITRAL Re: Agenda: Web Payments Telecon - Wednesday, April 9th 2014

Manu et.al. I'd like to add a small simple item to the agenda on a
large complex topic. Basically I'm hoping to sit in on part of the 28
April - 2 May NYC meeting of the Electronic Commerce Working Group
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law:
http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/commission/working_groups/4Electronic_Commerce.html

The specific part I'll try to attend is "Legal issues relating to the
use of electronic transferable records"  (here is the draft agenda
http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?OpenAgent&DS=A/CN.9/WG.IV/WP.127&Lang=E
 )

UNCITRAL's "Model Law on Electronic Commerce" is a generic template
for electronic commerce legislation that most countries use when
structuring their own laws on this topic. It therefore provides the
underlying legal context within which transborder payments are
conducted and enforceable. The outcome of their common template is a
degree of consistency for inter-jurisdictional transactions, despite
widely differing legal foundations amongst different countries and
their respective states/departments/provinces. FWIW, another UNCITRAL
Model Law provides the legal context for the inter-jurisdictional
proceedings related to the Mt Gox bankruptcy, eg see:
http://www.slyck.com/story2346_Following_the_Japan_Filing_Now_Mt_Gox_Files_For_Bankruptcy_Protection_in_the_US

It's important to note that for UNCITRAL, "electronic transferable
records" includes all aspects of web payments, including electronic
funds transfer:

Report of Working Group IV (Electronic Commerce) on the work of its
forty-sixth session:  "such generic rules should be broad enough to
encompass various types of electronic transferable records, including
those relating to goods and money"
http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?OpenAgent&DS=A/CN.9/761&Lang=E

Report of Working Group IV (Electronic Commerce) on the work of its
forty-seventh session:  "bills of exchange, promissory notes and
cheques should be included in the scope of the draft provisions"
http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?OpenAgent&DS=a/cn.9/768&Lang=E

So in our Wed conf call, I can (oh so briefly!) discuss how and why I
suggest that UNCITRAL provides a suitable context in international law
for any W3C Interest Group / Working Group activity on Web Payments,
and any eventual W3C Specification in this domain.

Joseph Potvin
The Opman Company

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We need to talk about the Internet Governance Forum and whether or not
> we're going to be participating this year or not. We also need to do
> a quick After-Action Review of the Web Payments Workshop and next steps
> that we'll need to do as a community to support the advancement of the
> Web Payments work at W3C.
>
> If you would like to add or change anything on the Agenda, please send
> the request to the mailing list before the telecon or mention the
> changes at the beginning of the call.
>
> The dial-in information as well as minutes and audio logs of previous
> meetings can be found here:
>
> https://web-payments.org/minutes/
>
> ==========
> Wednesday, April 9th 2014
> Time: 1500 UTC / 8am San Francisco / 11am Boston / 3pm London / 11pm HKT
> Digital Bazaar Telecon Bridge
> SIP: payswarm@digitalbazaar.com
> Phone US: +1.540.961.4469 x6300
> irc://freenode.net/#payswarm
> Duration: 60 minutes
> Scribes: Manu, Longley, Lehn, Joseph
> ==========
>
> Agenda
>
> 1. Internet Governance Forum 2014
>    * http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/
> 2. Web Payments Workshop Review
>    * https://web-payments.org/minutes/2014-web-payments-workshop/
> 3. Identity, Anonymity, Privacy, and Security
>    * https://web-payments.org/minutes/2014-03-24-s6/
> 4. Current and Future Payment Systems
>    * https://web-payments.org/minutes/2014-03-24-s1/
> 5. Initiating Payments and Digital Receipts
>    * https://web-payments.org/minutes/2014-03-24-s5/
>
> -- manu
>
> --
> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: The Worlds First Web Payments Workshop
> http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/
>



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