- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:02:45 -0500
- To: public-webpayments@w3.org
On 02/08/2014 11:04 AM, Frode Kileng wrote: > I just took a look at the new web-payments.org site. The text at > https://web-payments.org/#tech states regarding the Web Payments > Community Group: > > "/also participates heavily in work at the //Internet Engineering > Task Force (IETF) <http://ietf.org>//./" I've removed the word "heavily" as it leaves too much to interpretation: https://github.com/web-payments/web-payments.org/commit/f72c516ba6ac7a11d7e8c474a91a46a1849f31ab > After attending IETF meetings for 10 years and closely following the > mailing lists for 20 years, this comes as a surprise for me. I've > never heard anything about, or from, the CG work and contributions > at any physical meetings or any mailing lists. > > Could anyone please clarify this statement? This group is composed of 139 participants, each one of them involved in standards at varying capacities. I won't speak for the other participants involvement w/ IETF (which is quite deep in certain areas), so I'll outline just the areas where we've been active in the past several years. I've personally been involved with promoting this groups work to the HTTPbis WG and HTTP/2. Julian Reschke, who edits a number of the HTTPbis specifications as well as many other IETF documents and I have discussed work around the Web and Web Payments for years. I've met face to face with Mark Nottingham, who chairs the HTTP work, and various other people involved at the IETF about Web Payments. I've also been involved in moving the HTTP Signature Authentication Scheme forward in the HTTP Auth WG. We've been involved with providing very detailed feedback to the JOSE WG because one of our specs competes with that stack. I've met in person with Karen O'Donahue, who Chairs that work at the last W3C Technical Plenary. I've also communicated with Richard Barnes (Realtime Applications and Infrastructure Area Director at IETF) and Stephen Farrell (Security Area Director at IETF) about the work we do here and coordinating it w/ IETF. Here are some links that demonstrate our involvement with the IETF, which I would classify as "heavy", but you may disagree. I only link to the beginning of key threads, there are others: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/http-auth/current/msg01712.html http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/http-auth/current/msg01726.html http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg09328.html http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/jose/current/msg03736.html http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/http-auth/current/msg01303.html http://manu.sporny.org/2013/sm-vs-jose/ https://web-payments.org/specs/source/http-signatures/ https://web-payments.org/specs/source/secure-messaging/ https://web-payments.org/specs/source/http-signature-nonces/ https://web-payments.org/specs/source/http-signature-trailers/ https://web-payments.org/specs/source/http-signatures-audit/ I hope that helps clarify our involvement with the IETF. :) -- 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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