Re: Distinctions between Payments CG, Payments Workshop, and web-payments.org

2014/1/9 Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@unibw.de>

> Hi Manu,
>
> I think you are right in refusing his broad request - quite clearly, a
> leading player in the field of centralized, traditional payment services is
> likely to regard innovation as a potential threat.
>

+1, although Manu and other commentators are not really refusing the
request. Their feedback has been very welcomed, more participation has been
solicited - you can't be more open than that - and Manu then states very
clearly:

> To be clear, you have stated that PayPal/eBay has no intention of
> > joining the Web Payments CG due to IPR concerns. As a non-member of the
> > group, you are now asking for a website that is owned and operated by
> > the Web Payments CG to be taken down. Taking the audio and text minutes
> > from 60+ hours of very transparent teleconferences, as well as all 18
> > specification documents offline is wandering near the territory of
> > censorship. That seems very aggressive.
>
+1

Certainly, their concerns are very valuable in order to refine this group's
output.