- From: Norbert Bollow <nb@bollow.ch>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:54:18 +0100
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Cc: Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>, Daniel Austin <daaustin@paypal.com>
Sounds good. Thank you so much, Manu, for handling this matter in such an exemplary manner! Greetings, Norbert Am Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:49:40 -0500 schrieb Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>: > Hi all, > > In an attempt to be proactive in dealing with PayPal/eBay's concerns > about the web-payments.org website and this community's positioning in > the larger ecosystem, I had a discussion with Ian Jacobs, W3C's Head > of Marketing and Communication. The discussion was good and very > collaborative. We came up with the following things that the group > should consider doing: > > 1. Gather consensus around which specs we're definitely working on in > the Web Payments community group. > 2. Make a few more modifications to the web-payments.org website > attempting to clearly specify that the CG is not endorsed by the > W3C, but it is also designed to create material that may be fed > into W3C or other standardization bodies like the IETF. > 3. Make a clear statement that although this work is not yet on > the W3C recommendation track, as it matures, the community will > evaluate whether or not they want to petition W3C to elevate it to > the standards track. > 4. Formalize a charter as not having one may be preventing > organizations like PayPal from participating in the CG (due to > unknown scoping concerns). > > We're going to have to integrate this input along with all the other > good input we've gotten since PayPal/eBay's concerns were raised with > this group and apply it to the website and the operation of this > group. > > We also talked about other sections of PayPal/eBay's concerns email > and got confirmation on them not being issues: > > 1. We are not violating any W3C Community Group rules. > 2. We are not violating the CLA. > 3. We are not violating CLA publishing requirements wrt. > web-payments.org. > 4. We do have the proper language in the specs regarding the > application of the CLA and IPR notices. Ian did say that W3C is > considering changing the text from 'specification' to 'report' > because some of the W3C Members like that word better, but that's > a decision for W3C Management. The text in all of our specs comes > from the ReSpec specification editing tool boilerplate. We use that > boilerplate to keep ourselves inline with W3C's policies regarding > changes to the W3C CLA. > > Here are the actions that the group is going to have to consider > taking over the next several weeks: > > 1. Formalize and vote on a charter, which will include figuring out > some of our operating rules (like how formal decisions are made). > 2. Vote on which specs this group sees as being in their purview. > 3. Modify the web-payments.org website to spin some of the statements > in a more positive way (such as the 'ailing financial system' > statements). > > I'll send out a separate email for each one of these action items > above, as there are details that we're going to have to work through > as a community. > > Thanks again to Ian from W3C for taking the time to talk through all > of these items in detail. We're continuing to try and find some > consensus around these issues so that we may go back to doing > technical work. > > -- manu >
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