Re: Web Payments Workshop looking great

These are very welcome additions and thank you for the update. I will note
these in my slides for my Jan 15 talk.

As far as next the next step, I will be helping to drive awareness of the
group's work and specifically attendance to the Web Payments Workshop.

If any group members will be in HK, I'll be happy to try to host a dinner
or somesuch (schedule permitting) -- the Asia PKI Forum which will be held
immediately after the Asia Financial Forum (Jan 13-14).

http://www.asianfinancialforum.com/en/index.htm

I apologies for note being able to contribute more directly to the Program
Cmt's work as I'm clearly over committed right now.

p.



On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 5:06 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been working behind the scenes to get some heavy hitters
> participating in the Web Payments Workshop, and have had to keep quiet
> due to the nature of the talks. These were private conversations with
> the hope that they'd become public some day and today is that day.
>
> There have been a couple of additions to the Web Payments Workshop
> Program Committee that are now public. I'd like to point out their
> significance to the group, to demonstrate that this group is a part of
> something big (for those of you that are not convinced of that yet):
>
> http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/#pc
>
> Here are the three big new additions:
>
> US Federal Reserve - Yes, /THE/ US Federal Reserve... the one with $4
> trillion dollars on its balance sheet. The central banking system for
> the United States of America which is responsible for conducting the
> nation's monetary policy, supervising and regulating banking
> institutions, maintaining the stability of the financial system and
> providing financial services to depository institutions, the U.S.
> government, and foreign official institutions. The Fed also conducts
> research into the economy
>
> SWIFT - The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
> provides a network that enables 9,000+ financial institutions worldwide
> to send and receive information about financial transactions leading to
> the movement of trillions of dollars/Euro/etc. a month around the world.
>
> Google - Google's Payment division is now involved in the workshop,
> which means that we have three of the top five online payment providers
> on board (Alipay and Amazon being the other two that we don't have
> involved yet).
>
> These organizations join the previous big names like Bloomberg,
> Telefónica, the National Association of Convenience Stores, GS1, the
> Internet Society, Yandex, PayPal, AT&T, the GSM Association, Gemalto,
> ingenico, and Worldline along with rising stars like Ripple and Hub
> Culture and leading researchers in the area like Martin Hepp of Good
> Relations.
>
> We wanted to get a very diverse set of groups represented in this
> workshop, and we're certainly off to a good start. Thanks to everyone at
> W3C and the rest of the Web Payments Workshop Program Committee for
> getting this great group of people together.
>
> The next step is to evangelize the workshop and get more participation
> from a broader set of interests than what we already have.
>
> -- 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/
>
>