Re: Web Payments CG Charter Proposal

On 01/10/2014 07:10 PM, Steven Rowat wrote:
> Major Concern:
> The emphasis on ‘technologies’ in both Goals and Scope, and explicit
> statement that ‘economic or political theory’ is out of scope, leaves
> the entire Charter open to be used as a platform by existing corporate
> or government bodies for their own ends without due attention to what
> has been, to this point, an important goal and operating principle of
> the group: using web technology to make direct financial transactions
> between individuals as easy as those between groups and organizations.
> 
> I don’t believe this is intentional, but I believe the wording in Goals
> is insufficient to make this clear at present. I suggest that a small
> change to the second sentence in the ‘Goals’ section can address this
> (suggested section in brackets):
> 
> "The goal is to create safe, decentralized systems and sets of open,
> patent and royalty-free technologies that allow [both individual people
> and organizations] on the Web to send each other money as easily as they
> exchange instant messages and e-mail today."

Agreed. Done.

> Minor concern:
> At the end of the last sentence in “Goals”, I believe it reads more
> logically if you cut the last “the”, since you aren’t discussing two
> particular technologies and you might have more than two submitted at
> once. I suggest it would read:
> “...or a clear differentiation emerging between [] two technologies.”

Done.

http://www.w3.org/community/webpayments/wiki/index.php?title=WebPaymentsCommunityGroupCharterProposal&diff=274&oldid=273

Thanks, Steven!

-- manu

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Received on Monday, 13 January 2014 02:54:59 UTC