- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:05:53 -0400
- To: Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca>, public-webpaymentsigcharter <public-webpaymentsigcharter@w3.org>, Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
- CC: David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com>
On 07/16/2014 01:31 PM, Joseph Potvin wrote: > David's tongue-in-cheek comment carries an element of insight that > ought to be addressed. Terminology does matter in communication, > contracting and litigation, and my thoughts are: > > 1. Neither the financial world nor the technology world need yet > another glossary to be maintained. +1 > W3C has a mandate for a certain domain of standards, but this does > not extend to all the terminology touched by its use cases. +1 > I'm only saying that the W3C is not the place for the WB or any > organization to introduce terminology that differs from UNCITRAL and > the ISO terms. +1 That said, I wouldn't want to see a situation where we're waiting on UNCITRAL or ISO for years while they try to define a word for us to use for a new electronic commerce concept around cryptocurrency. In that case, we can mention in the spec that the terminology is non-standard and is being defined and used in the specification until better terminology comes along and is defined via UNCITRAL/ISO. When the better terminology comes along, we can update the spec. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: The Marathonic Dawn of Web Payments http://manu.sporny.org/2014/dawn-of-web-payments/
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