Web Payments Interest Group Charter draft ready for review

The W3C has just published a draft copy of the future W3C Web Payments
Interest Group charter. This is the group that will be deciding which
use cases and requirements should be considered and which official
working groups should be created to standardize the Web Payments work.

Here's the introductory blog post:

http://www.w3.org/community/webpaymentsigcharter/2014/05/15/first-draft-of-future-web-payments-interest-group-charter-published/

and the email to the charter development CG:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpaymentsigcharter/2014May/0000.html

The charter looks good and very much aligned with the work we've been
doing in this group. There is really only one thing about the charter
that is concerning:

The option to run the payments work in a closed group, except for the
publication of drafts, is now on the table. This is concerning because
the public would lose visibility into the development process for the
specifications (and it would make the process not very different from
the way just about every other financial standard is developed). If this
technology is going to serve the best interests of the world, it should
be created in public. If this, or any other part of the charter concerns
you, please send feedback to:

public-webpaymentsigcharter@w3.org

-- manu

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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/

Received on Thursday, 15 May 2014 13:28:28 UTC