Re: A first draft of the future Web Payments Interest group is available for comments from Tobie Langel on 2014-05-27 (public-webpaymentsigcharter@w3.org from May 2014)

From: Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 18:35:34 +0200
To: Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca>
Cc: David Ezell <David_E3@verifone.com>, Stephane Boyera <boyera@w3.org>, "team-webpayments-workshop-announcement@w3.org" <team-webpayments-workshop-announcement@w3.org>, "public-webpaymentsigcharter@w3.org" <public-webpaymentsigcharter@w3.org>
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On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca> wrote:

> Is there some advantage in W3C diverging the terminology from that
> which lawyers worldwide would normally use?
>

I don't think lawyers are or should be W3C's target audience. In cases
where technical or colloquial terminology differs from legal one, the
former should be preferred, especially if the latter is possibly confusing.

--tobie

Received on Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:36:01 UTC