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Web Payments Community Group

This group closed on 18 December 2020. What follows is the original mission statement.

The purpose of the Web Payments Community Group is to discuss, research, prototype, and create working systems that enable Universal Payment for the Web. The goal is to create a safe, decentralized system and a set of open, patent and royalty-free specifications that allow people on the Web to send each other money as easily as they exchange instant messages and e-mail today. The group will focus on transforming the way we reward each other on the Web as well as how we organize financial resources to enhance our personal lives and pursue endeavors that improve upon the human condition.

web-payments

Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time

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final reports / licensing info

date name commitments
Web Payments CG Use Cases 1.0 Licensing commitments

drafts / licensing info

name
Web Payments Design Principles 1.0
Web Payments CG Roadmap 1.0
Web Payments CG Commerce 1.0
Web Payments CG Web Commerce API 1.0
Web Payments CG Commerce Vocabulary 1.0
Web Payments CG Web Payments Vocabulary 1.0
Web Payments CG HTTP Signatures 1.0
Web Payments CG Secure Messaging 1.0
Web Payments CG Security Vocabulary 1.0

Chairs, when logged in, may publish draft and final reports. Please see report requirements.

This group does not have a Chair and thus cannot publish new reports. Learn how to choose a Chair.

Call for Final Specification Commitments for Web Payments CG Use Cases 1.0

On 2015-02-23 The Web Payments Community Group published the following specification:

This is a call for Final Specification Commitments. To provide greater patent protection for this specification, participants in the Web Payments Community Group are now invited make commitments under the W3C Community Final Specification Agreement by completing the commitment form. Current commitments are listed on the Web. There is no deadline for making commitments.

If you represent a W3C Member, please contact your Advisory
Committee Representative, who is the person from your organization
authorized to complete the commitment form.

If you have any questions, please contact the group on their public list: public-webpayments@w3.org. Learn more about the Web Payments Community Group.

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2015-01-13

Agenda
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2015Jan/0007.html
Topics
  1. Web Payments IG Update
  2. Credentials CG Update
  3. Upcoming Events
  4. Coordination and priority on work items
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, Timothy Holborn, Manu Sporny, David I. Lehn
Audio Log

Detailed minutes and recorded audio for this call are available in the archive.

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-12-03

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Dec/0000.html
Topics
  1. Scaling Teleconferences Back
  2. Web Payments IG Update
  3. Planning for next several months
  4. Release of Payswarm Source Code
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, David I. Lehn, Manu Sporny, Brent Shambaugh
Audio Log

Detailed minutes and recorded audio for this call are available in the archive.

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-11-12

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Nov/0050.html
Topics
  1. Financial Innovation Forum 2014
  2. W3C TPAC Web Payments Face-to-face Review
  3. W3C TPAC Hallway Discussion
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Manu Sporny and David I. Lehn
Present
Manu Sporny, Pindar Wong, David I. Lehn
Audio Log

Detailed minutes and recorded audio for this call are available in the archive.

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-10-22

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Oct/0102.html
Topics
  1. Financial Innovation Forum 2014
  2. Introduction to Jorge Zaccaro (Playbanq)
  3. W3C TPAC – Web Payments CG Presentation
  4. Presentation to W3C Membership
  5. W3C TPAC – Web Payments IG Agenda
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, Pindar Wong, Jorge Zaccaro, David I. Lehn
Audio Log

Detailed minutes and recorded audio for this call are available in the archive.

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-10-15

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Oct/0058.html
Topics
  1. Introduction to James Dailey from Mifos
  2. W3C TPAC – Web Payments CG Presentation
  3. Web Payments Roadmap Review
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, James Dailey, David I. Lehn, Evgeny Vinogradov
Audio Log

Detailed minutes and recorded audio for this call are available in the archive.

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-10-08

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Oct/0029.html
Topics
  1. Apple Pay
  2. Agenda Bashing for W3C TPAC
  3. Web Payments Roadmap
Action Items
  1. Manu to remind Web Payments CG to vote on use cases.
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, Brent Shambaugh, David I. Lehn
Audio Log

Detailed minutes and recorded audio for this call are available in the archive.

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-10-01

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Sep/0160.html
Topics
  1. Status of Web Payments Use Cases Vote
  2. Agenda Bashing for W3C TPAC
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, Adrian Hope-Bailie, David I. Lehn, Evgeny Vinogradov
Audio Log

Detailed minutes and recorded audio for this call are available in the archive.

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-09-24

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Sep/0121.html
Topics
  1. W3C TPAC and Web Payments announcement
  2. Payment Processor Selection
  3. Wallet Portability
  4. Payment Tokens
  5. Legacy Payment Systems
  6. Multiple authorization levels
  7. Smart Contracts
  8. Machine-readable licenses
  9. Unclassified/Unreviewed use cases
  10. Voting on the Use Cases
Resolutions
  1. There will be a vote on all of the use cases that the group has revised over the past 3 months with an option to make additional comments on each individual use case.
  2. Open a vote by the end of the week on the whether or not to accept the use case document as the CG’s official position, the vote will be open for 2 weeks from the time the polls open.
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, Pindar Wong, David I. Lehn, Evgeny Vinogradov, Timothy Holborn
Audio Log

Detailed minutes and recorded audio for this call are available in the archive.

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-09-17

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Sep/0067.html
Topics
  1. W3C TPAC Web Payments / Credentials Agenda
  2. Payment Initiation / Wallet Use Case Revisions
  3. In-app Purchases
  4. Registration-less purchasing
  5. Payment UIs and Buyer Authorization
  6. Finishing out the use cases
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, David I. Lehn, Pindar Wong, Timothy Holborn, Evgeny Vinogradov
Audio Log

Detailed minutes and recorded audio for this call are available in the archive.