The Working Group met remotely 27-29 March (agenda and minutes). After a successful in-person meeting at TPAC 2022 we had wanted to meet in-person again, but fell back to remote due to scheduling challenges. Co-Chair Nick Telford-Reed opened the meeting … Continue reading
After a three-year hiatus, W3C held TPAC 2022 in person in Vancouver. It was really great to be back in person, and I heard that sentiment from just about everyone. More than 360 people registered to attend TPAC in person … Continue reading
TPAC 2022 will be a hybrid event: in-person in Vancouver, with remote participation. I believe more than 600 people have registered, and it looks like more than 350 people will attend in person. This will be my first in-person meeting … Continue reading
In early May the Web Payments Working Group held an energetic remote meeting; see the agenda and minutes. While we were meeting, the FIDO Alliance released a press release with headline Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for … Continue reading
The Web Payments Working Group held a remote meeting 25-28 October (agenda, minutes) as part of TPAC 2021. The meeting took place one week after TPAC breakouts, which included sessions I think were of particular interest to the payments industry, … Continue reading
An important goal of Secure Payment Confirmation (SPC) is to streamline strong customer authentication (SCA). One way to reduce friction is to allow many authentications for a given registration. In other words, ideally the user registers once and can then … Continue reading
Today W3C published Proposed Recommendations for Payment Request API and Payment Method Identifiers. Congratulations to the Working Group! I want to extend heartfelt thanks to all the editors over the years whose contributions have brought us to this point.
We are building the agenda of the Web Payments Working Group’s next virtual meeting, 25-28 October. The meeting is part of TPAC 2021, and so are planning several joint discussions with other W3C groups, notably on topics of Web Authentication, … Continue reading
My congratulations to the Web Payments Working Group for the publication today of Secure Payment Confirmation (SPC) as a First Public Working Draft. The specification is taking shape in part thanks to experimentation by Adyen and Airbnb, the results of … Continue reading
I want to share two updates from the Web Payments Working Group. The first is that we are preparing a slimmed down version of Payment Request API version 1 to advance to Recommendation by early August. Privacy and internationalization reviews … Continue reading