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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

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Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-06-10

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Jun/0039.html
Topics
  1. US Federal Reserve Meeting
  2. Identity Credentials Proof of Concept
  3. Registration-less Purchases
  4. Scalable Whitelisting
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, Pindar Wong, David I. Lehn, Timothy Holborn
Audio Log

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

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-06-02

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Jun/0000.html
Topics
  1. Parametric Selection of Payment Method
  2. The IGF 2014 Workshop on Payments and Identity
  3. App Stores
  4. In-app Purchases
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, Timothy Holborn, David I. Lehn, Pindar Wong, Brent Shambaugh
Audio Log

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

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-05-28

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014May/0139.html
Topics
  1. Is Identity a Distraction?
  2. Memorable Payment Identifiers
  3. Trusting Short Payment Identifiers
  4. Short Payment Identifiers for Donations
  5. Loyalty Cards, Tokenization
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, David I. Lehn, Timothy Holborn, Brent Shambaugh
Audio Log

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

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-05-21

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014May/0102.html
Topics
  1. Web Payments IG Charter Draft
  2. Merchant-initiated payments
  3. Customer-initiated payments
  4. Customer-based selection of payment processor
  5. Payment method switching
  6. Loyalty cards and coupons
  7. Remittances
  8. Purchase-specific need-to-know identity
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, David I. Lehn, Brent Shambaugh
Audio Log

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

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-05-14

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014May/0059.html
Topics
  1. Payment Links
  2. Identity Verification and Trust
  3. Reputation Systems
  4. 3rd Party Signed Digital Credentials
  5. Password-less identity solution
  6. OpenID Connect-based payment initiation
  7. Separation of Privacy and Anonymity
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, 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 2014-05-07

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014May/0016.html
Topics
  1. Decentralized Identifiers
  2. Decentralized Database or Purely Protocol?
  3. The Decentralized Identity URL
  4. Registering a New Decentralized ID
  5. Data Portability
  6. Decentralized ID Decisions
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, 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 2014-04-23

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Apr/0146.html
Topics
  1. Meetings in Silicon Valley Last Week
  2. Internet Identity Workshop
  3. Digest Class to Use ni:// URI Scheme
  4. Range of Nonce
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 2014-04-16

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Apr/0116.html
Topics
  1. Organizing In-the-Field Use Cases
  2. Organizing Web Payments Workshop Use Cases
  3. Use Cases Organizers/Volunteers
  4. Use Cases Output Document
Action Items
  1. Manu to create a page for broad categories for use cases and transfer mailing list use cases to that wiki page.
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, David I. Lehn, Brent Shambaugh
Audio Log

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

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-04-09

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Apr/0018.html
Topics
  1. Internet Governance Forum 2014
  2. Getting United Nations’ CITRAL Involved
  3. Web Payments Workshop Review
  4. Identity, Anonymity, Privacy, and Security
  5. Current and Future Payment Systems
  6. Initiating Payments and Digital Receipts
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Dave Longley
Present
Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, David I. Lehn, Pindar Wong, Joseph Potvin, Brent Shambaugh

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

Web Payments Meeting Minutes for 2014-03-19

Agenda
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Mar/0128.html
Topics
  1. Web Payments Workshop Agenda
  2. Web Payments Mobile Use Cases
  3. Credential-based Login
  4. HTTP Signatures Update
Chair
Manu Sporny
Scribe
Evan Schwartz
Present
Evan Schwartz, Manu Sporny, Brent Shambaugh, Matt Kaufman, Dave Longley, Erik Anderson, David I. Lehn
Audio Log

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