eBay/PayPal concerns with web-payments.org

[msporny]

Daniel Austin wrote:

My colleagues here at eBay became aware of this site (web-payments.org) and are expressing some concern:

The rest of the email thread can be found here:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Jan/0061.html

After discussing with W3C, the following modifications could be made to the website to address some of the messaging concerns:

• Attempt to clearly specify that the CG is not endorsed by the W3C, but it is also designed to create material that may be fed into W3C or other standardization bodies like the IETF.
• Make a clear statement that although this work is not yet on the W3C recommendation track, as it matures, the community will evaluate whether or not they want to petition W3C to elevate it to the standards track.
• Specify that the "Who" is a community that wants to build payments into the core architecture of the Web.
• Remove "ailing financial infrastructure" statement at top of page with something more upbeat.
• Specify liason groups that the community will engage while performing the work.
• Create a page for a charter for the group.