[Taler] W3C web payments interest group and working group

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

The W3C has a "web payments interest group" [1], that has already produced
some documents [2][3][4].

Furthermore, the W3C has opened a "web payments working group" this week
[5][6][7]. Its charter is at [8], [9].

I don't see GNU nor the INRIA nor the TU München represented among the
members of this interest group [10] or the working group [11].

1) Can someone tell whether the "use cases" document [4] can accommodate
   the way Taler works?

2) In my experience, when standardization takes place and you are not
   involved in this standardization, often the resulting standard does
   not accommodate your architecture or requirements, and then you are
   in an up-hill battle position.
   Taler IMO already has a challenging adoption problem: chicken&egg
   problem, the clients and merchants and mints must adopt it at the
   same pace. If additionally the W3C web payment recommendations that
   comes out is in conflict with Taler's design, adoption could be
   even harder, due to technical issues.

   Therefore: is there a plan that Taler has a representative in this
   working group?

Bruno

[1] http://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/
[2] http://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/Vision
[3] http://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/Roadmap/
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/web-payments-use-cases/
[5] http://www.w3.org/Payments/WG/
[6] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-payments-wg/2015Oct/0000.html
[7] 
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/W3C-gruendet-Arbeitsgruppe-fuer-einheitliches-Bezahlen-im-Internet-2852566.html
[8] http://www.w3.org/Payments/WG/charter-201510.html
[9] https://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/wiki/Web_Payments_WG_Charter_FAQ
[10] https://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=73816&public=1
[11] https://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=83744&public=1