[wg/payments] Web Payments Working Group Charter

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This issue was created because the 'horizontal review requested' label was added to
§ w3c/strategy#501

This review is requested prior to the Advisory Committee Review.

Work has started on a new charter for the Web Payments WG.

Status: As of 28 March 2025 we should send an advance notice to the AC. We are not yet ready for horizontal review.

Charter Review

WPWG 2025 charter

WPWG 2025 charter source

diff from charter template

diff from previous charter

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The charter has changed significantly both in content and into align with the template (so a generated diff is likely not useful). The primary changes are:

• Extended motivation and background section that takes into account the WG's longstanding work on digital wallets for payments (via Payment Request API) and emerging work on digital wallets for identity payments. The goal of this revision of the charter is to position the WG as being able to contribute (if asked) to discussions about payments in the digital credentials ecosystem.
• Similarly, the scope section has been extended to include digital wallets more explicitly.
• There is a new section on tentative deliverables including a concrete proposal from Google for the payment facilitation link type, as well as an opening for a profile for payments in the digital credentials ecosystem.
• Changes to coordination
  • Added: Federated ID WG and OpenID Foundation (related to digital wallets
  • Added: WHATWG for payment facilitation link type
  • Removed: Web App Security WG. We don't interact with them in practice.
  • Removed: Berlin Group (though we periodically have conversations with them; there is no dependency at this point).
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What kind of charter is this? Existing WG recharter.

• If this is a charter extension or revision, any issue discussion:

Horizontal Reviews: apply the Github label "Horizontal review requested" to request reviews for accessibility (a11y), internationalization (i18n), privacy, security, and TAG.

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Please send feedback to [email protected] (archive).

Anything else we should think about as we review?

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