The World Wide Web Consortium is holding a Workshop on payments. The workshop is intended to be a small, technically oriented meeting of its payments working group. Although it is a members only event I am willing to listen to special pleading, alternatively companies may wish to join the consortium at our extreemely reasonable rates. See http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Consortium/ for details. -- Phillip M. Hallam-Baker Not speaking for anoyone else hallam@w3.org http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/People/hallam.html Information Superhighway -----> Hi-ho! Yow! I'm surfing Arpanet! ANNOUNCE: First W3C Payments WG Meeting, October 11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- What: 1st W3C Payment WG Meeting Where: MIT EECS, Grier Room 34-401 (subject to change) When: Wednesday October 11, 9am - 5pm Who: W3C Member Representatives ONLY URL: First W3C Payments WG Meeting W3C is making progress on supporting electronic payments on the web. This WG Meeting has been called to foster discussion and feedback between W3C and its members. Discussion will focus on proposals to the W3C for payment protocols, interfaces, and e-commerce support. The agenda for the electronic payment workshop is still being settled. At the current time we have confirmed presentations by VISA, IBM, W3C, and the Financial Services Technical Consortium (FSTC). Additional invitations have been issued, and suggestions for additional presentations would be welcome. Contact Phillip Hallam-Baker (hallam@w3.org) or Jim Miller (JMiller@w3.org) with suggestions. There is a separate W3C Security WG Meeting at MIT on Tuesday, October 10th. Contact Rohit Khare for details (khare@w3.org) To RSVP for the Payments WG Meeting, email the coordinator, Phillip Hallam-Baker (hallam@w3.org) or call 617/258-5967 by 5 October. This workshop is aimed at technologists; please include a brief description of any relevant payments work you or your organization are involved in. This is a preliminary announcement of the date and time only. We have arranged for hotel rooms at the Kendall Square Mariott. To qualify for the MIT discount, notify Susan Hardy (susan@w3.org). For a review of the Consortium's plans, see W3C's report on Electronic Payment Schemes and the Third W3C Security Workshop.