Web Payments Working Group Meeting in Dublin at Airbnb

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Last month, W3C renewed the charter of the Web Payments Working Group through 2021. The new charter is similar to the previous one, but added explicit mention of a Recommendation-track deliverable related to the use of EMV® Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) via Payment Request API.At the end of March we will hold our next face-to-face meeting in Dublin, hosted by Airbnb. Our agenda is still rough, but I anticipate discussion of an SRC payment method, the status of browser support for Payment Request and Payment Handler, updates from the joint task force between WPWG and the Web Authentication Working Group, some merchant experiences with the APIs, and perhaps some discussion of the current Irish and/or EU payments landscape. Given the strong customer authentication (SCA) requirements of Europe’s Payment Services Directive (PSD2), I also expect a special focus on streamlined integration of Web Authentication into payments flows.Regarding SRC, between now and the face-to-face meeting, we ar…