Re: [apps-discuss] Proposal for a Finance Area Mailing List

Probably Ryan will be interested in participate too.
I agree that the discussion would be better in a "neutral" forum, I
was just suggesting forums to "join the people together" if it is
necessary to start the new mailing list.
If you want, I can start a thread in the bitcoin-dev mailing list to
get more people interested in the protocol.

On 3/15/12, Walter <walter.stanish@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your support Jorge, and welcome to the effort :)
>
> With regards to forum location, I think the main difficulty with using
> an established forum is that most people come from a certain community
> with interest and experience that is generally more focused on certain
> aspects of internet based financial exchange.
>
> For example, it would be unreasonable to expect people involved in
> mobile operator billing to be familiar with mutual credit systems,
> just as it would be unreasonable to expect people involved with high
> frequency trading on stock exchanges to be familiar with credit card
> settlement anti-fraud rule weightings.
>
> The establishment of a unique forum under the IETF provides the
> capacity for different groups to come together - without being under
> the banner of any particular one - to look at issues of
> interoperability and leverage the skills, insight and experience of
> other parties.  It also means that there's an established and proven
> procedure for getting things done (eventually formalized),  resolving
> questions of consensus fairly, etc.
>
> Anyway, Ripple brings a very unique and relevant perspective to
> forward looking internet finance and I am really glad that you are
> joining in. Looking forward to working together on the new list!
>
> Regards,
> Walter Stanish
> Payward, Inc.
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Jorge Timón