Updated text related to non-member participation.

Author: ianbjacobs

2025/payments-wg.html

@@ -539,7 +539,9 @@ <h2 id="participation">
           The group encourages questions, comments and issues on its public mailing lists and document repositories, as described in <a href='#communication'>Communication</a>.
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-          The group also welcomes non-Members to contribute technical submissions for consideration upon their agreement to the terms of the <a href="https://www.w3.org/policies/patent-policy/">W3C Patent Policy</a>.
+          The Chairs should periodically look through the non-Members who have contributed to the Working Group and consider whether each one should be invited to 
+	participate as an <a href="https://www.w3.org/invited-experts/">Invited Expert</a>. If a non-Member contributor would like to participate in meetings, 
+        they are encouraged to <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/payments/instructions/">apply to be an Invited Expert</a>.
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         <p>Participants in the group are required (by the <a href="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#ParticipationCriteria">W3C Process</a>) to follow the
           W3C <a href="https://www.w3.org/policies/code-of-conduct/">Code of Conduct</a>.</p>