Re: Removing EME persistent-usage-record "at risk" feature

On 10/27/2016 11:54 AM, Mark Watson wrote:
>> On Oct 27, 2016, at 5:14 AM, Philippe Le Hégaret <plh@w3.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/26/2016 9:10 PM, Mark Watson wrote:
>>> My question, though, is whether EME V2 should take the form of a
>>> completely new version of the specification that would (eventually)
>>> replace the existing one​, or whether we should have a stand-alone
>>> specification adding the "persistent-usage-record" session type. The
>>> latter is hard to do without monkey-patching unless we introduce
>>> explicit extension points.
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> here is what I would recommend we do:
>>
>> We don't touch the gh-pages branch. Instead, we create a V1 branch for
>> now and use that one to remove whatever we need to.
>
> Ok, so in this case the Editor's Draft at the normal
> ED github link will still contain the feature and I suppose becomes
> (de facto, but not officially) an ED of V2.
>
> This is ok for me.

correct.

>> If folks want to
>> publish a separate Note for the removed feature, there will always be
>> time to remove the feature from the gh-pages branch later on.
>
> My hope is that the removed feature is standardized at a later time,
> since I do not expect it will be that long before there are compliant
> implementations (perhaps early next year).

Understood.

Philippe

Received on Thursday, 27 October 2016 16:07:05 UTC