Re: W3C Advisory Committee discussions on DRM compatibility in HTML

Hi Catherine,

Catherine Roy <ecrire@catherine-roy.net>, 2013-06-17 09:47 -0400:

> Hi,
> 
> I am  not sure where to ask this question so I will ask it here and if this
> is not the appropriate forum, please let me know where to ask.
> 
> On June 6th, a member of W3C staff wrote (in a personal capacity) in a
> Guardian article the following:
> 
> "The members of the W3C Advisory Committee will be trying to reach consensus
> on the decision to include DRM compatibility in HTML on Monday [June 10] in
> Japan ."
> 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/06/html5-drm-w3c-open-web

That was a reference to a discussion scheduled for the at-the-time-upcoming
face-to-face meeting of the W3C Advisory Committee meeting. I don't think
it was intended as any kind of signal that a public summary of any results
of the discussion would necessarily follow.

> I may have missed it and I am not familiar with all the intricacies of W3C
> process so for the record, has or will W3C release information about
> discussions on this issue and what the results were ?

The records of W3C Advisory Committee face-to-face meetings themselves are
not made available publicly. The W3C AC representatives discuss a variety
things with one another -- both at twice-a-year face-to-face meetings like
that one last week, and in between those meetings. The W3C staff doesn't
report publicly on details of discussions that take place among W3C AC reps.

People from organizations represented in the W3C AC and people from the W3C
leadership/staff do continue to be actively involved in public discussion
about the general topic of technologies for restricting access to Web media
and more specifically about the Encrypted Media Extensions specification --
in ongoing discussions on the public-html-* lists and in the Restricted
Media Community Group and through postings to the W3C blog and elsewhere.

So if you have specific questions on this topic to ask of representatives
from W3C member organizations or from the W3C staff, the public-html and
the public-restrictedmedia@w3.org mailing lists are good places to ask.

  --Mike

-- 
Michael[tm] Smith http://people.w3.org/mike

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