[Bug 25434] Remove unsupported informative text in Abstract regarding OOB communication.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25434

--- Comment #11 from Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> ---
(In reply to niels t from comment #7)
> 
> To Mark's points: 
...
> 3) Not sure what the old model is. It does not have a basis for
> interoperability that we want to achieve. If it’s plugins, 
> they are allowing direct communication and are widely used.
> 

At any time since the introduction of the HTML Video Element, web browser
implementors could have chosen to integrate DRMs without modification of the
HTMLVideoElement API, with the DRM having direct network access to communicate
with the license server. So far, they have chosen not to, but they could still
do this with no reference to EME.

The EME effort is specifically aimed at determining what constraints need to be
applied to DRMs in order to convince web browsers to integrate them. This
model, as originally proposed [1] (3.5 years ago), with all application-related
communication mediated by the application, is proving empirically successful.
In fact, millions of desktop browsers users are already using it. The direct
communication model has manifestly failed for desktop web browsers.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2010/11/web-and-tv/slides/netflix.pdf, particularly
slides 10 and 12.

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Received on Wednesday, 15 October 2014 18:16:33 UTC