- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 20:20:15 -0700
- To: Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm>
- Cc: public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
On Jul 5, 2013, at 17:56 , Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm> wrote: >> Perhaps we've noticed this issue too late; perhaps if we had been more >> active in the W3C *before* we heard of the EME proposal through the >> media, we might have had an opportunity to debate the more fundamental >> issues (such as, whether the W3C should be working on DRM at all). > > In fact, here's a serious question about this: at what point would it > have not been too late? > > If I (or the EFF) had wanted to put our oar in and do some "stopping" - > i.e., actually debate the fundamental issues rather than the > implementation - when *could* we have acted? > > Please forgive my relative ignorance of W3C processes, but it's not at > all clear to me how that might have happened. I'd certainly like to > know, for next time if nothing else. I'll give you one point: 'stopping' something is much harder than offering a better alternative. In general, saying "I don't like X" doesn't carry much weight in any body I know. "I think Y is a better solution for the following reasons" gets a whole lot more traction. David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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