RE: Trust

Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 08:34:25 -0700
From: watsonm@netflix.com
To: dhgbayne@fastmail.fm
CC: singer@apple.com; public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Subject: Re: Trust





No, it's the position of the W3C as stated on their website.
Where ? And anyway, what the web "is" is not defined by you or I or the W3C but by the hundreds of millions of people who contribute to and make use of it every day. It is through their many and varied decisions of what content to publish, what services to invent, what sites to visit and contribute to (including monetarily if they choose) that the web is defined. No bold statements or manifestos can constrain it, thankfully.

Unfortunately the proponents of the EME are attempting to constrain the open web.  You want to prevent people innovating in ways that do not suit you, to use laws to persecute people adding features to their user agent and distributing user agents with innovative features.  The EME is an anti-feature, a land grab on the web, an attempt to define the web to suit your own needs.  You are 100% right, no bold EME spec, or you, Netfix, Tim, the W3C, Microsoft, Google, can constrain it - so don't try.

cheers
Fred