Re: Campaign for position of chair and mandate to close this community group

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Andreas Kuckartz <a.kuckartz@ping.de>wrote:

> Fred Andrews:
> > but the W3C has already decided to recharter the HTML WG
> > to include content protection including DRM and thus have endorsed DRM
> > as consistent with the principles of the web.
>
> That is not entirely correct.
>
> "supporting playback of protected content" was added to the charter, but
> that term was left undefined and DRM is not mentioned in the charter:
> http://www.w3.org/2013/09/html-charter.html
>
> Some people consider watermarking to be a (weak) form of DRM and content
> protection.
>
> And there currently exists no common understanding regarding the terms
> "open" and "open standard" within the W3C.
>

Regarding "open standard" I believe the W3C has signed up to
open-stand.org.


>
> *If* Tim Bernes-Lee and the W3C decide to promote a specification to
> become an "open standard" which can not be implemented using copyleft
> Open Source licenses due to a fundamental incompatibility *then* the
> discussion here would have failed. So far such a decision does not seem
> to have been made.
>

FWIW, EME *can* be fully implemented under a copyleft open source license
on platforms that expose the necessary capabilities. That is presently only
Windows, but nontheless.

...Mark



>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
>