Re: [minutes] Tuesday 13 January 2009

yet another decision from W3C which goes in the direction of helping 
transcoder vendors transcode more, and against the interest of content 
owners who want to protect their content from transcoders. Congratulations.

Luca

Tom Hume wrote:
>
> Luca
>
> Look from the section "Included resources of a non transformed 
> resource should not be transformed" downwards in the minutes.
>
> In short order we came up with a number of reasons why this wasn't as 
> attractive an idea as it originally seemed, and voted against it:
>
> - resources may not be referenced from markup at all
> - this would shift HTTP from a request/response model to a 
> document/sub-documents model
> - dependencies on sub-documents may be recursive
> - content providers may wish to have documents transformed, but images 
> not transformed
>
> Tom

Received on Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:50:37 UTC