Re: [Moderator Action] [dpub] 20160822 agenda

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Boris Anthony <boris@rebus.foundation>
wrote:

> How about if the onus of keeping something locked is on the entity
> desiring it to be so, and not encoding that capability into the medium and
> making extra work for UA/RS to track user additions/modification?
>
> That’s how it is with Kindle et al now. They should continue doing it that
> way.
>

That is not at all how it is with PDF now. We can't presume a central
server/service and need to keep in mind use cases for ad hoc (P2P) document
distribution (as well as the re-decentralized Web).

--Bill


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> B.
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> > On 25 Aug 2016, at 10 :50 PM, Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > If the annotations modify the “package”, and there are either technical
> or licensing reasons that prevent the modification of that “package” – yes.
> >
> > Of course, that doesn’t mean that a given UA/RS couldn’t keep the
> annotations physically separate from the publication and “merge them on the
> fly”.
> >
> > Leonard
> >
> > On 8/25/16, 4:25 PM, "Cramer, Dave" <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com> wrote:
> >
> >    On 8/25/16, 3:56 PM, "Leonard Rosenthol" <lrosenth@adobe.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Because not all authors/publishers of PWPs will necessarily allow them
> to
> >> be modified.
> >
> >
> >    Most of what Boris mentioned sounded to me more like annotations than
> >    modification of content. Are there use cases for preventing
> annotations of
> >    a PWP?
> >
> >    Dave
> >
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