Re: [Moderator Action] [dpub] 20160822 agenda

As Bill said – it’s the move towards ad-hoc/P2P distribution – both online as well as off – that puts the onus on the UA/RS.

Leonard

From: Bill McCoy <bmccoy@idpf.org>
Date: Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 5:10 PM
To: Boris Anthony <boris@rebus.foundation>
Cc: Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>, "Cramer, Dave" <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, "DPUB mailing list (public-digipub-ig@w3.org)" <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
Subject: Re: [Moderator Action] [dpub] 20160822 agenda


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


B.


> On 25 Aug 2016, at 10 :50 PM, Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com<mailto:lrosenth@adobe.com>> wrote:
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> If the annotations modify the “package”, and there are either technical or licensing reasons that prevent the modification of that “package” – yes.
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> 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”.
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> Leonard
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> On 8/25/16, 4:25 PM, "Cramer, Dave" <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com<mailto:Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>> wrote:
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>    On 8/25/16, 3:56 PM, "Leonard Rosenthol" <lrosenth@adobe.com<mailto:lrosenth@adobe.com>> wrote:
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>> Because not all authors/publishers of PWPs will necessarily allow them to
>> be modified.
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>    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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