Re: Formal Objection to Working Group Decision to publish Encrypted Media Extensions specification as a First Public Working Draft (FPWD)

Recorded:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/formal-objection-status.html#EME-1

- Sam Ruby

On 05/30/2013 01:56 AM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> This is a Formal Objection against the Working Group Decision to publish
> Encrypted Media Extensions specification as a First Public Working Draft
> (FPWD).
>
> EME is not compatible with the Open Web and can not be made compatible
> with it.
>
> For simplicity I refer to the Formal Objection raised by the EFF
> regarding the HTML WG Draft Charter:
> https://www.eff.org/pages/drm/w3c-formal-objection-html-wg
>
> In addition to that I refer to these two issues:
>
> EME does not allow independent implementation, excluding open source
> implementations.
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20967
>
> That issue was "resolved" by one of the authors of EME as an alleged
> duplicate of another issue:
>
> EME should do more to encourage/ensure CDM-level interop
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20944
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas

Received on Thursday, 30 May 2013 09:07:12 UTC