RE: WG Decision to publish a “Encrypted Media Extensions" heartbeat Working Draft

> There has been absolutely no progress of EME regarding the Formal Objection. I doubt that the authors intend to resolve the raised issue.

Your Formal Objection [1] contains two points:

a) the EFF objection on whether the matter was in scope which has been dealt with by the Director, and

b) EME does not allow independent implementation, excluding open source implementations
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20967


Your objection [1] acknowledged has been marked as a duplicate of:

EME should do more to encourage/ensure CDM-level Interop  
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20944

The candidate EME heartbeat WD highlights that Bug 20944 is still unresolved with a specific reference to in the Status section of the WD [2]:

 Note: It is an open issue whether and how the spec should do more to encourage/ensure CDM-level interop. See Bug 20944.

You can draw whatever conclusion you want on the progress of Bug 20944 but I do believe the Media TF has been trying to deal with this bug over the summer.  There have been over 15 posts by Media TF members to bug 20944 since late July and I hardly believe that can be taken as an indication of lack of work on the bug.

The Media TF does agree that bug 20944 is still not fully resolved and we will continue to work on it.  If you want to assist in this you could make a concrete proposal for text to be added to the EME document that you think will resolve the bug.

/paulc
HTML WG co-chair

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-admin/2013May/0138.html 
[2] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-media/encrypted-media-wd.html 

Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Kuckartz [mailto:a.kuckartz@ping.de] 
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 4:36 PM
To: public-html-admin@w3.org
Cc: Paul Cotton
Subject: Re: WG Decision to publish a “Encrypted Media Extensions" heartbeat Working Draft

Paul Cotton:
> The Chairs note that there is one outstanding Formal Objection on the 
> EME specification [3-4].  This Formal Objection and any request to 
> move the EME specification off the Recommendation Track as per [5] 
> will be dealt with by the Chairs no earlier than when the HTML WG 
> considers moving EME to Last Call and no later than when the HTML WG 
> considers moving EME into Candidate Recommendation status.
>
> [3] http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/formal-objection-status.html

> [4]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-admin/2013May/0138.html

> [5]
http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy-v3.html#note-vs-rec


There has been absolutely no progress of EME regarding the Formal Objection. I doubt that the authors intend to resolve the raised issue.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Thursday, 3 October 2013 21:04:57 UTC