- From: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:21:03 +0000
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: "<Andrew.Livingston@bbc.co.uk>" <Andrew.Livingston@bbc.co.uk>, "<public-html-media@w3.org>" <public-html-media@w3.org>
On Feb 11, 2013, at 11:56 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > (Re-sending to the right mailing list.) > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Andrew Livingston > <Andrew.Livingston@bbc.co.uk> wrote: >> 2) We require the ability to securely identify a type of device, and enable >> or disable video playback based upon the answer. >> While the BBC seeks to make as much of its programming as technically >> possible available to all devices, the reality is that it cannot. Content >> from third parties in particular is often licensed for certain platforms >> only, and while we continue to push against this practice where possible it >> still exists as a requirement at this time. Because of this we will need to >> be able to enable or disable availability of some content based on the type >> of platform. The browser user agent is not sufficient for this >> identification. > > Do you mean that the user agent string does not provide enough > information or that the information is not trustworthy enough when its > authenticity is not vouched for by the CDM? If the former, could you > please elaborate on what information is needed that is typically not > in the user agent string? Henri, I can't speak for the BBC's requirements, but for our part the UA string is insufficient because it is not vouched for by the CDM or some other similarly secure component. …Mark > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivonen@iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ > > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivonen@iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ > >
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