- From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
- Date: 31 May 2013 11:51:47 +0200
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: "John Foliot" <john@foliot.ca>, "Sam Ruby" <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, "public-html-admin@w3.org" <public-html-admin@w3.org>, public-html-media@w3.org, jeff@w3.org, "public-restrictedmedia@w3.org" <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>
Tab Atkins Jr.: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:55 PM, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> wrote: >> Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >>> That's a lot of words for just trying to state a variant of "you're >>> intolerant if you don't tolerate intolerance". >> >> Actually Tab, not exactly. >> >> I am suggesting that if the web is to truly remain Open, *anyone* >> can contribute a standard to the larger stack, and that no one group >> or philosophy should set themselves up as gatekeepers, which is the >> net effect of what the EFF and others appear to be attempting to do. > > That's exactly what I said. Trying to assert that it's "not truly > Open" to block things that reduce open-ness is double-talk. It would be double-talk if it leads to a contradiction. But that depends on the definitions of "Open" and "open-ness". One problem seems to be that there is no agreement regarding the definition of "Open Web Platform" within the W3C. So far that might not have been a big problem, but it is one in the context of DRM and EME. Some potentially relevant material is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard But the W3C belongs to the official supporters of Open Stand. One of the principles is: "Balance. Standards activities are not exclusively dominated by any particular person, company or interest group." Another Open Stand principle is: "Commitment by affirming standards organizations and their participants to collective empowerment by striving for standards that ... provide global interoperability ..." http://open-stand.org/principles/ EME is not only dominated by an interest group (DRM proponents) but it is by design ignoring another interest group (the Open Source community) because DRM is globally not interoperable with an Open Source environment. *** Please send replies to public-restrictedmedia@w3.org. Thanks. Cheers, Andreas
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