Re: CfC: Request transition of Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) to Proposed Recommendation

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From: David Singer
Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2016 10:55
To: Paul Cotton;
Cc: public-html-media@w3.org<mailto:public-html-media@w3.org>;Philippe Le Hegaret;
Subject:Re: CfC: Request transition of Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) to Proposed Recommendation


> On Nov 1, 2016, at 16:41 , Paul Cotton > wrote:<mailto:<Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>
>
> In accordance with the W3C process's requirement to record the group's decision to request advancement [1], this is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to request transition to Proposed Recommendation for the following Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) document:

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> https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/
>
> with the following additional changes:
> 1.      Removal of the following material about "at risk" features from the Status of this Document,
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> "The following features are at risk and may be removed:
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> *        The "persistent-usage-record" session type and the related MediaKeySession destroyed algorithm.
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> *        Setting the media element's readyState value based on key availability in the Wait for Key and Attempt to Resume Playback If Necessary algorithms."
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> *        Support for insecure contexts, including the Are insecure contexts allowed? algorithm and steps that call it.
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> 2.      Removal of the "persistent-usage-record" "at risk" feature as per ISSUE-353 [2].
> Notes:
> a)      The "at risk" feature on readyState will NOT be removed.  See ISSUE-336 [3].
> b)     The "at risk" feature on insecure contexts was removed in July as per ISSUE-220 [4].
>
> For your reference, there is list of recent commits to the EME specification:
> https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/commits/gh-pages/encrypted-media-respec.html
>
> The following is a breakdown of the issues processed since the EME issues were triaged in March 2016 [5] for the Candidate Recommendation specification [6]:
> 53 V1 issues: https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/milestone/1?closed=1
> 59 V1Editorial issues: https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/milestone/4?closed=1
> 33 V1NonBlocking issues: https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/milestone/3?closed=1
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> A list of all issues against EME is available at:
> https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/issues?utf8=?&q=is:issue
> and a list of issues NOT dealt with in this cycle and assigned to the VNext milestone is available at:
> https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/milestone/2
>
> Test results for this specification can be found at [7-9].  An updated analysis of the test results is available at [10].  Note that we plan to continue updating the EME test results until we present the draft Proposed Recommendation to the W3C Director.
>
> Formal Objections against EME are recorded at:
> https://dev.w3.org/html5/status/formal-objection-status.html
> These formal objections will be reviewed when we present the Proposed Recommendation to the W3C Director.
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> Silence will be taken to mean there is no objection, but positive responses are encouraged. If there are no objections by Tuesday November 8, this resolution will carry.
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> Considerations to note:
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> - A request to advance indicates that the Working Group believes the specification is stable and appropriate for advancement to Recommendation status.
>
> /paulc
> HME WG Chair
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#transition-reqs
> [2] https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/issues/353
> [3] https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/issues/336
> [4] https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/issues/220
> [5]  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2016Mar/0003.html
> [6]  http://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-encrypted-media-20160705/
> [7] http://w3c.github.io/test-results/encrypted-media/all.html
> [8] https://w3c.github.io/test-results/encrypted-media/less-than-2.html
> [9] https://w3c.github.io/test-results/encrypted-nedia/complete-fails.html
> [10] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2016Oct/0064.html
>
> Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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Dave Singer

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