WG Decision: Request transition of Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) to Proposed Recommendation

> 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.

Since there were no objections to the content of this CfC from WG members and several indications of support, the resolution passes and we will request the Director to approve transition of Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) to Proposed  Recommendation.

Note that the Formal Objections to EME will be presented to the Director as part of the transition request:

https://dev.w3.org/html5/status/formal-objection-status.html

The EME Editors and Team should update the EME specification with any editorial changes that were found during the CfC [1] and inform the HME WG when the completed document is ready.

/paulc
HME WG Chair

[1] https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/issues/358

From: Paul Cotton [mailto:Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 7:41 PM
To: public-html-media@w3.org
Cc: Philippe Le Hegaret (plh@w3.org) <plh@w3.org>
Subject: CfC: Request transition of Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) to Proposed Recommendation


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:



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,

"The following features are at risk and may be removed:

*        The "persistent-usage-record"<https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/#idl-def-MediaKeySessionType.persistent-usage-record> session type and the related MediaKeySession destroyed<https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/#media-key-session-destroyed> algorithm.

*        Setting the media element's readyState<https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-0.html#dom-media-readystate> value based on key availability in the Wait for Key<https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/#wait-for-key> and Attempt to Resume Playback If Necessary<https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/#resume-playback> algorithms."

*        Support for insecure contexts, including the Are insecure contexts allowed?<http://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-encrypted-media-20160705/#are-insecure-contexts-allowed---deprecated> algorithm and steps that call it.

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



A list of all issues against EME is available at:

https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20

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.



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.



Considerations to note:



- 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<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

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