Re: Formal objections to Encrypted Media Extensions

For the record, I think that this is profoundly disappointing and
procedurally ill-advised, and ask you to reconsider.

Cory

On 09/06/2016 11:26 AM, Paul Cotton wrote:
> The HME WG has recently received several Formal Objections to EME
> progressing to Proposed Recommendation.   
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> These recent formal objections are listed below:
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> a) ISSUE-288: "EME is not intended to be an interface to technical
> protection measures"
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> https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/issues/288
> 
> Author: Wendy Seltzer
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> b) ISSUE-304: Turn off EME by default and activate only with express
> permission from user
> 
> https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/issues/304
> 
> Author: Harry Halpin
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> c) ISSUE-305: Formal objection to Encrypted Media Extensions advancing
> to Proposed Recommendation
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> https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/issues/305
> 
> Author:  Ruben Rodriguez
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> 
> Since these formal objections:
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> a)      cannot be satisfied without making “substantive changes” [1] to
> the EME specification or halting work on the specification entirely, and/or
> 
> b)     are identical to previous formal objections that the Director has
> chosen not to sustain, and/or
> 
> c)      there is no consensus within the HME WG for the required changes
> especially this late in the EME specification development,
> 
> in my role as HME WG Chair I am ruling that these issues should be
> closed with no action for EME V1.
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>  
> 
> Each of these Formal Objections will be added to the summary page of
> formal objections [1] and will be presented to the Director when he
> reviews a request to progress EME to Proposed Recommendation status.
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> 
> FTR I responded with background earlier on the topic of EME formal
> objections in:
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> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2016Aug/0081.html
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> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2016Aug/0078.html
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> /paulc
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> HME WG Chair
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#substantive-change
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> [2] https://dev.w3.org/html5/status/formal-objection-status.html
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> Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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