- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:14:14 -0800
- To: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "<public-html@w3.org>" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thursday 2012-03-01 18:06 +0000, Mark Watson wrote: > Reading your mail I have a feeling we are talking a little at > crossed purposes. Part of this could be because the proposal is > not yet clear enough on the nature of CDMs and these discussions > are very helpful in eeking out the issues which need to be > explained/addressed. > > To clarify: > - a browser can have multiple CDMs for different keysystems > - what we propose to standardize is the discovery, selection and > interaction with CDMs, not the CDMs themselves (not unlike the > current situation with codecs). > > The proposal doesn't restrict how browsers integrate with CDMs, > how they are installed, discovered by browsers etc. This is up to > browser developers and there are many options. Most of your > questions are about commercial choices by browser developers and > CDM developers. You say there are many options. But many people on this list don't know what the space of options looks like: how many options they are, what characteristics the options have, etc. Could you describe the current market in key systems, as I asked in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Feb/0366.html ? -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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