Re: Enabling DRM Task Force Re: ACTION-209: Set up an encrypted media proposal task force from Charles Pritchard on 2012-03-16 (public-html@w3.org from March 2012)

From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:27:27 -0700
To: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
CC: public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <4F62B31F.4010803@jumis.com>

On 3/15/2012 8:23 PM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> On 14.03.2012 22:40, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>> I suggest changing the name from
>> HTML WG Media Task Force to HTML WG
>> Encrypted Media Task Force, based on the expected focus.
> The expected focus seems to be less about encryption of media in general
> but about enabling DRM. Maybe it should be named accordingly.

Perhaps the focus should be broadened, to enable secure streaming of 
media, in addition to gaining consensus about media processing 
extensions of which there are now a handful, mostly implemented in 
Chrome; and typically proposed first by Mozilla.

-Charles

Received on Friday, 16 March 2012 03:27:50 UTC