Re: [NISO sc34ballots] Groups - Ballot reminder: "ISO/IEC/DTS 23078, Specification of DRM technology for e-book content"

I spotted that several people in this thread are worried about a mention is the proposed documents (which is not a spec, but a proposal for a project to build a spec), that could mean that publishers, not distributors, have to apply the DRM. 

I'm positive stating that this is a false assumption from reader of the document: in the version of the documents I have (passed to me by DRM Inside), we read in 6.2 Usage Scenarios that "the publisher who created the EPUB e-book encrypts the EPUB e-book using the standard DRM technology and submits it to the EPUB e-book deposit institution". This an informative section (a use case section), not requirements section by any means. 
 
DRM Inside conflated the role of the publisher and the role of the distributor. This is unfortunate, but they are from a technical company, maybe not totally aware of publishing workflows. Or this may be a translation issue (from Korean). This can be corrected by a remark from George's par. 

The fact is that this proposal is to standardize LCP at an ISO level, so that they can promote it in their country and Japan. 
 
Best regards, 

Laurent Le Meur
EDRLab