- From: Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 12:17:16 -0400
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- CC: Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
On 7/6/2013 11:20 PM, David Singer wrote: > On Jul 5, 2013, at 17:56 , Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >>> Perhaps we've noticed this issue too late; perhaps if we had been more >>> active in the W3C *before* we heard of the EME proposal through the >>> media, we might have had an opportunity to debate the more fundamental >>> issues (such as, whether the W3C should be working on DRM at all). >> In fact, here's a serious question about this: at what point would it >> have not been too late? >> >> If I (or the EFF) had wanted to put our oar in and do some "stopping" - >> i.e., actually debate the fundamental issues rather than the >> implementation - when *could* we have acted? >> >> Please forgive my relative ignorance of W3C processes, but it's not at >> all clear to me how that might have happened. I'd certainly like to >> know, for next time if nothing else. > > I'll give you one point: 'stopping' something is much harder than offering a better alternative. > > In general, saying "I don't like X" doesn't carry much weight in any body I know. "I think Y is a better solution for the following reasons" gets a whole lot more traction. Well said, David. Or here is another way to point out the same thing. W3C at this point has not accepted the EME spec. It is a draft specification of a Working Group, that has not yet received Director approval. W3C has said that the requirement is in-scope for the Working Group. We have regularly (on this list) invited folks to propose better solutions to the Working Group. > > David Singer > Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc. > >
Received on Monday, 8 July 2013 16:17:26 UTC