Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1

On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Nikos Roussos <
comzeradd@mozilla-community.org> wrote:

>
> The debate here is not about DRM being bad or good. The debate is
> whether this should be a W3C standard or not.
>
>
Well, I have been trying to make this same point repeatedly (some might say
ad nauseum), so I am glad we finally agree.

We would probably all agree on the various bad or good properties of DRM
itself, though we may disagree about their severity, but these points are
irrelevant to the question of whether W3C should work in this area. That
question hinges on whether W3C can actually do something useful, towards
its broader goals.

EME specifically is mainly about *constraining* the CDMs:
- to a common interaction/message model and to common encryption (this
improves interoperability between services and different CDMs)
- to working without side channel network access for license exchanges
(this improves security)
- to direct browser integration, rather than an arbitrary plugin API (this
improves security as well)
- to audio/video media specifically and to a model of a/v service defined
by the HTMLMediaElement
- to a common set of security and privacy considerations (which may improve
user security and privacy, depending on what's in those considerations)

And there might be other constraints which come out of the W3C process.

I'd be interested to know why people think these constraints are not useful
or do not contribute - as far as they go - towards the W3C's goals ? Is it
just that they are insufficient ? How would stopping work improve that ? Or
is it just the optics of the implied political endorsement of DRM that
supposedly comes with even working on this ? For my part I am interested in
practical progress on the constraints above, not the politics.

...Mark