Re: Registration of CDMs as a solution proposal (was Re: "Revealed: how Microsoft...")

On Jul 13, 2013, at 1:24 AM, Nikos Roussos
<comzeradd@mozilla-community.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 14:31 -0700, Mark Watson wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb@bollow.ch> wrote:
>>        "piranna@gmail.com" <piranna@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Robert O'Callaghan of Mozilla proposed that all CDMs be
>>        registered
>>>> and that a condition of registration be publication of the
>>        source
>>>> code
>>>
>>> Interesting solution... Independently of the fact I'm
>>        against EME,
>>> since this would mean a reduced and clearly common set of
>>        CDMs, I
>>> agree with that solution.
>>
>>        +1
>>
>>        since it would also greatly increase the likelihood of being
>>        able to
>>        run the CDMs on Free Software operating system platforms,
>>        therefore
>>        significantly reducing the risk in regard to the continued
>>        viability
>>        of such operating system platforms that I'm so concerned
>>        about.
>>
>>
>> I see, so this is an area where there could be some advantage to
>> working on this in W3C then ?
>
> Just a clarification. You wrote:
> "all CDMs be registered and that a condition of registration be
> publication of the source code"
>
> Robert says on this bug:
> "Documentation must be published describing the complete operation of
> the CDM"
>
> Those are two different things. Am I missing something?

Oh, sorry! That's my mistake. I mis-remembered Robert's proposal. I
guess I have just introduced a new proposal then :-)

Anyway, my point was to illustrate that practical proposals of this
kind are in scope of the working group and this is an area where
discussion in W3C could
potentially value. Those particular proposals might not be agreeable
to today's main DRM vendors, but other ideas might be and there might
be other DRM vendors and some kind of solution is needed to close the
bug.

>
>
> Andreas' suggestion on this same bug is also interesting
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20944#c14
>
>

There is little hope of a user-modifiable DRM that meets today's
content protection requirements.

...Mark

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>

Received on Saturday, 13 July 2013 16:00:55 UTC