RE: [rights] TIME OUT, PLEASE

["Gandee, Brad" <Brad.Gandee@CONTENTGUARD.COM>]

Title: RE: [rights] TIME OUT, PLEASE

Karl, All,

With all due respect to Anne, this is a specious argument.  The coordination that we have been pursuing between this TC and MPEG, as well as other standards, has been on the table from the very beginning.  It was described in the Call for Participation as well as in the original Charter.  It was a large portion of the presentation that was given by me at the very first meeting of the TC.  It also has been discussed repeatedly since.  Anne and others have repeatedly claimed that while it would be nice if this work finished in time to coordinate with MPEG it was not necessary.

Now she says:

"But XrML (or "output from the Rights Language TC") is being
specified as a key part of MPEG work, and is being profiled in
other OASIS work, eg WSSTC. This means that the output from the
Rights Language TC must meet the requirements of the broad
community of users and organizations that will be using these
architectures."

With this statement she would have us believe that linking these efforts is the reason we need to slow down and get it right. 

As has been explained more than once, if we spend more months delaying progress to collect yet again another set of requirements before we produce an "output from the Rights Language TC" we in fact will MISS the opportunity to link our specification with MPEG and WSSTC, the organizations with which she is concerned.

I guess I don't know how Anne and others could use the need for linkage with other standards (e.g. MPEG and WSSTC), which btw are going full steam ahead, as justification for slowing the process.   We have discussed a number of times the fact that fixing an initial set of requirements does not preclude us from continuing to collect requirements solutions for which would be incorporated in future versions/revs of the spec.

Frankly by slowing the process OASIS is MISSING a great opportunity.  At this rate it is much more likely that the MPEG REL, which is based on XrML, will be the worldwide standard that will be used to create extensions for other domains that see the need for a rights language.

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Anderson
To: Karl F. Best
Cc: rights@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: 9/24/2002 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [rights] TIME OUT, PLEASE

Karl,

If the Rights Language TC were developing an isolated standard,
then the idea of proceeding with the set of requirements from the
organizations that proposed the TC might be acceptable.

But XrML (or "output from the Rights Language TC") is being
specified as a key part of MPEG work, and is being profiled in
other OASIS work, eg WSSTC. This means that the output from the
Rights Language TC must meet the requirements of the broad
community of users and organizations that will be using these
architectures.

The initial requirements for the RLTC truly represent only a few
members of OASIS.  The additional requirements being proposed by
various members of the TC, including RF implementation licenses
and Fair Use provisions, are important to a broad segment of the
potential users of the RLTC output, and must be satisfied in the
first version.  The Fair Use provisions, in particular, are
pertinent to even a narrow reading of the RLTC charter.  Any
other approach means that the output of the RLTC will be a
rubberstamp of a proprietary protocol for the benefit of a few
companies.

Anne Anderson
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Anne H. Anderson             Email: Anne.Anderson@Sun.COM
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
1 Network Drive,UBUR02-311     Tel: 781/442-0928
Burlington, MA 01803-0902 USA  Fax: 781/442-1692

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