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Subject: Parallel Effort?
Greetings! Thought everyone would be interested to learn of yet another digital rights standards effort! This one from the IEEE. Looks to me like we need some serious dicussion of coordination if not combination into a single forum simply to avoid duplication of effort. No reason for multiple, possibly inconsistent terminologies, ontologies (although I usually resist the common abuse of that word by the CS folks), and strategies for digital rights management. I am sure some members of the Rights TC are old enough to remember the horrors of multiple versions of DOS and I am not looking forward to repeating that experience with digital rights. A common forum, however the technology shakes out, would seem to be a first step in that direction. (Yes, for anyone looking for a fight, I don't think there is a single answer, patent or technology that encompasses all of the digital rights area. But we don't have to settle that question before agreeing that it is pointless to have that fight in every country, in every standards or related body, until the next wave of technology makes that dispute irrelevant. Not that being irrelevant would stop the argument, it would just mean fewer and fewer people would be interested. The winner in that case being the last person to discover that no one else was interested. Called wining by default. Market share = 1 unit.) Hope everyone is having a great day! Patrick ***********IEEE effort on digital rights********************* Context (Extract from the Project Definition Report) In the context of the IEEE-LTSC, an additional workgroup has been created to define a DREL standard. The purpose of project that this workgroup will undertake is to facilitate the creation, management and delivery of learning objects by technology that implements digital rights expression languages. This project will produce a recommended practice or guide identifying digital rights requirements for learning technologies. These requirements will be aligned with the most widely known standards-based specifications for digital rights expression languages that are being adopted or developed by international, regional, national and private organizations and consortia. The recommended practice or guide will determine what, if any, extensions are needed so that these digital rights expression languages can meet the identified requirements. The working group intends to submit a recommended practice or guide for balloting within one year. (More at http://ltsc.ieee.org/sg1/ieee_drel_pdr_030404.pdf) -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu Co-Editor, ISO Reference Model for Topic Maps
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