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Minutes from the Introduction

Daniel J. Weitzner, Technology and Society Domain Leader, W3C

Danny Weitzner thanked the program committee for their work¹. The challenges we face include social and legal issues, not just technology. We have to make sure the solutions we propose will work in the social and legal environments we currently depend on. We want the "universal information space" that is the web to work in a social and legal environment. We want to meet the need to have the WWW address copyright and ownership. This discussion should help us understand and help W3C members, to find the places we can be effective, to add to the work being done elsewhere.

Rigo Wenning, Workshop Co-Chair, W3C

Focused on logistics, but gave brief remarks on DRM. The major difference, is that this workshop tries to find a balanced approach to the conflict of rightsholders and authors on the one hand and users and Libraries on the other hand. Libraries today store the knowledge of the world. Will they still be able to do this, if we have efficient DRM? Will they be able to do their job, loaning works from their stocks? Another issue is the anonymity of access to protected works. Monitoring of digital objects may raise concerns about privacy.

Renato Iannella, Workshop Co-Chair, IPR Systems

Renato Iannella outlined the program of the next two days and explained the grouping of the different presentation. He also explained the rationale of the program committee, why they choosed the particular approach:

• A first session on the overall social framework, in which we want to accomplish things
• Publishers are expected to be heavy users of DRM. That's why the program committee established a second session to further refine the framework already given by the presentations in the first session
• Those sessions are followed by two sessions -the whole afternoon of the first day-, where we wanted to present and discuss the actually proposed solutions and the overall framework and architecture of DRM
• The next day starts with critics, that have to have a voice in such a controversial area.
• After having heard and discussed the critics, the program committee wanted to hear about concrete solutions in the area of security, trust and cryptography
• The session on Multimedia and Mobile was dedicated first to the strong dependency and relationsship to MPEG. This could be grouped together with Mobile, that also brings new challenges to the web
• The workshop will be closed by large space for discussion. The discussion should focus on the question "What shall we do next with this group?"

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Footnotes

back Members of program committee were:

• John Erickson (Hewlett-Packard)
• Maximilian Herberger (University of Saarland)
• Renato Iannella (IPR Systems)
• Chuck Myers (Adobe)
• Norman Paskin (DOI Foundation)
• Daniel Weitzner (W3C)
• Rigo Wenning (W3C)