Re: Encrypted Media proposal (was RE: ISSUE-179: av_param - Chairs Solicit Alternate Proposals or Counter-Proposals) from Kornel Lesiński on 2012-03-06 (public-html@w3.org from March 2012)

From: Kornel Lesiński <kornel@geekhood.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:39:15 -0000
To: public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <op.waqvvpf8te2ec8@aimac.local>

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:42:25 -0000, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:

>> As argued multiple times, it would be a disservice to the web platform
>> as a whole to bake closed-source royalty-encumbered technology into
>> HTML.
>
> And who is proposing doing this? Nobody. Nobody is proposing requiring a
> specific encumbered CDM just as nobody is proposing a specific encumbered
> A/V codec. Please stop making claims that are patently untrue.

Of course nobody said you're proposing a *single* *specific* encumbered  
CDM.

You're proposing exposing the web platform to *multiple* *unspecified*  
encumbered CDMs.

...plus the ClearKey to distract from that fact.

-- 
regards, Kornel Lesiński

Received on Tuesday, 6 March 2012 10:39:51 UTC