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Minutes, September 7th, 2021

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During its early meetings, the group worked on what TDM means in practice, the vocabulary to be used during the project, the goals and requirements for a technical solution, created several use cases and compiled a set of past and existing initiatives with a similar scope. The group then agreed on three alternative technical solutions for expressing the reservation of TDM rights: one based on http headers, another based on a file hosted on the origin server, and a third based on html meta tags. These three solutions correspond to different situations and technical skills. 

In May, the group defined a machine readable TDM policy which details how a rightsholder can be contacted and conditions in which a TDM license can be acquired. It was agreed that TDM Policies would be defined as a profile of ODRL 2. In June, a complete draft of specification (https://w3c.github.io/tdm-reservation-protocol/spec/) was written, which includes details like the priority by which the 3 techniques must be processed by TDM Agents and how TDM Agents should react to protocol errors.

From July to August, details of the specification were discussed and the group requested advice and prototyping from content providers and TDM Actors.

Participants: Giulia, Robin, Claudio, Fred, Laurent

#issue 23 and #20: these issues are strongly related to possible protocol errors and how TDM Agents should react to such errors (made by content providers). As a general mechanism, in case protocol errors are detected by TDM Agents, the fallback is to consider that tdm-reservation is unset. tdm-reservation=2 with no tdm-policy property is a kind of protocol error, but applying the general rule in this case was controversial.

The decision of the group is to suppress this value 2, which suppresses the controverse and simplifies the spec at the same time.

  • a TDM Agent which sees tdm-reservation = 1 and NO tdm-policy property will assume that there is NO way to get rights to use the content
  • a TDM Agent which sees tdm-reservation = 1 and a tdm-policy property set will assume that there is a way to get rights to use the content and will decide if it tries to get more information or stop there.

The issues will be closed as soon as the modification of the specification is approved.

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