Bug 27053 - Platform Segmentation

[paulbrucecotton]

Moving from Bugzilla (https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27053):

No existing web API relies upon those using it or implementing it to negotiate business deals. To meet the normal bar for a web platform API:

• Independent content providers should be able to use EME to protect their content just as easily as large media companies.
• New browser vendors should be able to add EME support to their browser based on open standards, without needing to license technology. This should ideally be possible both for new desktop browsers and for new mobile browsers or new devices.
• New key systems should be able to join the EME ecosystem by implementing an open standard.
• Content providers should be able to implement and interface with multiple key systems via the same code, without dealing with inconsistency in feature sets or behaviors.

[paulbrucecotton]

Since this request falls out of the scope the current HTML Media Extensions WG charter, we will mark this issue with Milestone VNext.

/paulc HTML Media Extensions WG Chair

[Orthus]

So EME is not able to be used operationally in a completely FOSS environment? and making it actually interoperable and fully platform agnostic is outside the scope? So when did the W3C be taken over by MAFIAA lackeys?

[tidoust]

@Orthus The discussion in the original issue tracker provides some rationale. Ensuring that the API itself is interoperable is certainly in scope of the Media Working Group. Specifying an API at the CDM level remains out of scope for the time being.

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