Forms as used case; protection issues

[iherman]

(Comment from Thierry Michel, reproduced with his permission)

Ivan,

An interesting use case are documents including forms, that one may want to download from the web and fill in locally and off line, and resend the filled form as a package. This could probably be achived with EPUB-WEB as with all OWP technologies.

So maybe adding a few words about forms could be of interest.

Another use case are documents for which the editor wants to add protection (with a password or not allowing copy& paste, etc). These are available in PDF and would also be of great interest.

but maybe that is included in the following statement of section 3.6 "EPUB-WEB must incorporate a state agnostic security and privacy model that defines rules for both the online and portable states."

Last is downloading of a subset of pages of a book in an EPUB package. But maybe this is part of section "3.3 Document and fragment identification"

Thierry

[iherman]

Ivan,

An interesting use case are documents including forms, that one may want to > download from the web and fill in locally and off line, and resend the filled form as a package. This could probably be achived with EPUB-WEB as with > all OWP technologies.

So maybe adding a few words about forms could be of interest.

+1. We should add a mention to this.

Another use case are documents for which the editor wants to add protection (with a password or not allowing copy& paste, etc). These are available in PDF and would also be of great interest.

but maybe that is included in the following statement of section 3.6 "EPUB-WEB must incorporate a state agnostic security and privacy model that defines rules for both the online and portable states."

I think it is, we just did not call out. The Readium LCP[1] will include these features and that is what we had in mind. Maybe calling it out directly as a good example of where things may go is indeed a good idea.

[1] http://readium.org/projects/readium-lcp

Last is downloading of a subset of pages of a book in an EPUB package. But > maybe this is part of section "3.3 Document and fragment identification"

Hm. This is an interesting feature that I did not think about yet. The identification is clearly part of this, but it does not give the whole solution.

Not clear to me whether this is a user interface feature that a browser should implement (and may not require standardization) or whether we need an explicit, general technology

Ivan

[iherman]

(Comment from Thierry Michel, reproduced with his permission)

Ivan,

An interesting use case are documents including forms, that one may want to > download from the web and fill in locally and off line, and resend the filled form as a package. This could probably be achieved with EPUB-WEB as with all OWP technologies.

So maybe adding a few words about forms could be of interest.

Added a few words in the section on “Users”.

Another use case are documents for which the editor wants to add protection (with a password or not allowing copy& paste, etc). These are available in PDF and would also be of great interest.

but maybe that is included in the following statement of section 3.6 "EPUB-WEB must incorporate a state agnostic security and privacy model that defines rules for both the online and portable states."

Indeed, and that is the Readium model under development. But this is very close to DRM issues, and we decided to keep away from that topic for now.

Last is downloading of a subset of pages of a book in an EPUB package. But maybe this is part of section "3.3 Document and fragment identification"

I am not sure where to put this feature. It may obviously be important, but does not seem to be an EPUB-WEB issue per se. (The current IDPF work on “Distributable Objects” may also be used for that purpose but that work seems to be a bit orthogonal to the main topic of this paper.)