[IETF-IDRM] Fwd: RE: [IDRM] XrML?

[Thomas Hardjono]

>Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:38:49 -0700
>From: Rob Koenen <rkoenen@intertrust.com>
>Subject: RE: [IDRM] XrML?
>To: "'Mark Baugher'" <mbaugher@cisco.com>, "J. Chong" <cnc99r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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> >     There is no standard rights management language yet.
> > There is only
> > one that I am aware of that is intended to be an
> > "open-standard" language
> > and that is ODRL, Open Digital Rights Language.  Following the W3C
> > meeting at Inria earlier in the year, the Workshop on Digital Rights,
> > I am expecting some initiative to start in the W3C.
>
>Initiative has already started in MPEG, and representatives of both
>ODRL and XrML are participating in a requirements study, along
>with quite a few more people. If there is interest I can send
>the call for Requirements and draft Requirements Document to this
>list.
>MPEG anticipates issuing a Call for Proposals in July.
>MPEG has invited W3C to jointly take on this enormous undertaking.
>
>As there were some remarks about licensing:
>MPEG does not accept conditional submissions, and will seek the best
>standard as a combination from all proposals received.
>
>MPEG technology is not usually license free, but contributors to the
>standard are required to declare that they will license their essential
>patents on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
>I am not a lawyer, and will not try to pass judgement on what
>constitutes "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory".
>
>Rob Koenen
>Chairman MPEG Requirements Group.