Encrypted Media Extensions a W3C Recommendation
Encrypted Media Extensions a W3C Recommendation
Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) have been under review by the W3C Advisory
Committee since last March. This report
from the committee addresses comments and objections to EME.
"After consideration of the issues, the Director reached a decision
that the EME specification should move to W3C Recommendation. The Encrypted
Media Extensions specification remains a better alternative for users than
other platforms, including for reasons of security, privacy, and
accessibility, by taking advantage of the Web platform. While additional
work in some areas may be beneficial for the future of the Web Platform, it
remains appropriate for the W3C to make the EME specification a W3C
Recommendation. Formal publication of the W3C Recommendation will happen at
a later date. We encourage W3C Members and the community to work in both
technical and policy areas to find better solutions in this space.
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The Free Software Foundation's Defective by Design campaign opposes
EME arguing that it infringes on Web users' control of their own
computers, and weakens their security and privacy. "Opponents' last opportunity to stop EME is an appeal by the Advisory Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the body which Tim Berners-Lee heads. Requiring 5% of the Committee's 475 members (corporate, nonprofit, and educational institutions) to sign on within a two-week period, the appeal would then trigger a vote from the whole Committee to make a final decision to ratify or reject EME.
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