[governance] Re: Draft Statement #DRM HTML5/ was [Should the IGC support Formal Objection by EFF?] #DRM in HTML5

[Aida Noblia]

Dear:

Like most of the reviews seem to agree on the essentials of the draft
letter of Salanieta, except a few paragraphs, I tried to look at the
following what has been raised so far in the list.

Apologize if it is not in line with what I set, only with the spirit of
cooperation.

Downstairs if I add them useful.

Regards
Aida Noblia

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The Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) objects to the inclusion of
digital rights management (DRM) in HTML5.

 We believe that the proposed standard by the W3C is a serious threat to a
free and open Internet.

We endorse and support the formal objection filed by the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF). We understand the impact of the implementation
of the proposed standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C affect
various human rights seriously, slow web innovation and block access to
content for people around the globe.

 Another inherent danger of the proposal is to exclude open source
developers and competition, destroy interoperability and lock in existing
business models.

 We note that most of the developing world is based on open source
developers so that the mechanisms that allow an open environment to share
resources related to agricultural practices, education, health and diverse
content. In regions where access to information is a challenge and serious
resource constraints a free and open internet allows ease of information
exchange that allows communities.

 For these reasons we strongly oppose the inclusion of digital rights
management (DRM) in HTML5 and fully support the arguments raised in the
objection [1] proposed by the EFF.
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2013/6/2 Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>

> I support avri's argument. Openness, vendor neutrality etc rather than
> vague and fuzzy terms
>
> --srs (htc one x)
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> On 2 June 2013 6:20:24 PM Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2 Jun 2013, at 08:34, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
>>
>> > We believe that the inclusion of digital rights management in HTML5
>> will kill innovation and we strongly object to the inclusion of digital
>> rights management (DRM) in HTML5.
>> >
>> Thanks for highlighting this sentence. While I have issues with some of
>> the others that I need to think through, this one stands out as problematic
>> for me.
>>
>> I think that 'innovation' is one of those unidentifiables that everyone
>> invokes in their statements no matter what position they are taking.
>>
>> - those advocating DRM say that without the money that DRM enables no one
>> would innovate at all (i disagree btw)
>>
>> - those opposing DRM say that without the work of others to learn from
>> and build upon we would kill innovation.  I  disagree, sure it makes
>> innovation more challenging and is the wrong thing to do, but kill it?  I
>> don't think so.
>> People will innovate because they are innovators, so we can facilitate or
>> hinder it, but neither side can kill it.
>>
>> I think if we going to include a reason, something I am not sure we
>> should do, I think it has to rest of arguments related to Access to
>> Knowledge.
>>
>> avri
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