On 06/05/2014 09:35, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
Hi all,
On today's "Day against DRM" we sent an open letter to the European Commission https://fsfe.org/activities/drm/open-letter-ec-drm-html.en.html, asking the EC to prevent Digital Restrictions Management technology from being closely integrated with the HTML5 standard.
The PR is available here:
I think that might potentially produce cause for regret.
That is, if this appeal is successful, and the EC 'prevents' (how?) DRM being closely integrated with HTML5, that would set a precedent for EU legislators to interfere in internet standards.
Government (and inter-governmental bodies) are not well-equipped to evaluate technical standards - they rely on advisors (and more to the point, on lobbyists) to interpret them.
Surely the correct target for this letter would have been the WHATWG and the W3C?