Tuesday, February 14, 2012

XrML and Standards

In March 2002, Hari Reddy of ContentGuard became armchair of a new OASIS abstruse board on rights languages. In a affair on May 21, ContentGuard appears to accept presented a new adaptation of XrML, 2.1, as the starting point for the committee's work. The accumulation disbanded after in that year, clumsy to accede on a administration for the work. ContentGuard was aswell alive with the Electronic Book Exchange (EBX) in 2000, and after the Open eBook Forum (OeBF), on the development of standards for agenda rights administration for eBooks. In 2003, the OeBF "Rights and Rules" alive accumulation developed a abstract accepted rights announcement accent based on XrML 2.0, about this standards accomplishment apoplectic and has not been active at this writing.

At this aforementioned time, ContentGuard was accommodating in the MPEG-21 standards committee, area XrML was proposed as the base for Part 5 of the MPEG-21 accepted (ISO/IEC 21000), the Rights Announcement Language. Through a affiliate vote of the All-embracing Organization for Standardization, the MPEG-21 standard, including Part 5, became an official all-embracing standard. ContentGuard accomplished plan on XrML at the point that it became adopted as an official standard; ISO/IEC 21000-5 is its accepted manifestation.

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