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IETF on DRM, Internet Faxing

Posted by michael on from the building-it-into-the-infrastructure dept.

Rich Salz writes: "The Internet Research Task Force, a sister of the IETF, has a research group on Internet digital rights management. Ebooks, secure content, no-fair-use (sic), etc. According to a presentation at the last IETF, one of the group's work items is to influence other IETF activities to support/architect DRM. IDRM membership is open to anyone, presumably including nay-sayers." Meanwhile, the IETF has put on hold its work toward an internet fax standard, as Adobe and Xerox squabble over a file format.

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  1. DON'T STARTLE ME LIKE THAT!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    That title is dangerous. It looks like the IETF is addressing the question of putting DRM in internet faxing.

    Upon reading the article it is clear that the post is about the two seperate issues of [the IETF and DRM] and [the IETF and faxing], but the four seconds of shocked, frozen horror upon reading that headline were still pretty bad.

    Gods.. DRM built into your fax/print standard. that would be terrifying, a fax/print system with an inherent bias against flexibility at the standard level. What an ugly, ugly thought. Be more careful next time.. you might give some old, feeble-hearted UNIX/COBOL engineer a heart attack before they get a chance to read the article blurb and realise they misinterpreted the headline.

    Jeez.. you might as well accidentally post a link on a for-children-only website to whitehouse.com, or something.

  2. Re:meetings? by bstrahm · · Score: 2, Informative
    The next meeting of the IETF is in Salt Lake City Dec 9-14. A list of future planned meetings can be found here

    IETF Meetings

    The process is simple, pay the fee, read the documents, show up prepared to make comments. The IETF works both online through their mailing lists and Face - Face with their meetings held 3 times a year.