IEEE-LTSC MPEG Overview

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IEEE-LTSC MPEG Overview

• Martha Nalebuff
• Director of Policy Strategy
• Content Security Business Unit

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XrML at MPEG

• MPEG-21 call for REL RDD proposals last July
• 12 companies expressed interest in responding
• 9 made submissions by the Nov. deadline
• Real decided not to offer XMCL joined the ODRL
  submission
• Only two viable REL candidates
• XrML ContentGuard
• ODRL IPR Systems, Nokia, Real

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XrML 2 Basis for MPEG 21 REL

• Key Decision Factors
• Semantically Precision no ambiguity
• Expressiveness
• advanced business models, life-cycle management,
  usage state tracking, pattern matching
• Well defined core and extensions architecture
• Compact Use of only those terms needed
• With ability to use extensions
• Comprehensive Security
• Integrity and confidentiality of rights
  expressions
• Uses up-to-date Standards and Technologies

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Microsofts role at MPEG

• CG received input from MSs regarding our
  requirements of an REL
• MS made a related submission regarding evaluation
  of RELs
• MS also made a submission expanding the scope of
  a REL beyond Digital Works
• MS withheld support of a REL until we evaluated
  MPEG submissions
• Then MS was instrumental in getting the best
  language adopted

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MPEG REL/RDD Status

• Current Status
• Both REL and RDD
• Working Draft 3.X
• Working Draft 4.0 due July MPEG meeting
• Main body of std to be complete including
• RDD Draft of normative REL terms
• Committee Draft due October MPEG meeting
• Study CD Dec 02
• 3 month ballot complete by Jan 03
• FCD ballot - March 03
• 4 month ballot period
• Issue FDIS July 03
• 2 month ballot complete Sept 03

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MPEG-REL Extensibility Architecture
MPEG21-REL Extension
XrML Standard Extension
Core
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XrML - Summary

• Emerging open standard
• IP (or content) owners set policy
• Publishers can express rights independent of
  specific DRM implementations
• Flexible, non-proprietary way to express rights
• Enables interoperability across various system
  and DRM technologies
• Lowers cost for content/IP owners
• Enables stakeholders to set rights policy

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XrML Summary (cont.)

• Modular enables extensions w/o impacting
  existing users
• Persistent description of rules
• Content agnostic
• May include other types of licenses
• Spec and related info
• www.xrml.org and www.ContentGuard.com