Last call for review comments for audio/sp-midi
Please, review http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kosonen-sp-midi-mediatype-02.t xt. It is the third version of the draft. This is the final call. Please provide any review comments for the internet draft above at the latest by the 16th of January 2007. The differences between draft-kosonen-sp-midi-mediatype-01.txt and draft-kosonen-sp-midi-mediatype-02.txt are: -Dates have been updated. -Normative references and Informative references became sections instead of subsections. -Copyright notice was updated. Best Regards, Timo Kosonen
On Tuesday, January 2, 2007, 8:19:25 AM, timo wrote: tknc> Please, review tknc> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kosonen-sp-midi-mediatype-02.t tknc> xt. It is the third version of the draft. This is the final call. Please tknc> provide any review comments for the internet draft above at the latest tknc> by the 16th of January 2007. tknc> The differences between draft-kosonen-sp-midi-mediatype-01.txt and tknc> draft-kosonen-sp-midi-mediatype-02.txt are: tknc> -Dates have been updated. tknc> -Normative references and Informative references became sections instead tknc> of subsections. tknc> -Copyright notice was updated. Could I ask a couple of clarifying questions regarding the defining specification: a) Is it correct that the specification is not available online and is solely contained in one or more printed books, orderable from http://www.midi.org/about-midi/docorder.shtml (if so, not necessarily a problem, just wanted to be sure that was the situation) b) What is the IPR licensing situation regarding the defining specification. May it be freely implemented without roalty? if so, please say so. If not, please give details of where the relevant licenses may be obtained. c) Can you say a little more about Many synthetic audio compositions have associated intellectual property rights. It is conceivable that the rights owners of sp- midi content will want to protect their rights by applying security mechanisms that prohibit the rendering of the content without a legally acquired license to do so. and how that would affect a conformant reader of this media type? -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Interaction Domain Leader Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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a) Is it correct that the specification is not available online and is solely contained in one or more printed books, orderable from http://www.midi.org/about-midi/docorder.shtml (if so, not necessarily a problem, just wanted to be sure that was the situation)
The specification is not available online by downloading but can be ordered online from http://www.midi.org/about-midi/docorder.shtml. The specification itself is in a printed form.
b) What is the IPR licensing situation regarding the defining specification. May it be freely implemented without roalty? if so, please say so. If not, please give details of where the relevant licenses may be obtained.
MMA IP Policy that applies in this case can be found in http://www.midi.org/about-mma/policy.shtml
c) Can you say a little more about
Many synthetic audio compositions have associated intellectual property rights. It is conceivable that the rights owners of sp- midi content will want to protect their rights by applying security mechanisms that prohibit the rendering of the content without a legally acquired license to do so.
and how that would affect a conformant reader of this media type?
The above does not affect an SP-MIDI conformant reader. The next sentence states: "These mechanisms would be applied externally to the Content-Type defined here; sp-midi content itself is not encrypted internally." So if the content owner wants to encrypt SP-MIDI, it must be wrapped inside something else, and then this wrapper is encrypted. In that case, the whole package is not conformant to the sp-midi media type, but only the SP-MIDI part inside. -Timo
On Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 8:53:03 AM, timo wrote:
b) What is the IPR licensing situation regarding the defining specification. May it be freely implemented without roalty? if so, please say so. If not, please give details of where the relevant licenses may be obtained.
tknc> MMA IP Policy that applies in this case can be found in tknc> http://www.midi.org/about-mma/policy.shtml Excellent, please add that link to the registration document.
c) Can you say a little more about
Many synthetic audio compositions have associated intellectual property rights. It is conceivable that the rights owners of sp- midi content will want to protect their rights by applying security mechanisms that prohibit the rendering of the content without a legally acquired license to do so.
and how that would affect a conformant reader of this media type?
tknc> The above does not affect an SP-MIDI conformant reader. The next tknc> sentence states: "These mechanisms would be applied externally to the tknc> Content-Type defined here; sp-midi content itself is not encrypted tknc> internally." So if the content owner wants to encrypt SP-MIDI, it must tknc> be wrapped inside something else, and then this wrapper is encrypted. In tknc> that case, the whole package is not conformant to the sp-midi media tknc> type, but only the SP-MIDI part inside. Thanks for the clarification; makes sense. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Interaction Domain Leader Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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