Protected Entertainment Rights Management BOF (perm)

Monday, August 2 at 1300-1500
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CHAIRS: Mark Baugher (mbaugher@cisco.com)
        Thomas Hardjono (thardjono@verisign.com) 

AGENDA:

(1) Agenda bashing (5 minutes)
(2) Problem Statement/Scope Overview (30 mins)
(3) Charter discussion (45 mins)
(4) Open discussion (40 mins)


DESCRIPTION:

The primary purpose of this proposed working group is to develop the PERM
protocol.  The PERM protocol provides secure management of usage rights for
digital entertainment content. PERM is not intended to replace existing
television conditional access systems or device content protection
mechanisms. Rather, it is intended to complement such systems by providing
authenticated signaling of usage-rights for content works that have usage
rights associated with them.  PERM signaling operates across heterogeneous
data networks, particularly home networks, and uses Internet standards
where appropriate.

The PERM Working Group will identify existing Internet standards-track
documents suitable for supporting PERM signaling and security needs.  This
investigation will be documented in a "PERM Framework" Informational-track
document.  Following the framework document, one or more PERM
specifications will be published as standards-track documents.  It is
entirely possible that the current PERM specification will be edited by the
working group and published with modest changes.  It is the task of the
PERM working group, however, to ensure that the PERM protocol is
integrity-protected, optionally private, and safe to use on both unicast
and multicast networks.  The PERM working group will ensure PERM
compatibility with the authorization, credential, and public-key standards
published by the IETF.

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