Digital Rights Management (DRM) Working Group

The goal of the Digital Rights Management (DRM) Working Group is to specify application level protocols and behaviors that provide transactional and life cycle management of content and applications on mobile devices.

Examples include:

• Confirmed content delivery
• Support charging for content delivery and use
• Protection of personal and commercial content
• Constraining content usage based on associated permissions
• Content distribution (including super-distribution)
• Support for storing and sharing content and applications

DRM uses or creates the following technologies to achieve the aforementioned goals:

• Application level protocols for client/server and peer-to-peer communication and file transfer.
• User agents responsible for enforcing behaviors on mobile devices.
• Packaging formats and media types
• Rights Expression Language to express permissions and constraints

The scope of DRM includes a variety of activities, including:

• Collection and refinement of requirements and uses cases for new work items. This includes initiating liaison statements to various external entities to elicit input.
• Selection of security protocols and frameworks.
• Development of technical specifications, including maintenance of existing specifications.
• Review and approval of interoperability test plans and procedures.

View the complete DRM WG Charter