Happy New Year everyone!

FYI.....

CEN/ISSS are holding an open meeting on Digital Rights Management in
Brussels on the 7th of February. And for those that are interested IEEE
are also currently active in the field of DRM, see Magda Mourad's mail
below for further information.

Best Wishes
Lorna

    -----Original Message-----
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    Sent: vrijdag 3 januari 2003 17:16
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    Subject: Invitation to the CEN/ISSS Open Meeting: "Digital Rights
    Management, CEN/ISSS Report"
    Importance: High

    Dear All,

    I am pleased to circulate the programme of the CEN/ISSS Open Meeting
    on "Digital Rights Management, CEN/ISSS Report , to be held on the
    7th February 2003 at the Diamant Business and Conference Centre,
    Bld. Auguste Reyers 80.B   1030 Brussels.

    Digital Rights Management is a complex area from a technology point
    of view, and recent or current standardization activities have
    involved many major sectors, including content providers
    (publishers, broadcasters, film, etc.) hardware and software
    providers, etc., in many different standards groups, including both
    formal standards bodies and business consortia. CEN/ISSS formed an
    open Focus Group, with the objective to prepare a report on the
    state of the art in standardization of digital rights from different
    perspectives, and this Group, which has over 100 companies and
    organizations represented, is now finalizing the first draft of its
    report.

    The draft report will be made available around the end of January
    and placed on the web for public comment. It will be presented to
    the Open Meeting, whose main objective is to consider the draft and
    identify further issues. Following the Open Meeting and public
    comments, the CEN/ISSS DRM Group will finalise the report and
    publish it, also submitting it to the European Commission, whose
    request prompted the creation of this activity.

    The meeting will therefore interest a wide range of participants,
    and early registration is recommended. If you would like to
    register, please send the attached registration form to Ariana
    Zeuuw-Mina ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
    by 3 February 2003 at the very latest.

    A copy of the programme is also published on CEN web-site at:
    http://www.cenorm.be/isss/DRM/Invitation.htm

    Best regards,

    ==============================================
    Giulia Cipressi - Workshop Manager

    CEN - European Committee for Standardization
    Rue de Stassart 36, B-1050 Brussels

    Tel :+ 32 2 550 0987
    Fax : + 32 2 550 0966
    Secretariat Tel: + 32 2 550 0989
    E-mail : [log in to unmask]
    ==============================================

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>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Soliciting committee members: PAR for DREL WG
> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 03:34:15 -0500
> From: Magda Mourad <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
> CC: "Robby Robson" <[log in to unmask]>, "Norm Friesen"
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
>To all interested members of IEEE LTSC and CEN/ISSS WS-LT; Invitation to
>join PAR Drafting Group:
>
>This is a call for volunteers who would be interested in drafting a PAR
>(Project Authorization Request) to create a new Working Group (WG) in the
>IEEE LTSC focusing on Digital Rights Management Expression Languages
>(DRELs).  Per the motion that was passed during the IEEE LTSC meeting in
>Copenhagen on Dec 11, 2002, the goal of the proposed WG would be to issue
>an IEEE LTSC DREL technical report "consistent with the discussion" held
>during that meeting. The said discussion resulted in an agreement to set up
>a WG to consider the current and emerging DREL "standards" and to identify
>the additional DREL requirements needed for education and training. These
>requirements will be outlined in a technical report that the proposed WG
>will develop. Please find attached copy of the IEEE LTSC DREL SG's Motions
>and Minutes:
>(See attached file: 021211 IEEE LTSC DREL notes.doc)
>
>The motion asked for the completion of the PAR by January 2003. So please
>let me know by Monday January 6th, 2003 if you are interested in joining
>the PAR drafting group (not the WG itself). Interested members should be
>able to work extensively with the team (via email and possibly a conference
>call) during the period from January 7th, 2003 to January 24th, 2003
>(approximately).
>
>Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
>Regards,
>Magda
>
>Magda M. Mourad, PhD
>IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
>
>

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Lorna M. Campbell
Assistant Director
Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS)
Centre for Academic Practice, University of Strathclyde
+44 (0)141 548 3072
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/