DRM, authentification, payments services are required for accessing
proprietary or subscribed content, hence are within the scope of
content brokerage services along with all those resource discovery
pre-requisites (e.g. 'search/expose', 'request/deliver' use cases of
the IMS DRI model).
Boon
On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 11:38 AM, Tore Hoel wrote:
> Quoting "A.J.Brasher" <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Here's my euros worth...
>> To me, the phrase 'content brokerage' implies services like rights
>> management and payment mechanisms.
>
> No, I think you should look at the UNIVERSAL-project or EducaNext
> http://www.
> educanext.org/ as their example of a "brokerage platform" - it about
> sharing
> learning resources in general - not only DRM.
>
> -Tore Hoel
> www.estandard.no
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