erland wrote: > So since online streaming services is the future, it feels like UPnP has > to have support for things like this if it want to be the future > solution for music streaming. Else it will only be the future for > locally stored music and that's something that's likely going to be less > and less common, especially among the masses.
Indeed. A very precise observation. Principally the UPnP Digital Media Standard allows extensions beyond the currently supported http:// and rtsp:// url schemes. In technical terms, an extension is trivial to implement. The real difficulty would be in getting device manufacturers and service providers around a table to define and agree on the respective scheme. So it is probably more of a corporate political challenge than a technical one. Nevertheless, the UPnP Digital Media Standard does miss an explicit mechanism for securely passing Digital Media encryption keys and authentication tokens between devices and servers. The base standard does have a Device Security service that would provide the underlying encrypted comms infrastucture (think of UPnP DevSec as something like the http*s*:// transport). But the Digital Media people would need agree on their industry specific security objects (digital rights certificates, tokens, keys) that would be conveyed over the DevSec service. This is more complex, since it would involve a lot of crypto guys and lawyers as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrewFG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95603 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
