AndrewFG wrote: > 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. > Thanks for the information, it's good to know that the UPnP standard is prepared for it. Now I'm just getting a bit worried the music industry will ensure we will end up with something like HDCP that causes even more struggling and incompatibilities for end consumers.
Do you know if the music industry is working on agreeing regarding this and apply it to their UPnP solutions ? Do you know if streaming providers such as Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody and similar are involved ? This got to be a problem also for video, we are getting more and more commercial online streaming services for video which also currently seems to be mostly built on proprietary solutions instead of using UPnP. I'm thinking of Netflix, Hulu, Voddler and similar services, they currently don't use UPnP, do they ? >From my perspective this incompatibility with online streaming services is a lot bigger issue for UPnP than gap less playback and synchronized playback between different rooms which is often brought up as the main arguments against UPnP. Gap less playback and synchronized playback between different rooms might be nice, but I'm pretty sure they are not critical features for 80% of the users, support for online streaming services on the other hand is or is going to be very critical functionality for most of the users. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95603 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
