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Well given that recent discussion with a few people and finding out the EFF may be coming to their senses about the silliness of their position. Where as during the Austin T13 February 2001 meeting, where my memember ship was invalided for just cause, I had planned to make a friendly ammendment to reach the middle ground. Given the lightening bolts associated w/ the topic, only a civil compromise to require a selectable feature set with lockable modes, could make everyone happy. I would need to exclude the extremes of the world. For the record, I was working to encourage the 4C folks to adopt a position acceptable to the majority, including nyself. This would have permitted the inclusion of CPRM (optional op codes) with a "manditory" locking set for the enduser to control. Understanding the customer for the various drive companies are the big box-builders (Compaq, Dell, Gateway, HP, et al.) and the growing embedded market place for Settop and appliance products, the noise the average Joe-SixPack was making just inflamed the issue. Now it appears the OSS folks are adopting HOSTS which are scoped for CPRM like products and dual design modes for non-appliance usage, it just can not be had both ways. Since we have the DMCA/SSSCA about to force us to make this manditory in the worst case (always enabled), we may wish to address it before hand and adopt the desirable enable/disable lockable features. This would allow for the corporate business world to disable in environments which are inappropriate, the average user who does not want the feature, and the hollywood types that want to dictate the meaning of "fair usage". Given all OSes are going to be forced to support tainted hardware, this T committee could walk the line and produce a document to prevent all sides from attacking the technical aspect of the topic. So I would be willing to take point and lead a proposal, provided a few things were address, and tomorrow is another day. Regards, Andre Hedrick CEO/President, LAD Storage Consulting Group Linux ATA Development Linux Disk Certification Project On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Larry Barras wrote: > This message is from the T13 list server. > > > Slow newsday. I guess they needed the hits. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/23516.html > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions can be found at www.t13.org. > Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions can be found at www.t13.org.
