> >OK, pardon the cheap shot, but I don¹t think SDOs that have some sort of >stewardship relationship to the Internet should ever play any part >whatsoever in the facilitation of DRM. So it's ok to define protocols that manage access to services (e.g., TLS, GSS, SASL, etc), but not to the content that might be delivered by those same services? Barring the technicalities around around how authorisation is enforced, I don't see a distinction. Josh. Janet(UK) is a trading name of Jisc Collections and Janet Limited, a not-for-profit company which is registered in England under No. 2881024 and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG. VAT No. 614944238