[Ecommerce] ITU's working on DRMs for developing countries, asks MSFT employee to be rapporteur

[Manon Ress]

The ITU's Study Group 6, Working Party 6M has appointed a rapporteur,
Mark Jeffrey (markjeff@microsoft.com), to assemble an overview of DRM
systems that is intended to be used as a roadmap by developing nations
in order that they may choose and use DRM systems. Mark Jeffrey is
accepting input until the end of February.

Some groups have spoken to him about including material on the danger of
DRM systems to developing nations -- a critique grounded in the
Development Agenda and related sensibilities. Mark Jeffrey says he is
willing to take this material in and include it in his report to the
committee, though he cautions that the committee might disregard this.

Feel free to send Mark Jeffrey (cc cory@eff.org and manon.ress@cptech.org)

Manon
PS
Mark Jeffrey works for Microsoft and on digital media in Geneva  (2004
Program manager for European media standards and policy)

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Manon Anne Ress
manon.ress@cptech.org,
www.cptech.org

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