Structured Management of Digital Content and Licenses Management: know what it is you are managing – label it Require a unique label for an entity involved in a DRM transaction An identifier string, which can do something Digital Content and Licenses: Enties in transactions: stuff, people, deals (= content, users, licences) –indecs: people make stuff, people do deals about stuff; stuff is used by people Same system for all these entities, using internet standards Structured: Objective: capable of being used in distributed systems someone else can come along at another time/place, and may need to link to another system, etc So must be persistent and interoperable (which means: description)
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