[Asis-standards] vote on Systematic Review ISO/TR 21449:2004, Content Delivery and Rights Management — Functional requirements for identifiers and descriptors for use in the music, film, video, sound recording and publishing industries

[Mark Needleman]

Folks

i just submitted a vote of REVISE on

  Systematic Review ISO/TR 21449:2004, Content Delivery and Rights 
Management — Functional requirements for identifiers and descriptors for 
use in the music, film, video, sound recording and publishing industries

with the following comments (provided by Timothy Dickey with some minor 
editing by me):

We believe this is an important document and should not be withdrawn 
under any circumstances. Our inclination is that the standard needs to 
be revised. Our major concerns
have to do with 2 of the initial justifications for the justifications 
for the standard: assisting in the tracking of intellectual property, 
and in dealing with "multiple levels of aggregation and decomposition". 
Since 2004, both of these issues have become more complex at a 
staggering rate.

We understand that the standard has to cover the general scope of 4 
international treaties as its basis rather than any individual 
legislation in any country or territory. However, the tracking of 
digital versions of intellectual content may not be as well served as 
the current set of attributes defined under, for instance, "product", 
"release, "right", "tracking", and "use"; the current attributes seem 
relatively print-based in conception.

Also, we fear that the attributes defined under "content" and "product" 
may soon (or already) be inadequate to deal with the continual 
segmentation of this kind of digital content in the current marketplace.

Finally, although the largest need for the standard are on the 
commercial side, we believe that the library and museum community which 
is deliberately left out of consideration may deserve further 
consideration in a revision of this standard.

mark