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But any agreed upon public standard should be implementable by any vendor. DRM extensions do not fit this bill.

If only a select few can implement it, then why call it a standard?

Only a select few can implement specific DRM modules, but nobody is talking about standardizing them.

The standard (that is being proposed) in this case is an interface that the actual DRM modules hook into. Anyone can implement the interface.

The "implementation" of an interface is the code that actually does stuff when that interface is called.

In this case, the implementation of the DRM hooks are those proprietary DRM modules.

This "standard" shuts everyone except the select few in the dark. Without have the appropriate plug-in, you cannot access the content.