scope:

This part of ISO/IEC 23006 specifies a set of protocols enabling distributed applications to exchange information related to content items and parts thereof, including rights and protection information.

This part of ISO/IEC 23006 specifies five categories of protocols: the content protocols, the license protocols, the IPMP tool protocols, the domain protocols and the event report protocols. The first category includes protocols to access, authenticate, identify and store a content item or parts thereof. The second includes protocols to access and store a license from/to a remote service. The third category includes protocols to access an IPMP tool (a module performing protection operations such as decryption, watermarking, key management, etc.) from a remote service while a fourth category includes the protocols allowing a number of devices to create, join, administer, etc. a group of users and devices where the participants share common properties. The fifth category, event report, comprises the protocol to store an event report and the protocol to register an event report request.

In security-aware environments, the security at the communication level is assumed to be handled by traditional underlying security protocols, e.g. the SSLv3 or TLSv1 protocols. This part of ISO/IEC 23006 does not apply to this level.