What is a Coral Ecosystem?
To a consumer, an ecosystem denotes a collection of devices, a set of services and a body of content that can all interoperate.

In terms of Coral's work, it's a business arrangement and a set of usage policies that employ the 'Coral Core Architecture Specification and Domain Architecture Specification'. Together, these define a consistent user experience for content released into the ecosystem.

An Ecosystem defines a set of policies and functionality that supports transparent and intuitive content use across the set of a consumer's (or a family's) devices. These policies ensure that when consumers encounter an ecosystem brand on content or devices, they will understand how that content can be used on those devices.

A Coral Ecosystem will typically be formed by one company or a group of companies seeking to deploy a specific content distribution model that takes advantage of a set of DRMs. This company or group of companies is called the "Ecosystem Founders".

Coral will license its specifications to the Ecosystem Founder under a Coral Ecosystem Agreement. The Ecosystem Founder will then create its own adopter agreements and compliance rules and then license its ecosystem specification and sublicense the Coral specifications to their adopters.

A whitepaper on Ecosystem Formation can be found at http://www.coral-interop.org.

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