Interoperability/Technology
How does Coral Consortium achieve interoperability?
Does the Coral Consortium interoperability approach support existing DRM solutions? 
Will these solutions be required to change?
Which industries support Coral Consortium?
What industries will implement Coral Consortium's specifications?
How does Coral Consortium achieve interoperability?
Coral Consortium first developed a number of DRM interoperability scenarios that served to drive the requirements for an interoperability framework. Based on these requirements, Coral Consortium then developed a set of specifications. These specs bridge gaps between disparate DRM systems and safeguard against impedance mismatches that are common when communicating between them. Information on the availability of our specifications can be found here: http://www.coral-interop.org/main/specifications/Index_4.0.html.
Does the Coral Consortium interoperability approach support existing DRM solutions? Will these solutions be required to change?
Coral Consortium's major goal is to facilitate Interoperability among existing DRM solutions. Existing content distribution channels based on existing DRM technologies will only be required to undergo minimal change. The DRM technology itself remains largely unaffected. Eventually, we expect that new approaches for DRM will be devised that have interoperability as an underlying design principal.
Which industries support Coral Consortium?
Coral Consortium has active participation from the CE, content, service provider, and IT industries. We welcome participation from all affected parties, including from relevant industries that are not yet represented.
What industries will implement Coral Consortium's specifications?
We expect content distribution services and license services to be among the first products to contain our specifications. Additionally, Home Media Gateways and devices may include some Coral technology. Once the services-based framework is in place, and interoperability between services and devices exists, new services that offer consumers access to their content rights regardless of location or device will emerge. Examples of such services are sophisticated content discovery and so-called "rights lockers" that allow a user to access their content rights from anywhere and make back-ups of those valuable rights.
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