The Digital Media Project at http://manifesto.chiariglione.org/ proposes an organisation for the DMP. The specific link is at http://www.chiariglione.org/project/dmp.htm#organisation. Purpose of this document is to present the rationale behind the proposal.

Text in italic represents text drawn from http://www.chiariglione.org/project/dmp.htm

DMP has the following organisational structure

• General Assembly (GA) is the supreme body of DMP, chaired by the President, where all members are represented

This means that the GA is the sole decision making body in the DMP, all other organisations are subordinate to it and produce resolutions that are ratified by it to become executive. As an example, a specification is produced and approved by a Development Committee, but becomes a DMP specification only when it is approved by the GA.

The GA operates on the basis of votes. Members in good standing have the right to vote, other members may attend the GA without the right to vote.

The GA is chaired by the DMP President who is elected by the GA.

More about the GA can be found at http://www.chiariglione.org/project/statutes.htm#E9E8.

• Board of Directors (BoD) is the body, whose members are elected by GA and chaired by the President, managing the day-to-day business of DMP

The BoD is the body with the power to conduct business as specified by http://www.chiariglione.org/project/statutes.htm#E9E9. It can also operate outside of the normal GA meetings to cope with issues that do not require calling a GA.

• Advisory Committees (Finance and Audit, Membership and Nomination, etc.) are standing groups performing special organisational tasks for DMP

The statutes mentions explicitly two

1. Finance and Audit. This is a group whose members are elected by the GA to audit the use of DMP's finances and related matters. For more details see http://www.chiariglione.org/project/statutes.htm#E10E35
2. Membership and Nomination, This is a group whose members are elected by the GA to review applications for membership and to recommend officers for various positions in the DMP. For more details see http://www.chiariglione.org/project/statutes.htm#E10E34

• Development Committees (DCs) are groups proposed by BoD and established by GA to achieve specific tasks related to the mission of DMP

DCs are groups carrying out the work leading to specifications and recommendations. Their number and mandate depend on the specific goals DMP will give to itself from time to time to achieve its mission.

These are the groups in chatge of developing technical specifications, recommended practices and recommended actions.

In the DMP initial phase the following four areas of work, assigned to 4 DCs, are identified:

In response to the needs identified by the DMM, 4 DCs are proposed.

In the proposed structure DC1 is in charge of developing requirements for the interoperable DRM platform and the interoperable end-user devices.It will do that while addressing the first major action (policy) - Mapping of rights and usages traditionally enjoyed by users to the Digital Media space.

Requirements will be fed to DC2. This will be the technical group developing the interoperable DRM platform and the interoperable end-user device specifications. Because the area of work is quite broad, DC2 may have to be split. However, it is important that, at least in the early phases, there be a unitarian approach to technical specifications encompassing the entire value chain.

As this technical work will progress, DC1 will start working on the 7th major action (technical) - End-to-end conformance assessment and eventually prodice recommended practices..

As human-machine interfaces have been identified as a critical success factor for the DMP, DC2 will also develop the corresponding recommended practices.

DC3 will work on the two general policy issues enabling the success of Digital Media: Phasing out analogue legacies applied to Digital Media (P2) and Deployment of broadband access (P3) and produce recommended actions.

Lastly DC4 will produce recommended actions on improvement of workflow of standards development and utilisation (licensing) of standards.