5 Scope

This Work Item will initially focus on the creation of a Technical Report analysing existing data license schemes and how these licenses are being used in existing data management platforms to understand essential functions to utilize data license in a system managing data. Then the TR will retrieve potential requirements and key features through answering the following questions:

  • How to indicate different data license to oneM2M data?
  • How to acknowledge data (typically there should be an acknowledgement if data is used under a license)?
  • How to check the fact that data is properly used under a given license? (for example, checking whether an acknowledgement is properly added to data with license)
  • How to provide a link to the original data source?
  • How to indicate the creator, provider and owner of data
  • Data license provides possible operations to data, for example, copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, and distribute. How to address possible operations if such data is stored in oneM2M?
  • How to support various licenses while being agnostic to the license?
  • How to support and/or interwork with existing digital rights management (DRM) mechanisms?
  • The license needs to be accessible before the data is "visible" to a "user".
  • How to record a user's choice to accept/reject the license?
  • How to indicate more than one license attached?
  • How to revoke a license?
  • How to support different lifetime schemes: time, volume, etc. ?

Additional functionality will be identified through use case analysis and investigation of potential mechanisms.

Results of this WI are expected to propose changes for existing TS as CRs.