Introduction of the Domain Issuer in OMA DRM

Abstract

We present the introduction of the Domain Issuer in the Open Mobile Alliance digital rights management (OMA DRM) standard. Domains enable users to access content on multiple devices. In OMA DRM 2.0 Rights Issuers manage which devices belong to a domain besides issuing licenses. However, this results in a confusing customer experience when users buy content from different providers and must maintain a domain at each of them. Sharing domains over multiple content providers solves this problem, and this paper presents an architecture that introduces the Domain Issuer to manage this shared domain.