What are the MPEG IPMP-Xs benefits to the industry and end users?
MPEG IPMP-X has been designed to provide a number of key benefits to both industry and end users: Reduction of redundant implementation: Many different DRM solutions use similar or the same components for a number of functionalities. An example could be the use of AES for decryption. If a given terminal supports AES, any DRM solution may use the terminal implemented AES as opposed to providing its own. If two DRM solutions use AES, the algorithm need not be implemented twice yet each DRM solution would have the tool it needs. Additionally, a given DRM solution need not know whether or how a given service is provided, it may simply ask if the functionality is provided and if so, use it whether or not the Terminal provides it or a loadable module provides it. Security: IPMP provides methods to perform mutual authentication and then use the resulting secure authenticated channel to support secure communications between components requiring it. Additionally mutual authentication can be use
