Geographic information — Rights expression language for geographic information — GeoREL

ISO 19149:2011 defines an XML-based vocabulary or language to express rights for geographic information in order that digital licenses can be created for such information and related services. This language, GeoREL, is an extension of the rights expression language in ISO/IEC 21000-5 and is to be used to compose digital licenses. Each digital license will unambiguously express those particular rights that the owners (or their agent) of a digital geographic resource extend to the holders of that license. The digital rights management system in which these licenses are used can then offer ex ante (before the fact) protection for all such resources. NOTE The proper use of a GeoREL includes the preservation of rights access by formula expressed in usage licenses. Thus, data in the public or private domain, when protected, remain in their respective domains if the usage rights granted so state. These "rights" are not always covered by copyright law, and are often the result of contracts between individuals that specify the proper and allowed uses of resources, as opposed to the threat of copyright litigations which is an ex post facto (after the fact) remediation measure, not an ex ante protection measure. ISO 19149:2011 is not a reflection of, or extension of, copyright law. Mechanisms for the enforcement and preservation of those contract rights are specified in ISO/IEC 21000, and it is not the intention of ISO 19149:2011 to replace nor redefine those mechanisms, but to use them as previously standardized.

Information géographique — Langue sur l'expression des droits pour l'utilisation de l'information géographique — GeoREL

Geografske informacije - Jezik izražanja pravic za geografske informacije - GeoREL

Ta mednarodni standard določa slovar ali jezik na osnovi XML za izražanje digitalnih pravic za geografske informacije, da se lahko za tovrstne informacije in povezane storitve ustvarijo digitalna dovoljenja. Ta jezik, GeoREL, je razširitev jezika izražanja digitalnih pravic iz standarda ISO/IEC 21000-5 in je namenjen oblikovanju digitalnih dovoljenj. Vsako digitalno dovoljenje nedvoumno izraža te posebne pravice, ki jih lastniki (ali njihov agent) digitalnega geografskega vira podelijo imetnikom tega dovoljenja. Sistem upravljanja digitalnih pravic, v katerem se ta dovoljenja uporabljajo, lahko nato zagotovi predhodno (vnaprejšnjo) zaščito za vse tovrstne vire.

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INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 19149
First edition
2011-11-15

Geographic information — Rights
expression language for geographic
information — GeoREL
Information géographique — Langue sur l'expression des droits pour
l'utilisation de l'information géographique — GeoREL




Reference number
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Contents Page
Foreword . vi
Introduction . vii
1 Scope . 1
2 Conformance . 1
3 Normative references . 2
4 Terms and definitions . 2
5 Symbols and abbreviated terms . 2
5.1 Abbreviated terms . 2
5.2 Symbols used for common XML namespaces . 3
6 Digital rights management systems . 3
7 Requirements for the expression of digital licenses for geographic resources . 4
8 Geographic rights expression language extensions — GeoREL . 5
8.1 Technical approach . 5
8.2 Spatial entities used in conditions . 6
8.3 Resources . 8
8.3.1 Resources from ISO/IEC 21000 . 8
8.3.2 GeoResource . 8
8.3.3 Data resources: GeoInformation resource metadata . 9
8.3.4 Service resources: GeoProcessing resource metadata . 11
8.4 Principals . 14
8.5 Rights . 15
8.5.1 Usage Rights . 15
8.5.2 Meta-rights . 21
8.6 Conditions . 21
8.6.1 Semantics . 21
8.6.2 Property conditions and grant component patterns . 21
8.6.3 Standards-defined operations . 21
8.6.4 Output conditions . 22
8.6.5 Transfer right and sublicense conditions on meta-rights . 22
8.6.6 Spatial temporal conditions . 23
8.6.7 Layer conditions . 24
8.6.8 Implementation conditions . 24
8.6.9 Parameter range conditions . 24
8.6.10 Derived right conditions . 24
8.6.11 Encoding condition . 25
8.6.12 Side effect and associated conditions . 25
Annex A (normative) Abstract test suite . 27
A.1 The two test cases . 27
A.2 License conformance . 27
A.2.1 Introduction . 27
A.2.2 XML schema conformance . 27
A.2.3 Proper interpretation . 28
A.3 Enforcement conformance . 28
Annex B (normative) geoRel.xsd . 29
Annex C (informative) Notes on the ISO REL, ISO/IEC 21000-5 . 36
C.1 Overview . 36
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C.2 License parts .36
C.3 Issuer .37
C.4 For all declaration of variables .37
C.5 Renderer .38
Bibliography .40

Examples and Schemata
Schema 1: GeoPlace . 6
Schema 2: Property and parameter schema . 7
Schema 3: Resource from ISO/IEC 21000 . 8
Schema 4: GeoResource and GeoProcess schema . 9
Example 1: geoResource License . 10
Example 2: geoResource License for a Restricted Area by Name . 12
Example 3: geoProcess License . 13
Example 4: “public user” geoPrincipal defined by functional property . 15
Schema 5: GeoRight . 16
Schema 6: Use . 16
Schema 7: Display . 17
Schema 8: Merge . 17
Schema 9: Extract . 17
Schema 10: Transform . 18
Schema 11: Derive . 18
Schema 12: Edit . 18
Schema 13: Modify . 19
Schema 14: Derive Graphic . 19
Schema 15: Encode . 19
Schema 16: Execute . 20
Example 5: geoProcess used as execute conditions . 20
Schema 17: GeoCondition . 21
Schema 18: Standard compliance conditions . 22
Schema 19: Output format conditions . 22
Schema 20: Transfer conditions . 22
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Schema 21: Spatial temporal conditions . 23
Schema 22: Derived right conditions . 24
Schema 23: Encoding conditions . 25
Schema 24: Side Effects . 25
Schema C.1: License Part from ISO REL . 36
Schema C.2: For all variable definition from ISO REL . 37
Example C.1: Property for all elements using “certificate license” from ISO REL . 38
Schema C.3: Renderer from ISO REL, MX extension . 39

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Foreword
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies
(ISO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through ISO
technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been
established has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and
non-governmental, in liaison with ISO, also take part in the work. ISO collaborates closely with the
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on all matters of electrotechnical standardization.
International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
The main task of technical committees is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards
adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an
International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
ISO 19149 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics. A base
document was supplied by the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

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Introduction
The use of ubiquitous computing in geographic information is often obstructed by legal concerns about the
rights of the holders and owners of data and other intellectual property resources. It can be the case that once
data or other resource is released into any unconstrained and unprotected environment, the value of the
holding is decreased because the underlying data theoretically becomes available from other sources. The
multimedia industry has taken the lead in solving this problem by creating a general model for digital rights
protection, in which a language was developed in order that instances of those rights might be documented, a
rights expression language, specifically in ISO/IEC 21000-5, the ISO REL. This language, used in conjunction
with Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems, can protect the value of data and still allow it to be
distributed subject to a system of licensing, trust and enforcement.
This International Standard extends the ISO REL to encompass the concerns of holders of geographic data
and service resources to equally ensure their protection. This allows the geographic information market to
operate with minimal constraints derived from the need for the protection of intellectual property.
There are two major sources for foundational material for this work.
 The first source is ISO/IEC 21000, a multiple part standard that defines digital rights management in
general. There is no need to extend this basic foundation for expressing and enforcing rights for
resources except in those cases where the special requirements of geographic information and services
make it necessary.
 The second source is ISO 19153 (originally an Open Geospatial Abstract Specification volume), which
enumerates these special cases for geographic information as well as providing an overall reference
model using common geographic information terms that ties the work of the ISO/IEC 21000 work into this
spatial standard.
Given these two foundations, the purpose of this International Standard is to extend the ISO REL, consistent
with the requirements for such extensions given in ISO/IEC 21000-5, to cover the special cases enumerated
in ISO 19153.

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Geographic information — Rights expression language for
geographic information — GeoREL
1 Scope
This International Standard defines an XML-based vocabulary or language to express rights for geographic
information in order that digital licenses can be created for such information and related services. This
language, GeoREL, is an extension of the rights expression language in ISO/IEC 21000-5 and is to be used to
compose digital licenses. Each digital license will unambiguously express those particular rights that the
owners (or their agent) of a digital geographic resource extend to the holders of that license. The digital rights
management system in which these licenses are used can then offer ex ante (before the fact) protection for all
such resources.
NOTE The proper use of a GeoREL includes the preservation of rights access by formula expressed in usage
licenses. Thus, data in the public or private domain, when protected, remain in their respective domains if the usage rights
granted so state.
These “rights” are not always covered by copyright law, and are often the result of contracts between
individuals that specify the proper and allowed uses of resources, as opposed to the threat of copyright
litigations which is an ex post facto (after the fact) remediation measure, not an ex ante protection measure.
This International Standard is not a reflection of, or extension of, copyright law.
Mechanisms for the enforcement and preservation of those contract rights are specified in ISO/IEC 21000,
and it is not the intention of this International Standard to replace nor redefine those mechanisms, but to use
them as previously standardized.
2 Conformance
The license language vocabulary is expressed as an XML schema extending the ISO/IEC 21000-5 REL. A
conformant license expression is a well-formed and complete XML document (or its equivalent) that
expresses the semantics described in the standard and that is properly protected from modification by the
mechanisms described and specified in ISO/IEC 21000.
A license compliant to this International Standard will be consistent with the XML schema for ISO/IEC 21000-5
and the XML schema associated with this International Standard (see requirements in Clause 6).
A software system compliant to this International Standard shall interpret any compliant license in a manner
consistent with the semantics expressed in ISO/IEC 21000 and the abstract test suite given in Annex A.
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3 Normative references
The following referenced standards are indispensable for the application of this International Standard. For
dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
standard (including any amendments) applies.
1)
ISO 19153 , Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model (GeoDRM RM)
ISO/IEC 21000 (all parts), Information technology — Multimedia framework (MPEG-21)
4 Terms and definitions
2)
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO/IEC 21000 apply .
The terms “constraint” and “condition” are used interchangeably, and no distinction is meant in terms of the
license based on which term is used. This differs from other cases where constraints are expressed as the
contrapositive of conditions.
Following the precedent set in ISO/IEC 21000, the alternative English (Oxford English Dictionary) spelling of
the word license has been used in all instances, except when used in proper names. This is in contradiction to
the ISO 19153, and the preferred English usage, where the word “license” is usually a verb and the word
“licence” is a noun. Both US and UK English dictionaries accept the “s” spellings for the noun, and so this is
not in variance with any current dictionary in either dialect. The basic reason for this is to not confuse the
spelling of the XML elements (which use the ISO/IEC 21000 spellings) with the spellings in the text. No
semantic difference is meant by this typographic convention.
5 Symbols and abbreviated terms
5.1 Abbreviated terms
The following symbols and abbreviated terms are used in this document.
DRM Digital Rights Management
GeoREL Rights Expression Language for Geographic Information (including the ISO REL and the
extension defined in this International Standard)
GeoDRM Digital Rights Management for Geographic Information
ISO REL Rights Expression Language from ISO/IEC 21000-5 (see Annex C for notes on ISO REL)
LBS Location Based Service
REL Rights Expression Language
UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
URI Uniform Resource Identifier

1) To be published.
2) This International Standard does not include an abstract model. It depends on the models in ISO/IEC 21000 and
ISO 19153.
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WFS Web Feature Service (ISO 19142)
WSDL Web Services Definition Language
XML Extensible Markup Language
5.2 Symbols used for common XML namespaces
The following namespace prefixes are used in the in-text XML and XML Schema fragments:
grm Namespace prefix for the geoRel.xsd license extensions
xsd Namespace prefix for the XML Schema basic types, used in defining schema elements
r Namespace prefix for rel-r.xsd in ISO/IEC 21000, representing the namespace
urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2003:01-REL-R-NS
sx Namespace prefix for rel-sx.xsd in ISO/IEC 21000, representing the namespace
urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2003:01-REL-SX-NS
mx Namespace prefix for rel-mx.xsd in ISO/IEC 21000, representing the namespace
urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2003:01-REL-MX-NS
Examples in this International Standard are given as informative illustrations of ideas, and are not valid
licenses, since they lack the appropriate signature values that would allow them to be recognized by a
qualified security system as well-formed. Other than the absence of signature keys, the fragments are valid, in
the sense that within a properly signed license document, they would be valid and correctly parsed and
interpreted if correctly placed in the larger context of a license. They do conform to the XML schemas using
the above namespace prefixes, unless abbreviated elements are used, and in those cases, the abbreviations
are noted in the text, or in the use of ellipsis marks (…) between opening and closing element tags.
To make the requirements expressed in this International Standard easier to find, normative statements
specifying either requirements or recommendations have been presented in a bold font.
6 Digital rights management systems
This International Standard is written within the model defined in ISO 19153 and within the model defined in
ISO/IEC 21000, including all of its parts. The license structure is defined in ISO/IEC 21000-5 and this
International Standard only addresses the extension of that license format for the purpose of creating a
licensing vocabulary for geographic resources, both data and services, using as much of the existing
ISO/IEC 21000-defined framework as possible. An informative description of the entire MPEG-21 systems as
[6]
defined in ISO/IEC 21000 is given in The MPEG-21 Book cited in the Bibliography.
For this purpose, this International Standard defines extensions only to license parts appearing in grants as
defined by ISO/IEC 21000-5 and whose semantics are described in ISO 19153. All security, principal identity,
and generic resource descriptions and identity descriptions remain as defined in ISO/IEC 21000.
In all cases, licenses valid under this International Standard shall be consistent with the schema given
in Annex B and those schemas imported by it, and shall carry a valid digital signature of the resource
owner or of one of the owner's recognized agents.
A software system compliant to this International Standard shall interpret any compliant license in a
manner consistent with the semantics expressed in ISO/IEC 21000 and this International Standard.
These dependencies on ISO/IEC 21000 and ISO 19153 provide the context for this International Standard.
ISO/IEC 21000 provides a general system description for digital rights management, license construction and
interpretation, and covers the security techniques that make such systems feasible. ISO 19153 provides a
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reference model including those items in the realm of geographic information that require the protection of a
licensing system. The extension to the ISO REL as presented in this International Standard is where these
two dependencies interact. ISO/IEC 21000 gives requirements for the mechanism for extending the ISO REL
and ISO 19153 provides the semantics for those same extensions.
7 Requirements for the expression of digital licenses for geographic resources
A license in a rights expression language has as its major component a sequence of grants which specifies
which individuals (represented by principals) may commit which acts (represented by rights) against which
items (represented as resources) under which circumstances (represented by conditions). Within an ISO REL
grant (XML element r:grant; see Figure 1), these four types of items are specified in the following order,
including:
1) Principal – the parties to whom the licensed right is granted, the licensee;
2) Rights – the act or actions covered by the rights licensed by this grant;
3) Resources – the items to be licensed, and hence to which rights are granted;
4) Conditions – conditions on any parts specific to this grant.
Descriptive terms associated with resources, rights and principals because of their geographic nature are
needed in the license extension defined by this International Standard. These terms are given in geoCondition
elements, using references to the described Principal, Right or Resource using standard ISO/IEC 21000-5
mechanisms. The most obvious requirements deal with geographic constraints within a database resource.
Less obvious, but just as important, is the description of geographic processing resources or services that
may be associated in particular or in kind to other resources.
These descriptions can link across multiple licenses to create behaviours of the licensing system as required.
EXAMPLE
 A license can be given to each emergency management professional for a given area as proof of his status.
 A license can be associated with each data or service resource that gives emergency management professionals
access to use the resource but triggers a side effect that records that access.
 In an emergency, the emergency management professional can use his “proof of status” license to gain access to the
resources in the group above.
This is a simple implementation strategy for a “break the glass” use of normally restricted data by authorized
personnel.
Since the actions against these types of resources cannot be defined completely within the purview of
multimedia, the rights associated with geographic data and processing resources require further description
within a geo-license than they would in a baseline ISO/IEC 21000 license.
With new actions (rights) and geographic resources, the conditions placed on grants require more description
to fully meet the need of the geographic information and processing communities. Conditions describe how
the license part is constrained, using the property or Boolean expression that needs to be matched by that
part.
The other parts of a license, including the security specifications and identification, are not affected by the
association of geographic properties to the licensed res
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iii Contents Page Foreword . vi Introduction . vii 1 Scope . 1 2 Conformance . 1 3 Normative references . 2 4 Terms and definitions . 2 5 Symbols and abbreviated terms . 2 5.1 Abbreviated terms . 2 5.2 Symbols used for common XML namespaces . 3 6 Digital rights management systems . 3 7 Requirements for the expression of digital licenses for geographic resources . 4 8 Geographic rights expression language extensions — GeoREL . 5 8.1 Technical approach . 5 8.2 Spatial entities used in conditions . 6 8.3 Resources . 8 8.3.1 Resources from ISO/IEC 21000 . 8 8.3.2 GeoResource . 8 8.3.3 Data resources: GeoInformation resource metadata . 9 8.3.4 Service resources: GeoProcessing resource metadata . 11 8.4 Principals . 14 8.5 Rights . 15 8.5.1 Usage Rights . 15 8.5.2 Meta-rights . 21 8.6 Conditions . 21 8.6.1 Semantics . 21 8.6.2 Property conditions and grant component patterns . 21 8.6.3 Standards-defined operations . 21 8.6.4 Output conditions . 22 8.6.5 Transfer right and sublicense conditions on meta-rights . 22 8.6.6 Spatial temporal conditions . 23 8.6.7 Layer conditions . 24 8.6.8 Implementation conditions . 24 8.6.9 Parameter range conditions . 24 8.6.10 Derived right conditions . 24 8.6.11 Encoding condition . 25 8.6.12 Side effect and associated conditions . 25 Annex A (normative)
Abstract test suite . 27 A.1 The two test cases . 27 A.2 License conformance . 27 A.2.1 Introduction . 27 A.2.2 XML schema conformance . 27 A.2.3 Proper interpretation . 28 A.3 Enforcement conformance . 28 Annex B (normative)
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Examples and Schemata Schema 1: GeoPlace . 6 Schema 2: Property and parameter schema . 7 Schema 3: Resource from ISO/IEC 21000 . 8 Schema 4: GeoResource and GeoProcess schema . 9 Example 1: geoResource License . 10 Example 2: geoResource License for a Restricted Area by Name . 12 Example 3: geoProcess License . 13 Example 4: “public user” geoPrincipal defined by functional property . 15 Schema 5: GeoRight . 16 Schema 6: Use . 16 Schema 7: Display . 17 Schema 8: Merge . 17 Schema 9: Extract . 17 Schema 10: Transform . 18 Schema 11: Derive . 18 Schema 12: Edit . 18 Schema 13: Modify . 19 Schema 14: Derive Graphic . 19 Schema 15: Encode . 19 Schema 16: Execute . 20 Example 5: geoProcess used as execute conditions . 20 Schema 17: GeoCondition . 21 Schema 18: Standard compliance conditions . 22 Schema 19: Output format conditions . 22 Schema 20: Transfer conditions . 22 SIST ISO 19149:2012



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v Schema 21: Spatial temporal conditions . 23 Schema 22: Derived right conditions . 24 Schema 23: Encoding conditions . 25 Schema 24: Side Effects . 25 Schema C.1: License Part from ISO REL . 36 Schema C.2: For all variable definition from ISO REL . 37 Example C.1: Property for all elements using “certificate license” from ISO REL . 38 Schema C.3: Renderer from ISO REL, MX extension . 39
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© ISO 2011 – All rights reserved Foreword ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (ISO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through ISO technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been established has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO, also take part in the work. ISO collaborates closely with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on all matters of electrotechnical standardization. International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2. The main task of technical committees is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ISO 19149 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics. A base document was supplied by the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
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vii Introduction The use of ubiquitous computing in geographic information is often obstructed by legal concerns about the rights of the holders and owners of data and other intellectual property resources. It can be the case that once data or other resource is released into any unconstrained and unprotected environment, the value of the holding is decreased because the underlying data theoretically becomes available from other sources. The multimedia industry has taken the lead in solving this problem by creating a general model for digital rights protection, in which a language was developed in order that instances of those rights might be documented, a rights expression language, specifically in ISO/IEC 21000-5, the ISO REL. This language, used in conjunction with Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems, can protect the value of data and still allow it to be distributed subject to a system of licensing, trust and enforcement. This International Standard extends the ISO REL to encompass the concerns of holders of geographic data and service resources to equally ensure their protection. This allows the geographic information market to operate with minimal constraints derived from the need for the protection of intellectual property. There are two major sources for foundational material for this work.  The first source is ISO/IEC 21000, a multiple part standard that defines digital rights management in general. There is no need to extend this basic foundation for expressing and enforcing rights for resources except in those cases where the special requirements of geographic information and services make it necessary.  The second source is ISO 19153 (originally an Open Geospatial Abstract Specification volume), which enumerates these special cases for geographic information as well as providing an overall reference model using common geographic information terms that ties the work of the ISO/IEC 21000 work into this spatial standard. Given these two foundations, the purpose of this International Standard is to extend the ISO REL, consistent with the requirements for such extensions given in ISO/IEC 21000-5, to cover the special cases enumerated in ISO 19153.
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 19149:2011(E) © ISO 2011 – All rights reserved 1 Geographic information — Rights expression language for geographic information — GeoREL 1 Scope This International Standard defines an XML-based vocabulary or language to express rights for geographic information in order that digital licenses can be created for such information and related services. This language, GeoREL, is an extension of the rights expression language in ISO/IEC 21000-5 and is to be used to compose digital licenses. Each digital license will unambiguously express those particular rights that the owners (or their agent) of a digital geographic resource extend to the holders of that license. The digital rights management system in which these licenses are used can then offer ex ante (before the fact) protection for all such resources. NOTE The proper use of a GeoREL includes the preservation of rights access by formula expressed in usage licenses. Thus, data in the public or private domain, when protected, remain in their respective domains if the usage rights granted so state. These “rights” are not always covered by copyright law, and are often the result of contracts between individuals that specify the proper and allowed uses of resources, as opposed to the threat of copyright litigations which is an ex post facto (after the fact) remediation measure, not an ex ante protection measure. This International Standard is not a reflection of, or extension of, copyright law. Mechanisms for the enforcement and preservation of those contract rights are specified in ISO/IEC 21000, and it is not the intention of this International Standard to replace nor redefine those mechanisms, but to use them as previously standardized. 2 Conformance The license language vocabulary is expressed as an XML schema extending the ISO/IEC 21000-5 REL. A conformant license expression is a well-formed and complete XML document (or its equivalent) that expresses the semantics described in the standard and that is properly protected from modification by the mechanisms described and specified in ISO/IEC 21000. A license compliant to this International Standard will be consistent with the XML schema for ISO/IEC 21000-5 and the XML schema associated with this International Standard (see requirements in Clause 6). A software system compliant to this International Standard shall interpret any compliant license in a manner consistent with the semantics expressed in ISO/IEC 21000 and the abstract test suite given in Annex A. SIST ISO 19149:2012



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3 Normative references The following referenced standards are indispensable for the application of this International Standard. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced standard (including any amendments) applies. ISO 191531), Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model (GeoDRM RM) ISO/IEC 21000 (all parts), Information technology — Multimedia framework (MPEG-21) 4 Terms and definitions For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO/IEC 21000 apply2). The terms “constraint” and “condition” are used interchangeably, and no distinction is meant in terms of the license based on which term is used. This differs from other cases where constraints are expressed as the contrapositive of conditions. Following the precedent set in ISO/IEC 21000, the alternative English (Oxford English Dictionary) spelling of the word license has been used in all instances, except when used in proper names. This is in contradiction to the ISO 19153, and the preferred English usage, where the word “license” is usually a verb and the word “licence” is a noun. Both US and UK English dictionaries accept the “s” spellings for the noun, and so this is not in variance with any current dictionary in either dialect. The basic reason for this is to not confuse the spelling of the XML elements (which use the ISO/IEC 21000 spellings) with the spellings in the text. No semantic difference is meant by this typographic convention. 5 Symbols and abbreviated terms 5.1 Abbreviated terms The following symbols and abbreviated terms are used in this document. DRM Digital Rights Management GeoREL Rights Expression Language for Geographic Information (including the ISO REL and the extension defined in this International Standard) GeoDRM Digital Rights Management for Geographic Information ISO REL Rights Expression Language from ISO/IEC 21000-5 (see Annex C for notes on ISO REL) LBS Location Based Service REL Rights Expression Language UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration URI Uniform Resource Identifier 1) To be published. 2) This International Standard does not include an abstract model. It depends on the models in ISO/IEC 21000 and ISO 19153. SIST ISO 19149:2012



ISO 19149:2011(E) © ISO 2011 – All rights reserved 3 WFS Web Feature Service (ISO 19142) WSDL Web Services Definition Language XML Extensible Markup Language 5.2 Symbols used for common XML namespaces The following namespace prefixes are used in the in-text XML and XML Schema fragments: grm Namespace prefix for the geoRel.xsd license extensions xsd Namespace prefix for the XML Schema basic types, used in defining schema elements r Namespace prefix for rel-r.xsd in ISO/IEC 21000, representing the namespace urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2003:01-REL-R-NS sx Namespace prefix for rel-sx.xsd in ISO/IEC 21000, representing the namespace urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2003:01-REL-SX-NS mx Namespace prefix for rel-mx.xsd in ISO/IEC 21000, representing the namespace urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2003:01-REL-MX-NS Examples in this International Standard are given as informative illustrations of ideas, and are not valid licenses, since they lack the appropriate signature values that would allow them to be recognized by a qualified security system as well-formed. Other than the absence of signature keys, the fragments are valid, in the sense that within a properly signed license document, they would be valid and correctly parsed and interpreted if correctly placed in the larger context of a license. They do conform to the XML schemas using the above namespace prefixes, unless abbreviated elements are used, and in those cases, the abbreviations are noted in the text, or in the use of ellipsis marks (…) between opening and closing element tags. To make the requirements expressed in this International Standard easier to find, normative statements specifying either requirements or recommendations have been presented in a bold font. 6 Digital rights management systems This International Standard is written within the model defined in ISO 19153 and within the model defined in ISO/IEC 21000, including all of its parts. The license structure is defined in ISO/IEC 21000-5 and this International Standard only addresses the extension of that license format for the purpose of creating a licensing vocabulary for geographic resources, both data and services, using as much of the existing ISO/IEC 21000-defined framework as possible. An informative description of the entire MPEG-21 systems as defined in ISO/IEC 21000 is given in The MPEG-21 Book [6] cited in the Bibliography. For this purpose, this International Standard defines extensions only to license parts appearing in grants as defined by ISO/IEC 21000-5 and whose semantics are described in ISO 19153. All security, principal identity, and generic resource descriptions and identity descriptions remain as defined in ISO/IEC 21000. In all cases, licenses valid under this International Standard shall be consistent with the schema given in Annex B and those schemas imported by it, and shall carry a valid digital signature of the resource owner or of one of the owner's recognized agents. A software system compliant to this International Standard shall interpret any compliant license in a manner consistent with the semantics expressed in ISO/IEC 21000 and this International Standard. These dependencies on ISO/IEC 21000 and ISO 19153 provide the context for this International Standard. ISO/IEC 21000 provides a general system description for digital rights management, license construction and interpretation, and covers the security techniques that make such systems feasible. ISO 19153 provides a SIST ISO 19149:2012



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© ISO 2011 – All rights reserved reference model including those items in the realm of geographic information that require the protection of a licensing system. The extension to the ISO REL as presented in this International Standard is where these two dependencies interact. ISO/IEC 21000 gives requirements for the mechanism for extending the ISO REL and ISO 19153 provides the semantics for those same extensions. 7 Requirements for the expression of digital licenses for geographic resources A license in a rights expression language has as its major component a sequence of grants which specifies which individuals (represented by principals) may commit which acts (represented by rights) against which items (represented as resources) under which circumstances (represented by conditions). Within an ISO REL grant (XML element r:grant; see Figure 1), these four types of items are specified in the following order, including: 1) Principal – the parties to whom the licensed right is granted, the licensee; 2) Rights – the act or actions covered by the rights licensed by this grant; 3) Resources – the items to be licensed, and hence to which rights are granted; 4) Conditions – conditions on any parts specific to this grant.
Descriptive terms associated with resources, rights and principals because of their geographic nature are needed in the license extension defined by this International Standard. These terms are given in geoCondition elements, using references to the described Principal, Right or Resource using standard ISO/IEC 21000-5 mechanisms. The most obvious requirements deal with geographic constraints within a database resource. Less obvious, but just as important, is the description of geographic processing resources or services that may be associated in particular or in kind to other resources. These descriptions can link across multiple licenses to create behaviours of the licensing system as required. EXAMPLE  A license can be given to each emergency management professional for a given area as proof of his status.  A license can be associated with each data or service resource that gives emergency management professionals access to use the resource but triggers a side effect that records that access.  In an emergency, the emergency management professional can use his “proof of status” license to gain access to the resources in the group above. This is a simple implementation strategy for a “break the glass” use of normally restricted data by authorized personnel. Since the actions against these types of resources cannot be defined completely within the purview of multimedia, the rights associated with geographic data and processing resources require further description within a geo-license than they would in a baseline ISO/IEC 21000 license. With new actions (rights) and geographic resources, the conditions placed on grants require more description to fully meet the need of the geographic information and processing communities. Conditions describe how the license part is constrained, using the property or Boolean expression that needs to be matched by that part. The other parts of a license, including the security specifications and identification, are not affected by the association of geograph
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