STAMFORD -- Dividing its classes among a church, city offices and a community center was not what directors of the city's alternative school had in mind when they set out to bring cohesion to the program.

But at this point, they are just hoping to keep the current arrangement in place through the end of the school year.

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Home net group embraces copy protection technologies

The Digital Living Network Alliance will roll out its first guidelines for copy protection at the end of October, aimed at setting a standard for link-level content security across a home network.

The group will require use of the Digital Transmission Copy Protection over Internet Protocol (DTCP-IP) as a basis for interoperability among digital rights management (DRM) systems. DLNA will make use of Microsoft's Windows Media DRM for Network Devices (WMDRM-ND) as an option for systems to gain access to additional content, said Scott Smyers, president and chairman of DLNA at a digital-home conference here on Thursday (Oct 12).

Details of the guidelines will be posted at the group's Web site by the end of the month.

The DLNA has not yet defined what its logo for link-level security will look like.