It's not a fair comparison at all. The internet is infrastructure for all globalized network applications. DRM is just software implemented by individual appl

It's not a fair comparison at all. The internet is infrastructure for all globalized network applications. DRM is just software implemented by individual applications that you can take or leave. Whether it exists in a standard is utterly irrelevant to the copyright holders who are DRM's raison d'etre, and keeping it out of standards is an idealogical stance that has no practical benefit. All that would do is make sure that Netflix et al continue to use Flash/Silverlight or whatever proprietary plugin meets the Studios ever-more-stringent DRM requirements. If you think standards bodies can do anything that places even the slightest bit of pressure on content rights holders to abandon DRM you are comically delusional. Studios have the content, they dictate the terms (why do you think Netflix got into the production business?).