Current standardization efforts in proposing home network reference models focus too much on the underlying network communication technology. They all present a lack of a higher-level functionality abstraction, that the present industry-driven paper intends to fill, by proposing a reference model aimed at abstracting the logic of the consumption of protected content in home networks. The main characteristic of this reference model will be to become applicable to a wide variety of home network configurations, independently from the underlying network technology. In that configuration the original contribution of this paper is to propose a novel approach to modeling home networks by extracting a common logic from a variety of physical implementations.