Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

[Antonio Carlini]

> To look at it differently -- if you handed someone a CDROM, and a
> stack of standards describing it (ISO 9660, the Red Book, etc.) but no
> computer and no CDROM drive, is that person likely to have enough
> information to recover the data on the disk?  I expect the answer is
> "no, not even close".

I would hope that the standards give you enough information
to be able to build a CDROM drive and read back the bits
on there. I'm assuming that the stack of standards includes
information on the way the bits hang together too (the
file-system or whatever).

You ould probably not need to build the CDROM drive
for just one CD. All you need, in principle, is a
high resolution microscope and either a lot of time
or some image processing software.

What is it that you think is not properly described in
the standards?

Antonio


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Antonio Carlini arcarlini at iee.org