Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

[Antonio Carlini]

> I don't know about 4GB, but I'd really like to archive hard 
> disk images
> in the 20-30MB range using the same format if possible...

A long-lived archive format that cannot cope with a
DVD is not of much use :-) And there's those dual-layer
8+GB things available now, and Blu-Ray (20GB??) soonish
and C3D may well eventually produce those 125GB recordable
things I read about a few years ago.

How hard is it to design a standard with no theoretical
size limit? I don't expect my RML380Z to be able to
cope with an image of a DVD, but I'd expect today's
(and tomorrow's) computers to have a good go!

Anotnio

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Antonio Carlini arcarlini at iee.org