On 03/18/2011 12:06 PM, Michael J. Giarlo wrote:
> On 03/17/2011 04:47 PM, Owens, Trevor wrote:
>>
>> ==Questions for Service Providers==
>>
>> *What preservation strategies would your system support?
>
> I'm not sure what this means.  Perhaps the drafter of this question
> could provide an example or two in parentheses?

I don't get that either.

>> *How can the cloud environment impact digital preservation activities?
>
> Perhaps change "the cloud" to "your system's" to be less broad.
>
>   >  *If we put
>> data in your system today what systems and processes are in place so
>> that we can get it back 50 years from now? (Take for granted a
>> sophisticated audience that knows about multiple copies etc.)
>
> Gosh, can any of us imagine a system of today lasting 50 years?  Maybe
> 5-10 years would be more realistic.

I didn't draft this but I think it's intentional. It gets at migration. 
If 50 seems eye-rollingly large, then I think we want to pick a number 
that is at least longer than the expected lifetime of a given hardware 
system, so I'd suggest 10 years.

>> ==Questions for Member Implementers==
>
> These questions are on the agenda on the wiki, so I've edited them
> in-place there to more easily track revisions.
>
> -Mike
>
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