[SCC_Active_Members] Software Archive Problem Statements?

[Larry Masinter]

(not sure if my messages are making it to the mailing list)

> If you are worried about deterioration of the media causing
> corruption undetected by the CD-reader, or something like that, then
> "md5sum" or some other high-reliability checksumming system
> is perfect. 

And what is the process for recovering the data once
you discover that the media has deteriorated?

Again, these are topics that have been well-explored.

I don't have any software in particular I would suggest, but
this is an area where the technology has been well explored.

See, for example, http://larry.masinter.net/0603-archiving.pdf .

Larry