Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Fri Aug 13 01:07:34 2004

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Teo Zenios wrote:

> > > Error correction is just an added bonus and may or may
> > > not be worth the additional effort. Perhaps optional
> > > additional redundancy (OpenVMS BACKUP will write a
> > > parity block of data for every N blocks of real
> > > data, PAR implements "RAID for newsgroups").
> >
> > It should be possible to add error correcting data to the archive.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
> Festival
>
> You are much better off using a system that is already used by others then
> making one up as you go since the odds are a common recovery method would
> survive longer.

I have no intention to have anyone invent new wheels for this project.
All algorithms used within the spec should be reliable, proven, aged ones
that are in wide use and widely understood, implemented, and documented.

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