New production of CDs for music will probably end in 10 or so years,
but not much earlier - I don't know that the discussion to end them
is even taking place yet - you have to have a replacement technology
well penetrated in the market before you stop the old stuff.
But the successor to CDs (DVD, HD-DVD) drives will still be able to
read CDs. And an ISO is just a set of bits - I don't expect the
drivers that allow us to read such a set of bits to go away
soon. Given the choice between ZIP and ISO, I'd choose iso because I
can either burn it or mount it. As for the memory stick, its just a
storage device, not a storage format. Its oranges to the apples
discussion of zip vs ISO vs PDF vs etc...
At 02:26 PM 10/6/2006, Gray, Eric wrote:
It makes sense now, but will it make sense in 10 years?
With today's DVD technology, is it completely unlikely
that ISO CD formats may not be supported by then? Is it
not possible that CDs will go the way of 8-track tapes,
beta-max, and 3.25 " floppy and 100 Mega-byte Zip drives?
I can store more data on a memory stick than I can on a
CD. In 10 years, I expect I'll be able to store as much
as 20 times the data of a CD on a stick - and I don't
think the stick uses the ISO format.
It would be a shame to have to support an "ISO format
converter" in 10 years so that people could access the
older IETF documents and proceedings...
--
Eric
--> -----Original Message-----
--> From: Michael C. StJohns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 2:14 PM
--> To: Andy Bierman; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--> Cc: ietf@ietf.org
--> Subject: Re: Proceeding CDs
-->
--> At 01:57 PM 10/6/2006, Andy Bierman wrote:
--> >If I really wanted to have a CD of the proceedings,
--> >then I would want to retrieve a .iso file from the archive.
-->
--> Actually, I *like* this option a lot.
-->
--> I don't see any reason to continue to produce the CDs, but
--> I do see a
--> need for a permanent archival form and having an ISO I
--> could download
--> and burn (or mount for that matter) makes a lot of sense.
-->
--> Mike
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