The OpticalStorage Technology Association (OSTA) and Ecma
International announced this week that the International Standards Organization (ISO) has approved a global standard to test the archive
life of recordable and rewritable DVDs. With this new standard, OSTA and EMCA hope to make it easier for end users to identify and select
archival-grade optical media.
The OpticalStorage Technology Association (OSTA) and Ecma International announcedtoday that
the International Standards Organization (ISO) has approvedISO/IEC 10995, a global standard for optical media archive life testing
forrecordable and rewritable DVDs. The standard will enable the opticalstorage industry to offer reliable archival-grade optical discs to
helpend-users select the media life expectancy best suited to their applicationrequirements.
Approval of the new standard is
the culmination of joint developmentefforts by OSTA and ECMA to define standard procedures for media archivelife testing and
classification, and then fast track the archival-gradeoptical disc testing specification through the ISO process.
If
you'd like to read more, OSTA and ECMA's entire press release can be found here.
