13 Jun
2000
13 Jun
'00
7:39 p.m.
Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> wrote:
Key point is to have a REAL plan with funds etc.
earmarked on the 10 and 20
year plans for the data.
Yes. VERY IMPORTANT! Yet almost noone bothers to do it. NASA has tons
(literally) of data that is decaying into worthlessness, because they
didn't have viable plans for long-term retention.
This subject came up on comp.arch recently, and I posted a message stating
that if they aren't going to plan for data retention, I don't see why they
should waste my tax dollars to collect the data in the first place. I was
expecting to get flamed for that, but apparently no one must have strongly
disagreed.