Možná byste čekali, že zrovna tenhle typ materiálu (RFC) ani nikdy papírovou dobou neprošel, ale ouha. Teprve nedávno vydaná RFC 81533 - Digital Preservation Considerations for the RFC Series s papírem definitivně končí.
RFC editor ma zjevně zkušenosti se ztrátami dat (In the past, nearly 800 RFCs had to be manually transcribed
from paper back to electronic format due to a failed server migration
and insufficient backups), a teď se chce obejit úplně bez papíru.
Dokument stojí za přečtení celý, ale zde uvedu jen:
For most of the existence of the RFC Series, the digital preservation
process has been fairly simple, focusing on bitstream preservation
and relying on paper copies of digital files.
...
Given the need to balance cost and complexity with retention of
information for historic, legal, and informational purposes,
preservation efforts should focus on the XML canonical format files,
the PDF/A-3 format files, the xml2rfc tool and its documentation, and
at least two PDF reader applications capable of extracting the
embedded XML. Care should be taken that the software being included
in this archive has a provision for free copies for backup or
archival purposes. All other formats and the overall computing
environment should be stored as described in "best effort" data
retention (Section 2.4.1), which should in turn be described in the
appropriate vendor contract for the RFC Publisher.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/pdfrfc/rfc8153.txt.pdf
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