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OSTA and Ecma Join Forces to Establish Industry-wide Optical Disc Archival Testing Standard

Geneva (ots)

The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA)
announced today that it has signed an agreement with Ecma
International to work together to finalize an industry-wide
archival-grade optical disc specification. The purpose of this
initiative is to address end user needs calling for established
practices in media archive life testing and classification. The final
goal is the issuance of an ISO standard available to industry for
broad implementation.
Since its formation in Sept. 2005, OSTA's Optical Disc Archival
Testing (ODAT) Committee has worked with a multi-national group of
industry experts to develop a draft specification for an archival
standard. The ODAT Committee is composed of global manufacturers of
120mm optical media and drives, as well as university and government
members. Its defined charter is to develop optical media archival
test methodology and promote its implementation Recently, a first
Ecma draft of the proposed archival test standard was completed. The
project was unanimously accepted by the Ecma TC31 committee at its
recent meeting in Sapporo, Japan in late June. Further processing
will take place under its charter.
"Under the OSTA organization, we brought together various
independent groups that were working on similar ideas, in order to
reach consensus on test methodology.  Now we are partnering with Ecma
in order to leverage their expertise in the creation of broadly
adopted international standards," said Chris Smith, chairman of
OSTA's ODAT Committee, general manager of Sony Corporation's Data
Media Business Development Center in Boulder, CO, and active member
of Ecma TC31 that will develop the international standard.
About Ecma International
Since its inception in 1961, Ecma International (Ecma) has
developed standards for Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) and Consumer Electronics (CE). Ecma is a non-profit industry
association of technology developers, vendors and users. Experts from
industry and other organizations work together at Ecma to develop
standards. Ecma submits its work for approval as ISO, IEC, ISO/IEC
and ETSI standards and is the inventor and main practitioner of "fast
tracking" of specifications through the standardisation process in
International Standards Organisations (ISOs) such as the ISO and the
IEC. Publications can be downloaded free of charge from
http://www.ecma-international.org/.

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Ecma International
CH-1204 Geneva
Tel. +41/22/849'60'00/
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Internet: http://www.ecma-international.org/

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