ISO, IEC Approve Optical Disc Test Standard for Archival Grade Media - ISO/IEC 10995
February 14, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) approved ISO/IEC 10995, a standard for optical media archive life testing for recordable and rewritable DVDs.
ISO/IEC 10995 - Information technology - Digitally recorded media for information interchange and storage - Test method for the estimation of the archival lifetime of optical media will enable the optical storage industry to offer archival grade optical discs to help end-users select the media life expectancy best suited to their application requirements, said Ecma International.
Approval of the standard is the culmination of joint development efforts by the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) and Ecma to define standard procedures for media archive life testing and classification and then fast-track the archival grade optical disc testing specification through the ISO/IEC process, said Ecma International.
OSTA established the Optical Disc Archive Testing (ODAT) Committee in 2005 to enable manufacturers of 120 millimeter (mm) optical media and drives as well as university and government participants to define the test methodology.
In 2006, OSTA and Ecma agreed to work together to fast-track the test methodology initially approved as ECMA 379 through the ISO/IEC process.
Source: Ecma International.