Re: a "long period" for Stability

When it is logical through the addition of the word "unbounded" to 
"tighten up the definition", it sounds like the correct answer to me.


+1


On 02/09/2012 02:26 PM, Gillman, Daniel - BLS wrote:
> How about this?
> Persistent data - data for which machine access is unbounded
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> Dan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronald P. Reck [mailto:rreck@rrecktek.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 2:16 PM
> To: public-gld-wg@w3.org
> Subject: a "long period" for Stability
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> As Anne W. pointed out to me in private communications, a common definition of persistent sounds like this:
>
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> Persistent = Information is machine accessible for long periods of time.
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> The problem I have with this is that "long periods" is a very ambiguous
> concept on the web. I know we touched on this at the F2F but I wish I
> knew how to tighten it up a bit.
>
> - long periods to data at my house is through 2 hard drive standards
>      (MFM/IDE/EIDE/SATA..)
> - Long periods in the scope of the Internet is a couple decades...?
> - Long periods to a person might mean a generation...
> - Long periods of weather data could mean since the last ice age?
>
> Any formative comments about how I can rephrase "long periods" to scope
> it better would be appreciated.
>
> -Ronald P. Reck
>

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