- From: Anne L. Washington, PhD <annew@gwu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:06:19 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- To: "Ronald P. Reck" <rreck@rrecktek.com>
- cc: public-gld-wg@w3.org
+1 Dan, That would work! How about this: Persistence = predictable machine access unbounded by time. It is however, a tall order. But from a standards and conceptual point of view it works to avoid any specific period of time. Thanks for asking the question Ron and thanks for the input Dan! Anne L. Washington, PhD Academic Work: George Mason University Standards Work: W3C GLD working group http://washington.gmu.edu/ On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Ronald P. Reck wrote: > 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 >> >> Dan >> >> >> Dan Gillman >> Bureau of Labor Statistics >> Office of Survey Methods Research >> 2 Massachusetts Ave, NE >> Washington, DC 20212 USA >> Tel +1.202.691.7523 >> FAX +1.202.691.7426 >> Email Gillman.Daniel@BLS.Gov >> ----------------------------------------- >> "Whatever it is, I'm against it! >> No matter what it is or who commenced it, >> I'm against it!" >> ~ Groucho Marx >> ------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> -----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 >> >> As Anne W. pointed out to me in private communications, a common definition >> of persistent sounds like this: >> >> >> Persistent = Information is machine accessible for long periods of time. >> >> >> 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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