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<p><tt>Folk, please consider participating. </tt><br>
<tt>Thanks,Bob Coyne</tt><br>
<tt>IEEE MSSTC</tt><br>
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</font><tt>September 24, San Diego, California, USA </tt>
<p><tt><b><font size="6">Archival Storage Life Cycle Management </font></b></tt>
<p><tt><i>A Workshop at the Twenty-Fourth <br>
IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies<br>
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<p><tt><b><font size="4">Workshop Description</font></b></tt>
<p><tt>The one-day workshop will examine the issues and approaches to providing data stewardship in very large data environments where copying all the data from one generation system to another is not feasible. </tt>
<p><tt>There are multiple technical, policy, legal and other related life cycle matters that affect data stewardship. Examples are: media aging and reliability characteristics; evolution over time of file system and archive software; standards; government initiatives, programs contracting trends; laws that affect retention management; security policies and technology; and the general evolution of storage technology. These matters will be discussed and expanded in terms of importance and difficulty, and the solution space will be qualified where time and agreement allow.</tt>
<p><tt>The effort is intended to be a vendor-neutral exercise.</tt>
<p><tt>The workshop will take place on Monday, September 24, 2007, the day before the beginning of general sessions of the IEEE Mass Storage Systems and Technology Conference MSST2007. See the conference web site: </tt><tt><font size="4">www.storageconference.org/2007</font></tt>
<p><tt>A short white paper is requested from each participant in the workshop, as described below. The white papers will be correlated before the workshop to create a framework for considering approaches and possible solutions.</tt>
<p><tt>The workshop will generate a report to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press with a list of participants included, and a summary of the report will be presented during the conference. </tt><br>
<p><tt><b><font size="4">How to Participate</font></b></tt>
<p><tt>Send email requesting participation to: </tt><tt><font size="4">archivestorage@ieee.org</font></tt>
<p><tt>Participants are asked to submit white papers by June 24, 2007. The white paper will be based on experience, analysis, or solid theoretical work and will relate to the workshop problem or an aspect of the problem. Papers should be about one page in length, or two if there are diagrams, written in a format that can be rendered by MS Word. </tt>
<p><tt>Depending on the number of responses, the workshop committee may take the papers into consideration in the selection of participants. Participants will be notified by e-mail no later than July 24. </tt>
<p><tt>This is to be a group effort, and all contributions, spoken or written, become property of the IEEE and may be used in IEEE workshop reports without specific attribution.</tt><br>
<p><tt><b><font size="4">Workshop Program Committee</font></b></tt>
<p><tt>Bob Coyne, IBM Software Group</tt><br>
<tt>Dick Watson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</tt><br>
<tt>Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center</tt><br>
<tt>Paul Rutherford, Isilon Systems</tt><br>
<tt>Harry Hulen, IBM Global Business Services</tt></body></html>