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<font size="4" face="Courier New">September 24, San Diego, California, USA </font>
<p><b><font size="4" face="Courier New">Archival Storage Life Cycle Management </font></b>
<p><i><font size="4" face="Courier New">A Workshop at the Twenty-Fourth <br>
IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies<br>
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<p><b><font size="4" face="Courier New">Workshop Description</font></b>
<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">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. </font>
<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">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.</font>
<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">The effort is intended to be a vendor-neutral exercise.</font>
<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">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: </font><font size="4" face="Courier New">www.storageconference.org/2007</font>
<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">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.</font>
<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">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. </font><br>
<p><b><font size="4" face="Courier New">How to Participate</font></b>
<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">Send email requesting participation to: </font><font size="4" face="Courier New">archivestorage@ieee.org</font>
<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">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. </font>
<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">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. </font>
<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">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.</font><br>
<p><b><font size="4" face="Courier New">Workshop Program Committee</font></b>
<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">Bob Coyne, IBM Software Group</font><br>
<font size="4" face="Courier New">Dick Watson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</font><br>
<font size="4" face="Courier New">Hariett Coverston, Sun Microsystems</font><br>
<font size="4" face="Courier New">Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center</font><br>
<font size="4" face="Courier New">Paul Rutherford, Isilon Systems</font><br>
<font size="4" face="Courier New">Harry Hulen, IBM Global Business Services</font><br>
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