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Corrections and amendments are separate (but related) documents. Preventing them from being retroactively applied to the original version of the source document
by a1369209993 6y ago
Corrections and amendments are separate (but related) documents. Preventing them from being retroactively applied to the original version of the source document is the specific thing that a archival-quality document storage is supposed to do (as opposed a non-archival-quality storage, which only needs to protect against data loss (as in turn opposed to a cache, which can rely on a backing storage)).
- ComodoHacker 6y agoLooks like you agree that an archival-quality document storage assumes a bit more than hashing papers. That was my point.
- a1369209993 6y agoIf that was your point, it was very poorly made, since you appeared to be claiming that archival-quality document storage required much more than hashing papers. Archival-quality document storage requires two things: 1, hashing papers; 2, guaranteeing that the preimages of those hashes (ie the papers) remain available despite accidental and deliberate forces toward their destruction. Non-archival-quality document storage already requires thing 2, we just want to add more nines of reliablity to those guarantees, which is a fundamentally technical endeavor that the likes of Springer/Elsevier don't particularly help with.