> But the problem of binary formats over the long term will persist and I am not sure there is much we can do about that. It doesn’t solve the problem, but you

> But the problem of binary formats over the long term will persist and I am not sure there is much we can do about that. It doesn’t solve the problem, but you could perhaps mitigate it somewhat by having part of each unit of storage contain more me or more parsers for other formats. Eventually a standard “archival format” could evolve that way, but even if not you would be able to cross reference across multiple parsers in multiple units to to have a sort of Rosetta Stone for translations.