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Microsoft's new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
(arstechnica.com)
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One major problem with very-long-term-data-retention formats is that the hardware to read the things may not be around in a surprisingly short period of time. Like, if you assume that this format isn't bumping up against fundamental physical limits, then it will probably be supplanted down the line by something else, and people will probably stop making the devices to work with them before long. The devices to work with the media won't last as long as the media, and there probably won't be new ones produced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project#Concerns_over_electronic_preservation
I think that realistically, if you want to maintain something for very long-term archival use, it's probably going to need to be rolled over into a new format periodically.
A legal Framework that enforces systems that are still able to read this could Help
Planned Stagnation or ... Predictabillity if you will.