[boarnoah]

That doesn't address the concern re: something needing critical mass to increase its chance of survival over a longer term.

Really the way I see it outside a few large banking firms, its kind of hard to be sure any provider of digital services would be around in the 50+ year term for this kind of public archive.

I hope the Internet Archive manages it.

EDIT: I do worry the IA has a bit of a lightning rod effect with skirting issues re: legality of archiving content. IMO its no guarantee it survives any significant time span either.

[wolverine876]

> Really the way I see it outside a few large banking firms, its kind of hard to be sure any provider of digital services would be around in the 50+ year term for this kind of public archive.

A library could do it. Perhaps leading institutions like the British Library or Library of Congress. I've thought that IA should be a Library of Congress project, and may eventually end up under their auspices.