Self-contained Information Retention Format (SIRF)

Abstract

The SIRF format enables long-term physical storage, cloud storage and tape-based containers effective and efficient ways to preserve and secure digital information for many decades, even with the ever-changing technology landscape. This SNIA Technical Position specifies the Self-contained Information Retention Format (SIRF) Level 1 and its serialization for LTFS, CDMI and OpenStack Swift.

General Information

Publication date: 07 December 2016

Working groups: https://www.snia.org/ltr

ICT rolling plan topic: Data storage services

SDO: SNIA

Latest publishied version: https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/technical_work/SIRF/SIRF_V1_Technical_Position.pdf