Revision 2013
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 23 Optical Disk Cartridges for Information Interchange
Scope: Standardization in the field of removable digital storage media utilizing optical, holographic and magnetic recording technologies, and flash memory technologies for digital information interchange, including:
– algorithms for the lossless compression of data
– volume and file structure
– methods for determining the life expectancy of digital storage media
– methods for error monitoring of digital storage media”.
History:
1985
- The 1st ISO/TC 97/SC 23 Plenary meeting was held, 1985-05-20/23 in Tokyo. [Chair: J. Shimada, Secretary; T. Misao]
1986
- The 2nd TC 97/SC 23 Plenary was held, 1986-09-22/25 in Geneva
1987
- The 3rd TC 97/SC 23 Plenary was held 1987-10-13/16 in Washington D.C.
- The 1st JTC 1 Plenary was held 1987.11.17-20 in Tokyo. JTC 1/SC 23 was established. SC 23 had the following four WGs and one ad hoc group:.
WG 1: Permanent Editing Committee (Convenor: Mr. D Hekimi),
WG 2: Development of Draft Standards for ODCs (Mr. Mike Deese),
WG 3: 300 mm WORM ODCs (Convenor: Mr. Lannic),
WG 4: 130 mm WORM ODCs (Convenor: Dr. Verhoeven)
Ad hoc group on 356 mm WORM ODCs (Convenor: Mr. Dreessen).
1988
- The fist plenary meeting of SC 23 was held in Maastricht Netherlands.
1989
- The second plenary meeting of SC 23 was held in Tokyo Japan.
- The title changed from “Optical Digital Data Disk” to “Optical Disk Cartridges for Information Interchange”.
1990
- The third plenary meeting of SC 23 was held in Washington USA.
- WG 5: 356mm WORM ODCS (Convenor: Mr. R. Dreessen) was established.
1991
- The fourth plenary meeting of SC 23 was held in Sofia Bulgaria.
- WG 4 was disbanded.
- Mr. J. van den Beld was appointed as WG 1 Convenor..
1993
- The fifth plenary meeting of SC 23 was held in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
- Dr. Yoshinobu Mitsuhashi was endorsed as the new chairman.
1994
- The sixth plenary meeting of SC 23 was held in Geneva, Switzerland.
1995
- The seventh plenary meeting of SC 23 was held in Seoul, Republic of Korea .
1996
- The eighth plenary meeting of SC 23 was held in Berlin, Germany.
1997
- The ninth plenary meeting of SC 23 was held in Washington DC. USA.
- Dr. Tomoyuki Toshima was endorsed as the new chairman.
1998
- WG 3 and WG 5 were disbanded.
- The scope of SC 23 was modified to “Standardization of Optical Disk Cartridges for Media and Information Interchange between Information Processing Systems including their Volume and File Structure”
1999
- The tenth plenary meeting of SC 23 was held in Beijing, China.
- WG 1 and WG 2 were disbanded.
2001
- The eleventh plenary meeting of SC 23 was held in Lugano, Switzerland.
2004
- Merger of SC 11 (Magnetic Recording tape & disc). The title was changed to “Digital Storage Media for Information Interchange”. The maintenance responsibilities of the SC 11 projects were moved to SC 23.
2005
- The twelfth SC 23 plenary meeting was held in Kyoto, Japan
2006
- The title was changed to “Digitally Recorded Media for Information Interchange and Storage” and the scope was modified to:
“Standardization in the field of removable digital storage media (other than hard disks) utilizing optical, holographic and/or magnetic recording technologies for digital information interchange and/or storage, including:
– Algorithms for the lossless compression of data.
– Volume and file structures.
– Methods for determining the life expectancy of digital storage media.”
2007
- The 13th plenary meeting of SC 23 was held in Montreux, Switzerland.
2008
- The 14th plenary meeting of SC 23 was held in Jeju, Korea.
- WG 6: iVDR Cartridge was established. (Convenor: Kei Yamashita)
- Joint Working Group 1 with ISO/TC 42 was established TC 171/SC 1 was joined later. (Co-convenor: Kei Yamashita and .Peter Adelstein).
- The scope of SC 23 was modified to add “methods for error monitoring of error monitoring of digital storage media”
2010
- The 15th SC 23 plenary meeting was held in Winterthur, Switzerland.
- Mr. Kei Yamashita was endorsed as the new Chairman.
2011
- Mr. Osamu Kunisaki was appointed as the WG 6 Convenor.
2012
- The 16th plenary meeting was held in Lisbon, Portugal.
- The scope was modified to add “flash memory technologies”:
- Publication of the new edition of ISO/IEC 1001 (File structure and labeling of magnetic tapes)
2013
- Dr. Peter Adelstein as Co-convenor of JWG 1 was replaced by Mr. Mark Worthington.
- Publication of ISO 9660/Amd.1 (Volume and file structure of CD-ROM)
- Publication of ISO/IEC 30190, 30191, 20192, 30193 (BD writable disk).
SC 23 Plenary Meetings:
Meeting # |
Date |
Place |
Resolutions |
01 |
1988-11-29/12-01 |
Maastricht Netherlands |
SC23N244 |
02 |
1989-10-25/27 |
Tokyo Japan |
SC23N294 |
03 |
1990-10-22/24 |
Washington USA |
SC23N351 |
04 |
1991-09-12/13 |
Sofia Bulgaria |
SC23N434 |
05 |
1993-04-22/23 |
Eindhoven Netherlands |
SC23N551 |
06 |
1994-11-03/04 |
Geneva Switzerland |
SC23N715 |
07 |
1995-10-26/27 |
Seoul Republic of Korea |
SC23N831 |
08 |
1996-10-24/25 |
Berlin Germany |
SC23N943 |
09 |
1997-10-16/17 |
Washington DC. USA |
SC23N1047 |
10 |
1999-10-29 |
Beijing China |
SC23N1155 |
11 |
2001-10-10 |
Lugano Switzerland |
SC23N1218 |
12 |
2005-12-01 |
Kyoto, Japan |
SC23N1381 |
13 |
2007-09-20 |
Montreux, Switzerland |
SC23N1479 |
14 |
2008-12-16/17 |
Jeju, Korea |
SC23N1578 |
15 |
2010-12-03 |
Winterthur, Switzerland |
SC23N1676 |
16 |
2012-06-26 |
Lisbon, Portugal |
SC23N1758 |
Working Groups
|
Status |
Title |
Note: |
WG 1 |
Disbanded |
Permanent Editing Committee |
|
WG 2 |
Disbanded |
Development of Draft Standards for ODCs |
|
WG 3 |
Disbanded |
300 mm WORM ODCs |
|
WG 4 |
Disbanded |
130 mm WORM ODCs |
|
WG 5 |
Disbanded |
356mm WORM ODCS |
|
WG 6 |
Active |
Development of standards for iVDR cartridge |
Established at the 14th SC 23 Plenary Meeting held in Jeju, Korea, 2008-12-17. |
WG 7 (JWG 1) |
Active |
JWG with ISO/TC 42 and ISO/TC 171/SC 1 for Development of optical storage media longevity testing |
Establishment of this JWG was approved at the JTC 1 Plenary Meeting held in Nara, Japan, 2008-11-10/15. |