We should at least have this on the table. I think repositories are good for preservation, but the question here is whether they should go much further than they currently do in attempting to invest now to combat the effects of later technology and designated community knowledge base change...
I'm pretty disappointed that this one has dropped so low. OK, we are mostly being a bit picky about the exact wording of the "ideas", and this one may perhaps not be best expressed. I can understand that people find the "full OAIS preservation system" a bit hard to swallow. But in fact, much of OAIS is actually about the things that repositories do anyway: ingest, storage management, metadata management, dissemination. And repositories are definitely in the "persistent storage" space, if not in the "preserve for ever", cross my fingers and hope to die space.
At the very least we should agree that a repository is designed to provide continuing access in the near to mid term!
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