<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Michael Nordman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michaeln@google.com">michaeln@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">A mandate from on high that says 'shall store forever and ever' will be promptly ignored because its impossible to make that guarantee.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's not the proposed mandate. The proposed mandate is "thou shalt not discard successfully-written data without explicit user action", which seems implementable to me. Note that this doesn't make claims like "the hard drive will not fail", and it doesn't claim that the UA is required to allow the app to write whatever data it wants in the first place.</div>
<div><br></div><div>PK</div></div>