I-D Action: draft-nike-cis-clay-tablet-00.txt

Internet-Draft draft-nike-cis-clay-tablet-00.txt is now available.

   Title:   Ceramic Immutable Storage (CIS): A Write-Once Archival Format Using Impressed and Kiln-Fired Clay
   Author:  Bellona Nike
   Name:    draft-nike-cis-clay-tablet-00.txt
   Pages:   40
   Dates:   2026-08-14

Abstract:

   This document specifies Ceramic Immutable Storage (CIS), a write-once
   archival storage format in which digital data is impressed into
   plastic clay by a pin-configurable roller, rendered permanent by kiln
   firing, and retained on a shelved rack.

   CIS is motivated by a specific and increasingly common failure mode:
   the loss of data to an authenticated software process acting outside
   its operator's intent.  Every widely deployed "immutable" storage
   tier is immutable by policy, and every policy is enforced by software
   that some credential, defect, or sufficiently determined automated
   agent can override.  CIS relocates the immutability guarantee from
   policy to physics.  The commit operation in CIS is an irreversible
   mineralogical phase change, and no inverse operation exists for any
   actor, mechanical or digital.

   This document defines the substrate, the encoding geometry, the frame
   format, the forward error correction scheme, the firing profile that
   constitutes commit, the rack addressing model, and the optical read
   path.  It also documents, at length, the substantial costs of this
   approach.

The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nike-cis-clay-tablet/

There is also an HTML version available at:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-nike-cis-clay-tablet-00.html

Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts


_______________________________________________
I-D-Announce mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]