Sidebar on PDF/A for Archiving
To be open standard, not proprietary to Adobe
Constrained for sustainability
No encryption (transparency, technical protection)
No audio or video embedded
No Javascript or executable file launches
All fonts must be embedded and also must be legally embeddable
for unlimited, universal rendering (disclosure, self-documentation)
Colorspaces must be specified in a device independent manner
(external dependencies)
Embedded metadata must be in XMP -- XML-based
(transparency, self-documentation)
LC & other DLF participants involved in development