The system we outlined (in very basic terms) is layered, with each layer providing services and controls critical to various stakeholders. This layered control allows many different conversations to happen between rights holders, patrons, and librarians. This architecture creates an unbundling of the functions currently associated with libraries (and other organizations such as business archives, museums, etc). Instead, in this system, preservation is a process that involves many stakeholders at various levels.

These conversations can have many different outcomes, depending on the desires and requirements of the participants, and the outcomes can change over time as those desires and requirements change.