# ISO/IEC 16963:2015 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards

For ISO/IEC 16963:2015, item title is Information technology — Digitally recorded media for information interchange and storage — Test method for the estimation of lifetime of optical disks for long-term data storage; status code is 9599; successor is ISO/IEC 16963:2017; withdrawn / published date is 2015-03-17, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05.

- **Identifier:** ISO/IEC 16963:2015 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Item title:** Information technology — Digitally recorded media for information interchange and storage — Test method for the estimation of lifetime of optical disks for long-term data storage _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Successor:** ISO/IEC 16963:2017
- **Withdrawn / published date:** 2015-03-17 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 62781,IS,,ISO/IEC 16963:2015,Information technology — Digitally recorded media for information interchange and storage — Test method for the estimation of lifetime of optical disks for long-term data storage,Technologies de l'information — Supports pour l'échange d'informations et le stockage enregistrés numériquement — Méthode d'essai pour l'estimation de la durée de vie de disques optiques pour le stockage à long terme,2015-03-17,2,['35.220.30'],ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 23,9599,[58045],[71159],['en'],53,"<p>ISO/IEC 16963:2015 specifies an accelerated aging test method for estimating the lifetime of the retrievability of information stored on recordable or rewritable optical disks.</p><p>The method

## Source

- https://isopublicstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/opendata/_latest/iso_deliverables_metadata/csv/iso_deliverables_metadata.csv

Last verified: 2026-08-05. Review by: 2027-02-01.
Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).