While I’m sure the good people at Natlib are on top of it,
but seeing as this is being discussed to the n’th degree. My question
would be, who will hold this archived material long term ? I sincerely hope it
will be physically (and diversely) stored and served in New Zealand not stored
at a faceless overseas company that can change ownership, collapse or be
otherwise invaded. If we are paying to have this material preserved (which IMHO
is entirely appropriate), it needs to be here in a government owned (or suitably
contracted and legally covered private) repository. This is the only way to
ensure that it will survive long term.