What is ISO/IEC 30192 about?
ISO/IEC 30192 specifies the mechanical, physical, and optical characteristics of a 120 mm rewritable optical disk with a capacity of 25.0 Gbytes or 50.0 Gbytes.
ISO/IEC 30192 specifies the quality of the recorded and unrecorded signals, the format of the data, and the recording method, thereby allowing for information interchange by means of such disks. User data can be written, read, and overwritten many times using a reversible method. This disk is identified as a BD rewritable disk.
ISO/IEC 30192 provides for the interchange of disks between drives. Together with a standard for volume and file structure, it provides for full data interchange between data processing systems.
Who is ISO/IEC 30192 for?
ISO/IEC 30192 on Digitally recorded media for information interchange and storage is useful for:
- IT Companies
- Cloud Engineers
- Data storage device manufacturing companies
- Data analytics companies
- Data processing engineers
Why should you use ISO/IEC 30192?
The BDA sent project proposals for the international standardization of four formats, as it was needed for keeping the compatibility of the removable medium in the market, and to check that the disks and devices can satisfy the specifications.
ISO/IEC 30192 specifies the two related but different types of this disk, conditions for conformance, environments in which the disk is to be operated and stored, mechanical and physical characteristics of the disk, which allow mechanical interchange between data processing systems.
ISO/IEC 30192 specifies the format of the information on the disk, including the physical disposition of the tracks and sectors, error-correcting codes and coding methods used, characteristics of the signals recorded on the disk, which enable data processing systems to read data from the disk.
ISO/IEC 30192 describes the quality of the recorded and unrecorded signals in the format of the data, and the recording method, thereby allowing for information interchange by means of such disks. 
What’s changed since the last update?
BS ISO/IEC 30192:2021 supersedes BS ISO/IEC 30192:2016, which has been withdrawn. BS ISO/IEC 30192:2021 has been editorially revised.
