[fitsbits] Start of the FITS MIME type Public Comment Period

[William Pence]

This is a reminder that the final day for submitting comments on the FITS 
MIME type proposal is tomorrow, Wednesday June 16.

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:06:27PM -0400, William Pence wrote:
> ANNOUNCEMENT:   Start of the Public Comment Period on the
>                            FITS MIME type proposal
> 
> This is to announce the official start of the 4-week formal Public Comment
> Period on the proposal to register 2 new Internet MIME media types for FITS
> data files: "image/fits" and "application/fits".
> 
> The latest 17-May-2004 draft of the MIME type proposal is available for
> comment at http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/fits/mime/.  The draft is available
> there in postscript, PDF, and plain text formats.  Listings of the
> differences with the previous 2 drafts of the document are also available.
> 
> Please submit your comments here on the sci.astro.fits newsgroup, or on the
> related FITSBITS moderated mail list.  If you previously submitted comments
> that have not been incorporated in this latest draft, and if you feel that
> they still need to be addressed, then please submit the comments again.
> 
> The previous informal discussions about this FITS MIME proposal on the
> 'fitsmime' mail list at NRAO may be viewed in the archive at
> http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/pipermail/fitsmime/.  Other related postings here
> on the FITSBITS mail list may be viewed in the archive at
> http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/pipermail/fitsbits/.  In particular, see the
> postings in December 2002, June 2003, and March 2004,
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