[fitsbits] FITS 64-bit Integer Public Comment Period

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> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 03:51:46PM -0400, William Pence wrote:
> > 
> > Are you in favor of adding support in FITS for BOTH 64-bit integer images 
> > and 64-bit integer table columns?  Should the FITS committees be allowed to 
> > vote on each of these 2 cases separately (and perhaps approve one without 
> > the other), or are these 2 cases so closely linked that they should only be 
> > considered together?

I advocate three separate votes (BITPIX 64, TFORM nK and TFORM 1Qt). 

Still lacking of a strong *intrinsic* reason to support BITPIX 64. 

The Q pointer vote should also include the signed/unsigned stuff I'll 
post about separately.


Also I'm somewhat worried by the limited number of responses (to the 
public comment solicitation and in general. I solicited opinions in my 
national community and got so far none). Too few FITS "developers" 
around ?

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