[fitsbits] proposed changes?

[William Pence]

Hi Rob,

Here's the current status of this:
As you probably know, the IAU FITS Working Group appointed a small 
technical panel to make recommendations for updating and clarifying the 
FITS Standard document.  That panel finished drafting it's initiial set 
of recommendations about a week ago and  presented them to the full IAU 
FITS Working Group for an initial assessement, to make sure everything 
is in order and ready for wider public comment.  We are now fixing up a 
couple loose ends, but I hope that the full set of recommendations can 
be posted on the FITS Support Office Web site  in another week or so.  
There will be an anouncement on FITSBITS when they are available for 
public comments.  The comment period will extend at least until the time 
of the ADASS meeting in late September.

Bill Pence

Rob Seaman wrote:

>The ADASS abstracts are online (rather early it seems to me - good  
>work), and some of the usual suspects have a presentation on the  
>results of the IAU panel:
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>	http://www.adass.org:8080/Conferences/2007/Venue/events/banquet/ 
>events/calendar/people/participants/abstract?abstract_id=335
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>The abstract includes a link that doesn't appear active yet.  Anybody  
>want to comment on when the results will be made public and the  
>comment period will open?  I thought the mandate for the panel was to  
>update the document, but it sounds like the standard may also  
>evolve.  Or have I missed an announcement?
>
>Rob
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