[fitsbits] Start of the 'INHERIT' Public Comment Period

[William Pence]

This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on the
'INHERIT' FITS convention that has been submitted by the Nelson Zarate
and Perry Greenfield for inclusion in the 'Registry of FITS Conventions'
that is maintained by the IAU FITS Working Group.  This is the 4th in a
growing series of conventions submitted for inclusion in the Registry.

A document describing this convention and a sample FITS file that uses
it are available for public review and comment from the FITS registry
web page at

         http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_registry.html

Under this convention, the presence of the keyword INHERIT = T in an
extension header indicates that the extension should inherit the
keywords from the primary header (except for the mandatory and
commentary keywords)

Comments may be posted here on the FITSBITS mail exploder or the
sci.astro.fits newsgroup.  Minor typographical issues may be sent
directly to the authors of the convention.

Bill Pence
(on behalf of the IAU FITS Working Group)
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