[fitsbits] SDFITS Convention Comment: Hardware Keywords

[William Pence]

Tom Kuiper wrote:
> William Pence wrote:
>> This is to announce the start of the Public Comment Period on the
>> SDFITS binary table convention that is used for interchange of single
>> disk data in radio astronomy...
>>   
> Bill, when does this Public Comment Period end?  I'm now working through 
> the process of writing the results of a particular series of 
> observations into SDFITS.  It'll be the first step in trying to get all 
> the DSN spectroscopic runs to produce compatible SDFITS files.  There 
> will be issues along the way.  I expect it'll take a few months.

The comment period lasts at least 30 days, but there is no upper time 
limit.  If there is a reasonable prospect that there will be continuing 
developments regarding a particular convention, then it can remain open 
for whatever time it takes to reach a conclusion.

Bill
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