[fitsbits] SDFITS Convention Comment: Hardware Keywords

[Tom Kuiper]

OK, thanks.

I haven't participated in one of these before and so I don't know the 
best way to proceed.  I realize that no one might react to my previous 
e-mail and you wouldn't know if that indicated agreement, disagreement 
or disinterest.  Would it be more helpful if I put my ideas in a 
declarative form?  Then, if there is no reaction, agreement can be 
assumed.  Here's an example:

The TELESCOP keyword is required in the extension header and its 
associated value will be a unique string which identifies the antenna or 
antenna array and can be used as a key to a database of antenna 
parameters.  NRAO will maintain a registry for TELESCOP keyword values.

Regards

Tom

William Pence wrote:
> 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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