[fitsbits] updates to the FITS standard document

[Mark Calabretta]

> From: Erik Bray [embray at stsci.edu]
> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 6:18 PM
> To: van Nieuwenhoven, Richard
> Subject: Re: [fitsbits] updates to the FITS standard document


> , or that there is really only one version of FITS (the
> former is unhelpful, while the latter is downright dishonest).

You forgot to mention that the standard itself proclaims a version
number on the title page!

Beats me why there's such resistance to versioning FITS data files, but
if you don't like the standard you can always create a new convention!

> #ASDF 0.1.0

So who will be the first to write a FITS <-> ASDF translator?

Regards,
Mark Calabretta