[fitsbits] [EXT] DOI for FITS standard document?

[Malcolm J. Currie]

Glad that I'm not alone at losing track of which body in the IAU is now 
responsible for FITS.

Yes a DOI would be welcome.  The hard part is finding who will curate 
the Standard V4.0 (and possibly later versions).  These days a DOI comes 
with publication.  Is the current Standard significantly different from 
the last published version that a journal would accept it?

Does it really matter under which banner it would reside, as long as it 
persisted for a long time to come?  The leading data curators in this 
area would include CADC, CDS, HEASARC, and MAST.  Would these 
organisations be happy to curate a document without data?  Surely they 
would, given that it's tiny in comparison to the data, and the document 
describes the data format used by most of the data stored on those 
platforms.

If there's no clear route through the IAU to obtain a DOI, it's 
pragmatic for Dick to inquire of MAST.

Malcolm