WFC: Year-2000 issue (again)

[Arnold Rots]

> 
> Speaking as an ex officio member of the WFC, and as chair of the NASA
> FITS Technical Panel, I would like to urge that two more things be done
> before this proposal is voted on:
> 
> 1) Any of the material from items 1-4 that is key to the understanding
> of the proposal must be included in the proposal explicitly.  Most of
> these points are already incorporated, but some are not.  But, for
> example, item 4 talks about the Z qualifier as being discouraged, but
> this qualifier is nowhere mentioned in the actual proposal.  The proposal
> needs to stand on its own.

The proposal does stand on its own; the intro part only explains
what changes I made to the original proposal, but as such is not
part of the proposal.  The amended proposal itself does not contain
any reference to the Z qualifier.

> 
> 2) The various time systems, as represented by UTC, TAI, ET, etc., need
> to be defined more fully in the proposal.  That is, a mapping from the
> abbreviations to full names should be spelled out, and a reference to
> the Astronomical Almanac for full explanations should be included.
> 
> Bob
> 

Fair enough; I'll do that.

Thanks,

  - Arnold