[wfc] Results of the WGAS (North-American) FITS Committee vote on 64-bit issues

[Arnold Rots]

I have the pleasure of announcing the results of the vote by the WGAS
(North-American) FITS Committee on the 64-bit integer issues that were
sent to the regional committees for their vote:

1)  Do you favor adding support to FITS for primary arrays and image
extensions containing  64-bit integer pixels, with BITPIX = 64?

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    Yes       : 13
    No        :  0
    Abstain   :  0
    not voted :  3
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    Total     : 16

2) Do you favor adding support to FITS for 64-bit descriptor 'Q' columns in
binary tables (analogous to the 32-bit 'P' descriptor columns).  

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    Yes       : 13
    No        :  0
    Abstain   :  0
    not voted :  3
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    Total     : 16

3) Do you favor adding support to FITS for columns of 64-bit integer values
in binary tables, with TFORMn = 'K'?

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    Yes       : 13
    No        :  0
    Abstain   :  0
    not voted :  3
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    Total     : 16

4) Do you support changing the definition of the 'P' descriptor pointers
from 'signed integers' to 'unsigned integers'. 

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    Yes       : 11
    No        :  0
    Abstain   :  2
    not voted :  3
  ----------------
    Total     : 16

I certify hereby that the WGAS FITS committee has approved all four
64-bit integer issues.

  - Arnold Rots

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Arnold H. Rots                                Chandra X-ray Science Center
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory                tel:  +1 617 496 7701
60 Garden Street, MS 67                              fax:  +1 617 495 7356
Cambridge, MA 02138                             arots at head.cfa.harvard.edu
USA                                     http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/
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