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Old December 5th 07, 08:47 PM posted to sci.astro.fits
William Pence
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Default [fitsbits] Status of New FITS Standard

This is an update on the status of the proposed new Standard document
that precisely defines the required format for FITS data files. A
draft of the proposed new version 3.0 of the document was prepared by a
technical panel appointed by the IAU FITS Working Group (IAU FWG) .
This draft was made available for public comment from July through
October 2007. The technical panel then produced a second draft,
version 3.0a, in response to the public comments. This latest draft, as
well as a summary of the public comments and the technical panel's
response, is available at http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_draft.html.

Earlier this week the 4 regional FITS committees that advise the IAU FWG
(North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia/New Zealand) were asked to
review and vote on this proposed new Standard document by mid-January
2008. Assuming that the regional committees generally endorse the
proposed changes, the IAU FWG will then conduct a final review and vote
on whether or not to accept it as the new FITS Standard.

If you have any further comments about the proposed changes to the FITS
Standard document or have suggestions for improving the document, please
post them here on the FITSBITS email list (or linked sci.astro.fits
newsgroup). Alternatively, you may send the comments to me or any other
IAU FWG member. The IAU FWG will then consider all the comments during
it's final review of the document.

Bill Pence
(on behalf of the IAU FWG)
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