[fitsbits] proposed changes?

Hi Rob,

Here's the current status of this:
As you probably know, the IAU FITS Working Group appointed a small
technical panel to make recommendations for updating and clarifying the
FITS Standard document. That panel finished drafting it's initiial set
of recommendations about a week ago and presented them to the full IAU
FITS Working Group for an initial assessement, to make sure everything
is in order and ready for wider public comment. We are now fixing up a
couple loose ends, but I hope that the full set of recommendations can
be posted on the FITS Support Office Web site in another week or so.
There will be an anouncement on FITSBITS when they are available for
public comments. The comment period will extend at least until the time
of the ADASS meeting in late September.

Bill Pence

Rob Seaman wrote:

The ADASS abstracts are online (rather early it seems to me - good
work), and some of the usual suspects have a presentation on the
results of the IAU panel:

http://www.adass.org:8080/Conference...vents/banquet/
events/calendar/people/participants/abstract?abstract_id=335

The abstract includes a link that doesn't appear active yet. Anybody
want to comment on when the results will be made public and the
comment period will open? I thought the mandate for the panel was to
update the document, but it sounds like the standard may also
evolve. Or have I missed an announcement?

Rob