From: <mcalabre_at_email.protected>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:46:30 +1100

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<a name="start" accesskey="j" id="start"></a>Greetings,
The FITS specification has recently been updated and the regional
committees have been asked to approve it. While the spec is a rather
lengthy document, the changes are summarized separately and it should
not take more than an hour or so to review it. The particular
documents are
Summary of Recommended Changes (some were later changed or withdrawn):
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/draft/summary.pdf
Technical Panel's response to the public comments:
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/draft/pubcomments.pdf
The full 3.0a spec with colour-coded differences from 2.1:
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/draft/diff30a_21b.pdf
Cheers, Mark
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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:20:11 -0500 (Tue 10:20 EST)
From: William Pence <pence_at_milkyway.<!--nospam-->gsfc.nasa.gov>
To: IAU-FWG <iaufwg_at_nrao.<!--nospam-->edu>
Subject: [iaufwg] Regional FITS Committee review of the new FIT Standard
   [This note is primarily intended for the chairmen of the
   4 regional FITS committees, but I'm distributing it to
   the entire IAU FWG for information.]
I would now like to call on the chairmen of the 4 regional FITS
committees to conduct a review and vote on the proposed new FITS
standard document. As a reminder to everyone, the 4 committees and
their chairman are:
   North America: Arnold Rots
   Europe: Preben Grosbol
   Japn: Osamu Kanamitsu
   Australia/NZ Mark Calabretta
Under our IAU FWG voting rules (at
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/iaufwg/iaufwg_rules.html) the nominal time
period for this review is 3 weeks, but I think we should extend this to
allow for the end of year holidays, and thus ask that the voting be
completed by January 14, 2008 if possible.
All the necessary review material is available on the following web
page: http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_draft.html
In particular, I suggest that the committees concentrate their reviews
on the following 3 documents:
   1. Summary of Recommended Changes, dated 2007 July 23.
      This document summarizes most of the changes that were
      initially recommended by the Technical Panel.
   2. The Technical Panel's response to the public comments that
      were received from 23 July to 22 October 2007.
   3. The color-coded "differences" document that shows in detail
      all the differences between the latest new draft (version 3a)
      and the previous official version 2.1b.
Each regional FITS committee should conduct a formal vote on whether or
not they endorse these proposed changes to the FITS Standard document.
  A vote of approval requires that at least 2/3 of the committee members
cast a vote, and at least 2/3 of the votes must be in favor of the
proposed changes.
In addition to this overall vote on the proposed changes, the committees
may also submit comments or suggestions for improving the new Standard
document. The IAU FWG will consider these comments during its final
review of the document.
regards,
Bill Pence

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