[fitsmime] draft text of RFC ready for review and approval

William Pence pence@tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu, 29 May 2003 14:02:07 -0400


Steve Allen wrote:
> 
> The main web page is
> http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/fits/mime/
> The draft itself and the comments on the draft are linked there.
> 
> I believe it is reasonable to set a goal of submitting the draft to
> the RFC editor in late June or early July.
> 
> I would like to receive comments from FITSMIME now.

My only comment is about the following statement on page 15: "The standard
provides means to assert that some data arrays contain complex numbers."

I assume this refers to the use of CTYPEn = 'COMPLEX' in section 5.4 of the
first WCS paper [WCS1].  Can you add a reference to this, since this usage
is likely to be rather obscure to many readers of this MIME document?

Bill
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