[iaufwg] Registering the FOREIGN extension name

[Steve Allen]

On Wed 2006-10-04T16:50:57 -0400, William Pence hath writ:
> This registration process was apparently never done for the FOREIGN
> extension (so slap on the wrist to the KPNO IRAF Group :-).

This raises the question of how some of the current entries got there.

Having been through the FITS, IANA, and IETF process I find myself asking:
Is the XTENSION registration process described anywhere?

When is it just namespace reservation, akin to non-top-level MIME
types with IANA, and when is it something that deserves analysis
by committees?

My immediate impression is that any use of R and L and D and C might
just be namespace.  S is clearly under the purview of the established
process for the standard.

Also, it might be nice for the XTENSION registration page to specify
more details about the existing entries:

DUMP            who, where (in what context or reference), and when?
FILEMARK        where and when?
VGROUP          where and when?
FITS            already has these features

> I also plan to make 2 changes to the description of the 'Status' parameter
> at the bottom of that web page:

I don't object, but in the absence of a defined process I'm not entirely
sure what it means to make the changes.

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