[iaufwg] approval of the 'FOREIGN' extension convention

[William Pence]

Dear IAUFWG members,

After a long New Year's break, it is time to get back to some FITS 
related business:

1) None of you raised any major objections to adding the FITS Foreign 
Encapsulation convention to the FITS Convention Registry (see the copy 
of the announcement, below).  Lucio Chiappette, Bob Hanisch, and Mark 
Calabretta suggested a few editorial changes which I did make to 
documents.  I plan to add this convention to the Registry web site at 
the end of next week if there are no further objections or comments 
before then.

2) There are several more FITS conventions that are ready to be 
submitted for the review process to get them entered into the Registry. 
Up to this point I have been pretty much managing this process on my 
own, but I think it would be more democratic to set up a small committee 
to oversee this registration process (i.e., to decide which conventions 
are ready to be submitted, and decide in which order they should be 
submitted for public comment).  If you are willing to serve in this 
role, please let me know (it should not require much of your time).  I 
think it would be sufficient to have 3 or 4 people on this committee to 
provide some oversight and guidance.

regards,
Bill

William Pence wrote:
> Dear IAU FITS Working Group members,
> 
> The 30-day public comment period on the FITS Foreign Encapsulation
> convention ended in early November 2006, so it is now time for a
> final review by the IAUFWG.
> 
> A total of 12 comments regarding this convention were posted on FITSBITS
> during this period. (You can review all the archived messages at
> http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/pipermail/fitsbits/2006-October/thread.html).
> I think the most useful and relevant comments are from Tom McGlynn,
> William Thompson, and  Lucio Chiappetti.  Much of the other messages
> deal with more general issues such as the purpose of the FITS registry
> and are not directly relevant to this specific convention.
> 
> A revised document that describes this convention (in MS Word and PDF
> formats) has been placed on the FITS registry web site at
> http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_registry.html.   In my opinion, this
> revised document is now sufficiently complete so that the convention may
> be officially entered into the Registry.  (Full disclosure requires me
> to say that I helped reformat this document).
> 
> Please review this document for yourself, and let me know if you have
> any further comments or objections about this convention;  If no one has
> any objections, then the FOREIGN file encapsulation convention will be
> officially entered into the registry on Jan 12th, 2007.  (The rules
> allow a 3 week review period,  but I've allowed a little more time
> because of the year-end holidays).
> 
> regards,
> Bill Pence


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