[iaufwg] FITS panel recommendations; ready for review?

[William Thompson]

Steve Allen wrote:

> Point 7 of the summary refers to section 4.1.2.3 and the added rule
> that keywords with a value shall not be repeated in a HDU.  Almost
> every FITS file from the optical spectrographs and imagers at Keck has
> always violated this rule.  I don't defend that practice, I simply
> report it.  This new rule would ex post facto declare all those Keck
> files to be non-conforming.

I'm also aware of FITS files which violate this rule.

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