[iaufwg] [fitsbits] Start of the ''Hierarchical Grouping' Public Comment Period

[Lucio Chiappetti]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, William Pence wrote:

> This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on the
> 'Hierarchical Grouping' FITS convention that has been submitted for

I am trying to recover the backlog on my FITS (WG) duties, so I'm looking 
at the pending conventions in the registry. Since formally the Public 
Comment Period for this convention has expired, I thought better to send 
this to iaufwg than to fitsbits.

I must say that a (rather quick) reading of the document is rather 
intimidating, and I wonder whether this is the reason why there have been 
NO comments whatsoever (that I'm aware of) !

Of course I cannot have any valid reason to object to register a 
convention already under production use at a major centre like ISDC.

But probably the documentation would take advantage of some improvements 
(in the sense of helping the reader to understand, and attracting 
potential users ... at the moment I'm utterly confused) :

 - one would be to provide in the example not only the headers of the
   grouping table, but also the content (or an excerpt of the content)
   of such table

 - a second would be to provide some sort of figure or diagram showing
   the structure of a FITS file (group) obeying this convention and the 
   links between the various components.

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