[iaufwg] [fitsbits] Start of the ''MBFITS" Public Comment Period

[William Pence]

Doug Tody wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2007, Robert Hanisch wrote [regarding MBFITS]:
>> ... To me, though, these are not
>> conventions in the sense of generic schemes for encoding information 
>> ...which are independent of the type of instrumentation used to
>> acquire the data.
> 
> I agree that data-oriented conventions are a different type of
> convention than a system-oriented convention such as a compression
> scheme, foreign file encapsulation, etc.  Perhaps we should add the
> concept of the convention type.

I agree that it would be useful to categorize the conventions in the 
registry in various ways, but I think we should wait a year or so before 
attempting to do this.  It will be much easier, and more productive I 
think, to wait until we have 20 - 30 conventions in the registry; then 
it should be clearer how they can be subdivided into various categories. 
  For now, I think our priority should be to simply get more 
conventions documented in the registry, without diverting too much time 
now in debating different classification schemes.

Bill
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