[iaufwg] New draft FITS Standard

[forveill at cfht.hawaii.edu]

On Mon, November 26, 2007 1:21 pm, Dick Shaw wrote:
> Recognizing such a type sounds potentially useful. But I suspect it would
> be better to finalize v3.0 soon in nearly its current form, and defer new
> technical discussions such as this (and, say, CHECKSUM and tiled
> compression) to v3.1.
>
I am for now not convinced that a new type is necessary/useful, but
independently of the merit of the idea I concur with Dick that this
would be the wrong phase to consider it.