[iaufwg] FITS Standard 3.0 is Approved.

[Ray.Norris at csiro.au]

I'd just like to second Bob's thank-you to the FITS WG and especially to
Bill for his skill, tact, and diplomacy (not to mention perseverance) in
getting these standards through to completion. 

Well done Bill!

Cheers

Ray

Ray Norris
President, IAU Commission 5

CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility
PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: iaufwg-bounces at donar.cv.nrao.edu 
> [mailto:iaufwg-bounces at donar.cv.nrao.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Hanisch
> Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 10:31
> To: William Pence; IAU-FWG
> Subject: Re: [iaufwg] FITS Standard 3.0 is Approved.
> 
> I'd like to extend a public thank-you to Bill and the committee that
> reworked the standard for their commitment and perseverance.  
> As we have
> learned from FITS and VO, standards work is not easy.  
> Sometimes we obsess a
> bit about getting it "right".  Voltaire said "the best is the 
> enemy of the
> good enough."  None of our standards are perfect, and we 
> would be foolish to
> push too far to make them so, given how many things are 
> changing in the
> background.
> 
> I particularly applaud Bill for his diplomacy, yet willful push to get
> things finished.  It is a delicate balance, and I detected no slips.
> 
> Thanks to all!
> Bob
> 
> 
> On 7/9/08 4:51 PM, "William Pence" <William.Pence at nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
> > Dear colleagues,
> > 
> > I am very pleased to announce that the 3.0 version of the 
> FITS Standard
> > document has been officially approved by the IAU FITS working group.
> > The current voting tally is 17 'Yes' votes, with 5 members not yet
> > voting.  I expect that more votes will trickle in during 
> the next week,
> > but in any case, the current number of Yes votes exceeds the 3/4
> > majority required to ensure passage.
> > 
> > I have made this new version of the Standard available on the FITS
> > Support office website at 
> http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_standard.html.
> > Most of the previous versions of the standard are also 
> available on that
> > page.
> > 
> > This should finish our work on this long project that 
> started in January
> > 2007.  I would like to thank everyone in the FWG for their efforts
> > during this time in reviewing and commenting on the early 
> drafts of the
> > document.  Special thanks go to Betty, Clive, Dick, and 
> Lucio who served
> > on the technical panel and endured the barrage of more than 
> 300 email
> > messages that were exchanged in order to reach agreement on the many
> > technical issues!
> > 
> > regards,
> > Bill
> 
> 
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