[iaufwg] IAUFWG review of the new draft FITS Standard

[Mark Calabretta]

On Tue 2008/03/18 16:54:37 EDT, William Thompson wrote
in a message to: William Pence <William.Pence at nasa.gov>
and copied to: IAU-FWG <iaufwg at nrao.edu>,
     Arnold Rots <arots at head.cfa.harvard.edu>

>> If this is what is being proposed, then it sounds to me like a major 
>> change to FITS that should be discussed as a separate proposal, rather 
>> than including it as part of the current exercise to simply update and 
>> clarify the wording of the FITS Standard.
>
>I agree.  I think that time needs the same kind of careful analysis that was 
>given to spectroscopy in the 3rd WCS paper.  It's a very complex subject.

I agree.  This issue is in the domain of the WCS paper on time and
shouldn't be preempted elsewhere.

Mark Calabretta