gzipped images in SIAP 1.0

[Doug Tody]

On Wed, 23 May 2007, Rob Seaman wrote:

> The point I was trying to make was that a tile compressed FITS files remains 
> an image.  It is represented (that is, "encoded") as a bintable.  Any FITS 
> can be application/fits.  An image/fits says "I represent a single image".  A 
> content encoding could then be applied to that to turn the stream of bytes 
> into anything else, including (potentially) a bintable.

I agree, a tile compressed image is still logically an image, but
probably we can only call it a image/fits once this feature becomes
an actual FITS standard (as opposed to a convention).

 	- Doug