Fw: [fitswcs] Start of the WCS Paper III Public Comment Period

[Robert Hanisch]

VO folks should be aware of the new FITS WCS proposal for spectral
coordinates.  Sorry if this is a repeat of mail you've already received!

Cheers,
Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Pence" <William.D.Pence at nasa.gov>
To: "FITSBITS" <fitsbits at nrao.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 5:56 PM
Subject: [fitswcs] Start of the WCS Paper III Public Comment Period


> ANNOUNCEMENT:  START OF FORMAL PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD
>
>
> This is to announce the official start of the 4-week formal Public Comment
> Period on the 3rd in a series of papers on FITS world coordinate systems
> entitled, "Representations of spectral coordinates in FITS" written by
Eric
> Greisen, Mark Calabretta, Frank Valdes, and Steve Allen.  This Public
> Comment Period is the first step in the process of approving this paper as
> part of the official FITS Standard.
>
> This important paper describes detailed conventions for defining spectral
> coordinates involving wavelength, frequency, and velocity in FITS files.
> Links to the latest 04-October-2004 draft of this paper are available from
> http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~egreisen/ and the latest version also may be
> obtained directly in PDF and Postscript formats at
>
> http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~egreisen/scs.ps     (postscript)
> http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~egreisen/scs.ps.gz  (gzipped postscript)
> http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~egreisen/scs.pdf    (PDF)
>
> This paper has gone through many revisions over several years, so as an
aid
> to readers of previous versions, the most recent changes to the document
are
> shown in red text and the somewhat earlier modifications made in February
> 2004 are shown in blue text.
>
> Please review this paper carefully and post any comments, criticisms, or
> suggestions on the sci.astro.fits newsgroup, or on the related FITSBITS
> moderated mail list.  (You can subscribe to FITSBITS at
> http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/fitsbits). If you previously
> submitted comments about this paper that have not been incorporated in
this
> latest draft, and if you feel that they still need to be addressed, then
> please submit the comments again.
>
> There have been extensive previous discussions of this paper on the
> 'fitswcs' mail list at NRAO.  The archive of these discussions may be
viewed
> at http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/fitswcs.
>
> ==================================================================
> Background information on the FITS approval process
>
> Under the "Rules and Procedures" of the IAU FITS Working Group, the first
> step in the official approval process of any FITS proposal will be a
formal
> Public Comment Period to take place on the sci.astro.fits newsgroup
> (and on the moderated FITSBITS mail list that mirrors all on-topic
> postings).   At the end of this public comment period the regional FITS
> committees (North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia/New Zealand) will
> then vote on the proposal.  Following that the IAU FITS Working Group will
> then conduct a final vote to approve or disapprove the proposal.  These
> rules and procedures are more fully described at
> http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/iaufwg/iaufwg_rules.html.
>
>
> William Pence
> Chairman, IAU FITS Working Group
> -- 
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